These Fantasy Books Are Criminally Underrated

That is the type of prose style that C.S. Friedman uses. Add to that the fact that she has made this an incredible genre mashup of science fiction, epic fantasy, and a heavy sprinkling of horror, and you have something truly unique that feels classic and also timeless at the same time.

I loved them so much and as you can see for those of you that are looking for a shorter standalone something you can take with you on a weekend or just buzz through in between your longer reads, I highly recommend this.

There's a romantic subplot that I just absolutely loved. I really think that Gwen just kind of hit that perfect Venn diagram of a bunch of very opposite types of storytelling that work so incredibly well in the story that she has created here.

And just the absolute ingenious brilliance of the world building in this book, I am constantly thinking about it in my head. The way that he utilizes a little bit of that epic feeling, a little bit of that steampunk or gaslamp fantasy, and also the typical quest fantasy completely turned on its head through this journey into the heart of this very mysterious and corrupted tower. It's so good.

Add to that the quintessential Daniel Abraham mildly horrifying and really intriguing magic system on top of this setting and the characters and you have a truly remarkable fantasy experience.

It's one of those books where even if you don't know how you feel about it when you're first reading, it's so compulsively readable, you cannot put the book down. That's where I found myself.

And I just think that this is a phenomenal book and more people need to be talking about it.

And the fights are just phenomenal. And the way that he plays with different fantasy elements, there's a steampunk element in this one.

I have recommended K.J. Parker many times on my channel with The Company, which is another one of his books that I really like.

The elemental magic system I really enjoyed. I think she does some really cool things on a very familiar magic system style. And I could not put this book down.

This book, when I read it a couple of years ago, absolutely blew my hat off when it came to just the intensity and the way that the tension of this story was instantaneous.