I read this book years ago when I first started BookTube, and it has stayed on my shelf, and I keep thinking about it years later.
10 Criminally Underrated Fantasy Novels
- Underrated Fantasy · 12 books · counted in creators' Underrated Picks · counted in creators' Favorite Fantasy
This was the winner of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off Competition this last year and deserved every single inch of that accolade because it is a masterfully written book.
It's so well written. I've I have a couple minor quibbles with it, but other than that, this book is so good.
This book is perfect for adult fantasy readers who want something that is fast, bingeable, and gives a good punch of horror through the fantasy. It is so good.
Its first book is Never Die, the third book is Spirits of Vengeance. I have read all three and love all three of these books.
What I loved about this story is that it really gave me everything I wanted from a hero party story without making it something that I had read before, without something that felt super clichéd.
This little book, you guys, is divided into four episodes, each one represented by a season, and this world is so Grimm's fairy tales with a dash of Studio Ghibli and it's darker than the cover suggests. Don't go into this expecting a cozy fantasy, but it's so well done.
Its first book is Never Die, the third book is Spirits of Vengeance. I have read all three and love all three of these books.
This has a lot of high stakes. It is very fast-paced, great action. I love Wren as a main protagonist character.
It's just such a tightly plotted, really interesting story with fantastic characters in it.
There is not a single ounce of wasted space in this series, and it is so good. I bawled my eyes out at the end of this series and at several points during the series because these characters became so near and dear to my heart throughout their journey that I was thinking about this book and had a serious book hangover long after I finished the last page.
This book is surprisingly bingeable for how elevated the prose is, and I definitely think if you are looking for something that has a really well-written, well-crafted, masterful classic fantasy feel, this book is definitely going to give you that.









