Talking Story 22.3K subscribers · Nov 21, 2023

My TOP 10 Standalone Fantasy!

Reviews10

I'm going Midsummer Night's Dream all the way back to The Bard all the way back to the courts of tatan and Oberon Playing Tricks on an unwitting wedding party and having too much fun this has The Shakespearean themes of confused identities

American GodsNeil Gaiman
Loved it

this is a delightful delicious book if you go into it with the right frame of mind you have to be open you have to be open to the structure of it and where it's going to take you and allow it to lead you there

Good OmensTerry Pratchett
Loved it

it is a hilarious telling of the Apocalypse it is a friendship for the ages that is hard to believe and should not be possible it is laugh out loud funny it is make me set the book down on the table to consider and meditate on what I just read thought-provoking

at the same time an amazing alternate history of the British Empire u a telling of two magicians to be at the heart of their craft it's almost like the story of Mozart and saletti going after it of who is going to be truly touched by this magical presence and able to wield this craft

MiddlegameSeanan McGuire
Loved it

just amazing villains an amazing story not only a chosen one but twins of chosen ones that have to come together and start to realize who is going to control magic who is going to control Alchemy in our really very real world

PiranesiSusanna Clarke
Loved it

it is absolutely lyrical phenomenal and somehow she packs an unbelievable punch into this few pages I was just absolutely blown away by this story

The HobbitUnknown
Loved it

there's nothing more magical than this the story of billbo baggin as he's called to Great Adventure hold as only Bilbo could tell it this amazing journey there and back again that you will go with him and the stalwart dwarves and Gandalf the Gray

I absolutely loved the Timeless love story that wo itself through hundreds of years of time this was a great romantic Fantastical urban fantasy read and the language is just Lush and Vivid and I absolutely loved it

WarbreakerBrandon Sanderson
Loved it

an amazing story of a princess to save her kingdom and another leaving her comfortable realm going to a new realm again sanderson's mind this field before but never to this amazing of an effect

WeaveworldClive Barker
Loved it

what a great Standalone story from a wonderful fantasist that was moving away from the horror genre and trying to expand what he was able to write and the playgrounds he was playing in absolutely give this a try