a guide to epic fantasy books (beginner to advanced)

This is classic epic adventure fantasy. We follow a bunch of characters going on quests, joining magical tournaments, fighting dangerous old dark wizards. It has one of my favorite redemption arcs.

If you are just getting into fantasy, you need you need to read the best ones, Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Just anything by Lee Bardugo is fantastic, but these ones perfect.

It is very romantic to the point that I genuinely cried because I was just so like this is so beautiful. Oh, love and desperate times. It's that kind of book.

Dune is also a book about rebellion, a book about war, about imperialism, about lies that are being spread during wartime. It questions the idea of the rebellion leader, the Messiah. There may not be dragons, but there are really big worms and worm riders.

The fantasy world here has a Vianese opera vibe to it. Since we get the dual point of view of the blood witch and the blood witch hunter, most of the story is actually focused on the romance between them.

It is young adult so it is easy to wrap your head around. is easy to get into and it's mostly very focused on very high octane action scenes.

This book and I think most of Brandon Sanders's books are carried by the fun world building and magic system and the action. So if that's what you want, highly recommend this one.

It is fun. It is magical. She has to go through these trials.

And especially if you're not looking for something too complex, this one hits the spot. To me, good world building in a fantasy books means that it feels original and it feels very specific to that series.

I am describing powerless the romanty book powerless which I personally don't like.

I loved Shadow and Bone when I was 16, but I think there are better fantasy books out there.

I've also read two other romantasy books by her, Killing the Vampire Conqueror and Six Scorched Roses, which I also enjoyed, but this one is the best one.

Incredibly fun, fantastic romantic subplots, a series that 100% rips your heart out and then pieces it back together and then rips it out again.

I've also read two other romantasy books by her, Killing the Vampire Conqueror and Six Scorched Roses, which I also enjoyed, but this one is the best one.

This is fun, adventurous, a little wacky. It includes a lot of mythology. There is a very strong theme of how we can't trust legends and how history and legends are often embellished or told in favor of the people in power.

Personally, if someone asks me about a book series with Fay in them, I don't recommend Ankitar. I recommend The Cruel Prince. To me, The Cruel Prince is like young adult at its finest.

There is no series like this one. There is no world, no magic system like this one. Like this, to me, this is what makes a good fantasy series.

Fair warning, this is grim dark, so it gets genuinely really dark, but never just for shocking purposes. It always is there to tell a story. It never glorifies war.

The way Samantha Shannon creates myths in her stories and describes magic feels very reminiscent of Sarj Mas to me. It's very glittery. It's very aesthetically pleasing.

I really liked their romance. They have so much banter. It is a slow burn but still like delightfully spicy.

It has witches and magic and magical witches and magical children witches that have to learn magic for the first time. And we have like an adult witch that falls in love with the librarian at an orphanage that she works at.

This is some more god tier worldbuing. Not in terms of magic systems this time, but more in terms of the political power structures that exist. and how the magic is a direct extension of the power systems because this entire world is a hierarchy and so is the magic.

But at its core, this is an enemies to lovers romance story because the whole point of the plot is that we follow this siren and then the prince who is a siren hunter. How could they ever trust each other?

The romance in the first book is like a nice additional subplot. And then in the second book, it's a subplot, but oh my god, was it my favorite part of the book.