20+ NEW FANTASY BOOKS OF 2023 ~ most underhyped, great sequels, unpopular opinions, and more 📚

the bone magic and the way the magic works in the story in general I thought was really cool definitely a great book for The Fall season

for me I think if you like a lot of angst then you will like this but if you find that The Angst sometimes feels odd when it comes to the amount of actual enemies that they are initially then maybe it won't work

I quite liked it I thought it was very cinematic I understand that it's because it's so short it might not be quite a satisfying story for a lot of people but I quite liked it

it's very hard-hitting it was absolutely fantastically done it's a very different setting than I'm accustomed to in fantasy and I think that it's very unique and it's definitely very well receiving of hype I would say

in this new one we are less so I think leaning into things that are really scary and really creepy in an obvious way and it's more so like when you really sit back and think what's being done it is really disturbing so I'd say it's more disturbing than scary

I have consistently described this one as feeling like cyber Punk anime it's really over the top it's very cool it has lots of like awesome Vibes

I'm going to have to give this to spy family volume 10 I think this is the best volume of the series thus far and for that reason I'm like it's not just that it was a good sequel It's that it's the best they had the best moment in the story for me

it starts really slow it kind of has to establish itself as a new story while still pulling you into it from the previous book so it almost feels like middle book syndrome despite being the first in a new series but I quite liked it

it's very short the writing is incredibly dense but there's a lot of commentary on how fairy tales are not really what we have thought of them before

the reason that this one didn't really work for me is because I do think it's so incredibly tied to other things in the cosmere and things that we've yet to really see that for me it felt like reading a sequel that I didn't have the other books for yet

I really enjoyed the examination of trauma and how it can weigh a person down and how when you don't have anybody seeing you as anything but perfect it really makes you feel very isolated

the deluxe edition of the fourth installment came out and it was in my opinion a masterful ending the story is very dark and it feels like a grim fairy tale it's confusing it's a little convoluted but it's also incredibly wholesome and sweet and heartbreaking at the same time

for me I thought thematically there was a lot of commentary on the way people will hold responsible the actions of others and they will decide it's their fault and in actuality we have to learn to give ourselves Grace and forgiveness and not hold ourselves responsible for the actions of others

I do think that it is very meaningful very impactful it is definitely very slow very Slice of Life in a lot of ways but I still thought the themes the way they were executed was great

I really adored Yumi and the nightmare painter