TOP 10 FANTASY SERIES (2023)

it took every tenant of Epic Fantasy that we know and love going all the way back and completely just put the Spurs to it and amped It Up made it so much more human made it so much more visceral made it so much more real made the stakes so much actually I mean you can't have higher stakes in Lord of the Ring but it made the stakes higher in that it inter person interpersonal him per character each character has such a distinctive Arista tilian Arc playing out within these Pages

I jumped on board that readalong and man was I just so happy I did it was everything I remember it being Janny warts adds I think that little extra magic to it and it's just such a great look at what is on the other side of the rift War

she just hit so many of the tropes all the way back started by Dickens and before so well so much fun and it's that perfect lightning in a bottle of a series that Alchemy

I just thought he really spread his wings as a plotter in this Trilogy and I absolutely loved it as well as some of the characters Saed will continue to be my guy I just had the most fun with this Trilogy as I'm doing my cosmere catchup for the year so I have to have it in my honorable mentions

this has the most amazing fantasy that you have ever read if you have not read it please start Neil Gaiman understands mythology he understands underneath us the myths and the legends that make us up because we are walking retainers of story ourselves so we are built up of story and he understands this

I had the most fun with this I am a huge sucker for all things Arthurian and I thought the little Shades he had of some of T White's Once and Future King moments not only from the book but from Arthurian movies that we have seen he just had such wonderful Easter eggs and callbacks to not only that but Lord of the Rings when he said about his quest to create an Epic Fantasy adhering to his own rules

if you have not looked into this wonderful kind of Nar Noir detective look at the urban fantasy genre it is so much fun it is just a blast from the past and the writing style as far as that hard booil detective firsters narration and then just wild cases from everything that goes bump in the night and it is a great deal of fun to go on this multi-book journey with Harry Dresden

I do love it for so many things I love it for the multiple chosen one character journeys of all these characters that I'm absolutely loving going along their Journey with them I'm loving it for the intense world building as far as history and I'm loving it for the circular type of story of what has happened will happen again I absolutely love that theme there's so much to love about it I have some Pace issues with it

without this Epic Fantasy without this most perfect hero's journey executed to Perfection that I have probably ever read or watched if I'm including movies we would not have the genre that we all know and love there has to be this as a template for us to move forward

what a series it is he takes iconography from the Western from the Epic Fantasy from horror it is a love letter to all those and more it is a love letter to every way of telling a story it is a multiversal tale

I adore this series I understand we're all waiting for the next book but for me I'm not going to hold that against this author I understand he works slow I understand we're all waiting but at the same time I so adore the time that I have spent with the books that are out U lock and his and his group

it's what got me into reading fantasy I think it was it was so I identify with it on my reader Journey from all the way back as a very young person and just for the Nostalgia factor and what it meant to me as a person growing up I have to have it on the list

I absolutely love the time I have spent in this world I love the time I have spent with quo the main character the main protagonist of this story it he I mean come on it speaks to me he comes from a family of traveling performers and actors right there you had me at the get-go the pros in this is absolutely luscious it is gorgeous it is beautiful

I thought it was just absolutely beautiful I thought it was absolutely Whimsical I thought it was absolutely magical because there is a magic system in play here and it is the systems of faith that operate in our world that we see every day

I have only fully completely read the way of kings and was knocked off my chair my hair was blown back the philosophy of it of a world that has moved on is to the point where everyone is just seeing for the nihilistic purposes of themselves even the religion is there just to bolster up your personal Destiny of what you need how can this religion make you achieve that as opposed to these service or chivalry or giving through a life of others around you

I am blown away by this Asian influenced military Grim Dark Fantasy Trilogy it is it is about an invasion it is about an occupation and the subsequent uprising after that occupation it is brutal he understands that writer's rule of killing Your Darlings he puts his Darlings through the meat grinder like I haven't seen in a long time