25 FANTASY STANDALONES ✨ RANKED ✨

this is maybe borderline middle grade but I love it and I wanted to talk about it and I think it's so fun and so cute and also it in typical te king fisher fashion is very funny and cheeky

do I like it as much as sorcery of thorns and Enchantment of ravens which are also written by Margaret Rogerson I'm like I don't know if I like him as much and spoiler alert those other two are in the second tier

there's a lot of twists and turns but this one there's it leaves off in a place where you're like I need to know what happens next and I don't know that I ever will

it was kind of easy to place and it's purely because it was too like something else for me to think of it as its own thing

I really enjoyed the way in which it felt tangible in a sense it felt very much like she was putting you there along side the main character but I can't quite say I felt especially connected emotionally

it was for me probably the least memorable book on this list

I was just taken a back by what ended up transpiring in this for some reason I thought things would turn out different than they ended up turning out my expectations of where I thought the story would go were not at all accurate and I liked being surprised by that

I really liked the setting that was established here and I felt like there were certainly details about it that I was drawn to but the execution of the plot I think it just meandered a little too much for me

I just feel like it could have been a lot more frightening than it ended up being and it also just kind of meandered quite a bit so it was I mean it was fine that's the thing is I don't have negative feelings but I don't really have super positive ones for it either

this one I thought had a good am of it while still having this kind of grim fairy tale feel that you also found yourself feeling like well parts of it are very lovely and beautiful but parts of it are very like this dark Manor by the Sea and there's creepy things happening and also your sense of reality gets warped in the book which I really liked

it leaves off in a place that sort of makes you feel as though it needs a sequel just the very last the very last portion of this and as a result I've kind of always waited to see if we're going to get one and I don't know if we ever will and so it does result in the story not feeling like it was completely finished

I really liked that she was sort of out of her element and was trying to make the most of her situation she was trying to be a good ruler and I enjoyed it quite a lot when I read it's just been years since I picked this up

there were aspects of this that I didn't like however there is one Element to it in particular that is so incredibly moving that I still really respect this book and that part really devastated me

this is one that is only really here because it falls into a lot of tropes we've seen before

small favor it's is one of my favorite horror fantasy stories I do think that the end gets a little out there but that whole feeling throughout the story of who's behind what there's this small town feel and you're wondering is this person exaggerating are they telling the truth are they just spreading gossip and there's like these little tiny creepy things that happen and it just builds and builds and builds and builds and I had so much fun with it

do I like it as much as sorcery of thorns and Enchantment of ravens which are also written by Margaret Rogerson I'm like I don't know if I like him as much and spoiler alert those other two are in the second tier

lovely standalone it is basically a studio gii film in book form it's so creative I just feel like it's so Lush and beautiful the imagery is fantastically woven into the story The themes are really beautiful

I really appreciated what Marie Lou did with this I think the themes were extremely powerful and devastating and it was very beautifully written

how it plays out is so unique and so different however it is also a little convoluted and I definitely think that it could have benefited from some aspects of it being a little more straightforward

this book is fun it's absolutely ridiculous though it's so ridiculous it's not something that moves Me by any means

I liked the wicked deep until the very end and the EP I think it was literally the epilog and then I was like what no

the only reason really that I have this one here cuz I quite liked vespertine is it just I'm like do I like it as much as sorcery of thorns and Enchantment of ravens which are also written by Margaret Rogerson I'm like I don't know if I like him as much

they work together to try and help each other they discover things about each other they become friends this a sense of found family it's so cute I love it I think it's just such a fun cute wholesome adventure story

I think I was surprised at how much it kind of tapped into familial relationships and relationships that are very much in meshed and I was like oh okay I wasn't expecting this so I actually really quite respected that about it I just don't think I loved it as much as the ones in the middle tier

I love Yumi and the nightmare painter I love its Inspirations I love that its Inspirations are one of my favorite stories of all time but it's still incredibly unique the magic is so cool the way in which the characters learn from each other I think is beautiful and sweet