HAS FANTASY GOTTEN BETTER OR WORSE? 🐉 a retrospective on the state of fantasy

then a lot of books in the middle the bright swword a song to drown Rivers the tainted cup the lost story and map of the otherlands

Ari Adney I would say this one was on the lower end of the middle all great I really enjoyed these just not necessarily all-time favorites

while I have some things about it I don't love and certain things I wish had been expanded on and actually I wish we'd had more perspective Ives still really feel like the themes in this were exceptional and I would like more books to hit those themes and Tackle them

bookshops and bone dust similar to Legends and lattes I also really enjoyed this one I would say leans toward the higher end of this middle category as I quite liked this but not necessarily an all-time favorite

then a lot of books in the middle the bright swword a song to drown Rivers the tainted cup the lost story and map of the otherlands

daughter of the Moon Goddess I enjoyed this one

for the favorites though we have encyclopedia fairies and fragile threads of power

I know I had encyclopedia a fairies up a little bit higher from 2023 this one ultimately I like just a little bit less which is why it's here in the middle

Legends and lattes came out that year and was nominated that year really enjoyed Legends and lattes

then a lot of books in the middle the bright swword a song to drown Rivers the tainted cup the lost story and map of the otherlands

I have discussed before why pessi didn't work for me completely understand the experience that is that book I recognize why it's so powerful and mean to a lot of others but it wasn't for me

the loved ones to this day are some of my favorites for example rhythm of war the fourth book in the stormi archive I really quite adore that

I really liked sh who became the sun really enjoyed that one

I really enjoyed this I'm a big fan of te King Fisher and for me this was te king fisher at her bestest so sorceress comes to call absolutely loved

these ones both just were kind of they were okay I wouldn't say I really enjoyed them but I didn't dislike them necessarily to a tremendous degree

then we had Amina Al serafi once again fun great word to describe this one such a great action adventure story

probably the lowest of the middle bordered on being in the M but at the end of the day I did I didn't dislike this reading experience and I know this is different for a lot of people but that would be the atlas 6

I really enjoy Empire of gold that is the third book in the Shakra wordy series The DAV of w Trilogy really quite loved that as well

I like the time that be Schwab took I feel like everything was building there was always something in intriguing happening there's new characters you're returning to old characters and then just built and built and built until you got a really great explosive ending and now I can't wait for the second one

on a personal level I just tend to not be as big of a fan of stories that are more generational and how they're told and also are more rooted in magical realism those are things that I just in general it's not necessarily this book in particular it's just my tastes those tend to not line up with my taste

Addy laroo which I definitely can see a lot of the criticisms for that but the highs of that book I really did think were incredible and it has stuck with me and just that feeling of wanting to be remembered and a lot of the themes that go into that I thought were quite powerful and moving

I still thought that the book was incredibly fast-paced it was explosive it was fun there was big reveals and I did enjoy the reading experience

really enjoyed shadow of the Gods definitely

then a lot of books in the middle the bright swword a song to drown Rivers the tainted cup the lost story and map of the otherlands

I did I just found that story to be so darling and it's funny because I do think there's a lot of parallels to it and house in the Cilan sea it's just this one really worked for me

this one it was a little extra sweet for me and while I really appreciate the themes I just can't really say that this one pulled at my heart the way it did for a lot of other people

I think Tres is so cute and so darling and so fun

then we have the ones that are in the category which would be under the whispering door and then orchidia deina also is in this one for me

I only had one in the bottom which would be the warm hands of ghosts as this one didn't work for me in a lot of ways

I do really like this book I want to make clear that like I said you can go all the way up to four stars within this rating maybe inching into a little higher