TOP TEN FANTASY BOOKS OF THE YEAR (April-June)

the themes are i think what shine in this and in this particular one the sequel a big part of it is how to come to terms with having moments of peace in your life of enjoying the camaraderie of those who care for you of having friendships of having some kind of romance with someone having these lovely things in your life when there are horrific things happening to other people

i really liked this author's writing style and i did like how she approached the story of ariadne but i found the characters very frustrating in that book

given where this one leaves off and the stakes that are established and how many heartbreaking moments the author packs into this first book i'm very excited to see where we go in books two and three

i really liked elektra i found the gray morality i found the pursuit of revenge and the all-consuming nature of that and the sort of ways in which society can blind you to how somebody's true nature really is i felt like she did all that so incredibly well

half his soul stole my heart it was so precious

i have picked up quite a few mythology retellings and this one to me was one of the best

i went into it without any expectations and was blown away

i think the way the author writes friendships in this story and found family it's one of my favorites that i've come across i know a lot of you love that trope and i thought the way it was done over the course of the duology was great

i think the bridge kingdom does a really great job of the tension and the building of these enemies to lovers and on top of that it's kind of a hybrid of that with the political side of fantasy and i'm a big fan of political fantasy so i did like seeing those two things combined

however i still really love this world like i said i really love the new perspectives where we leave off in this book makes me so badly want the third one

i finished it i was like that was fun that was a good time and then the more i sat on it the more i just kind of wanted to be back in that world and the more i wanted to just read these characters again

i know a bunch of you love the bodyguard trope and i thought that the bodyguard trope in this was very cute