Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Buddy Reads Scheduled below for July. Have a great month reading. If you buddy read isn't on the list please let us know in the comments.

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Start Date: 1st July
Category: Series - The Wheel of Time #1
Discussion Thread: The Eye of the World Discussion

The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
Start Date: 1st July
Category: Series - Gentleman Bastards #3
Discussion Thread: The Republic of Thieves Discussion

Retribution Falls
Start Date: 1st July
Category: Series - Tales of Ketty Jay #1
Discussion Thread: Retribution Falls Discussion

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
Start Date: 2nd July
Category: Series - First Law World #5
Discussion Thread: The Heroes Discussion

Malice by John Gywnne
Start Date: 5th July
Category: Series - Faithful and Fallen #1
Discussion Thread: Malice Discussion

The Legion of Flame by Anthony Ryan
Start Date: 6th July
Category: Series - Draconis Memoria #2
Discussion Thread: The Legion of Flame Discussion

Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Start Date: 10th July
Category: Series - Dresden Files #1
Discussion Thread: Storm Front Discussion

The Novice by Taran Matharu
Start Date: 11th July
Category: Series - Summoner #1
Discussion Thread: The Novice Discussion

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Start Date: 15th July
Category: Series - Stormlight Archives #1
Discussion Thread: The Way of the Kings Discussion

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Start Date: 16th July
Category: Series - World of the Five Gods #1
Discussion Thread: The Curse of Chalion Discussion

The Book of Jhereg by Steven Brust
Start Date: 18th July
Category: Series - Vlad Taltos Omnibus #1-3
Discussion Thread: The Book of Jhereg Discussion

Dancer's Lament by Ian C. Esslemont
Start Date: 20th July
Category: Series - The Path to Ascendency #1
Discussion Thread: Dancer's Lament Discussion

The Fifth Season by J.K Jemisin
Start Date: 26th July
Category: Series - The Broken Earth #1
Discussion Thread: The Fifth Season Discussion

A Dragon of a Different Color by Rachel Aaron
Start Date: 28th July
Category: Series - Heartstrikers #4
Discussion Thread: A Dragon Discussion

I've got jhereg down for the 18th

Hacen wrote: "I've got jhereg down for the 18th"

Thanks for picking that up Hacen. Fixed!

Well I ended getting caught up in five books for June, and July's list is another killer, another five I want to read, but big books.
The choices are just too good!!
Now what to do, LOL!!!

Wow quite the list.

Frank wrote: "Well I ended getting caught up in five books for June, and July's list is another killer, another five I want to read, but big books.
The choices are just too good!!
Now what to do, LOL!!!"

Never fear Frank! Books do come up again for buddy reads :). There's a couple of books there I can see are on their second time around as a buddy read.

Frank wrote: "Well I ended getting caught up in five books for June, and July's list is another killer, another five I want to read, but big books.
The choices are just too good!!
Now what to do, LOL!!!"

I'd suggest flailing and panicking, but that hasn't seemed to work well for me lately lol. It physically hurts not joining some of these - too many good ones at once!!

Agreed Niki, I always see something on the list that's been on my TBR for ages and want to join, but just know I can't. Meaning you The Fifth Season!

Two books I want to read both starting the first. No way I can keep up with both so I may need to flip a coin on this one.
Not sure if that qualifies as a good or bad way to start off in a group.

Note Dancer's Lament is now the 20th July.

July is definitely going to be epic with 5 buddy Reads (4 technically because one I will be joining in on the discussion) al spaced out with ample time to read

CAN'T WAIT FOR WAY OF KINGS!!!!!!!

Okay now that I got July is going to be fun

Angela wrote: "Note Dancer's Lament is now the 20th July."

Thanks Angela I meant to update the thread and spaced.

No problem Scott :-). I wish there was some way with a thread like this one that mods could be authorised to change to change the main post.

So far I'm going to join the "The Eye of the World" read and the "Storm Front" read. I don't know any of the latter months reads, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know!

Iam joining the Eye of the world BR. Cant wait:)

This is going to be a very busy month (6 books in this list). I am also adding Assassin's Apprentice early in the month. Oh my, a nice challenging month of reads and I cannot wait to start!

I will not - and it is a painful decision actually - join the Eye of the World even if I wanted to tackle the series. I will do it at a later stage but I will some day!

What a packed month! Definitely a testament to how many active readers we have - this is awesome to see!

Well, The Eye of the World is the main one here for me. I'm looking forward to beginning our great WoT journey!

If I can grab The Legion of Flame I will definitely be all over that. Might be later in the month when I get to hop in on it, so we'll have to see how things go.

I'm due a Way of Kings re-read, but I might leave that out for now. A combination of these three epic books in one month might just burn me out :)

Stormfront is an interesting one - I might hop in on that for something easy. I read the first three Dresden books aaages ago and still have them on my shelf, so I might just get that series going as something light to break up the heavier stuff.

The Fifth Season is also an interesting one. I have it sitting on my Kindle and haven't read any of Jemisin's stuff yet, so I might go for that if the mood takes me at the end of the month.

Chris wrote: "So far I'm going to join the "The Eye of the World" read and the "Storm Front" read. I don't know any of the latter months reads, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know!"
The Way of Kings is my favorite book so far, by far! I would suggest it!

Depending on how quickly the library purchases the Legion of Flame I may be in the same boat as you Sean. It's going to be a fairly large buddy read so it'll be fun!

Well, larger than my usual BR where it's just me and one other

I think I have it worked out, fingers crossed!

Eye of The World
The Republic of Thieves
The Novice
The Way of Kings
Curse of the Chalion (we'll see)

Legion of Flame will have to wait since I have not read the first book. Have been apprehensive since I read Ryan's first trilogy which stated off fantastic then petered out by book three.

Definitely no petering in Draconis Memoria!

Im joining many of those reads too - see you there. :)

I'm glad to hear it, just don't have the time to get into that series, yet.

See you in the BR's for July, looking forward to it.

Note some of us who missed reading Malice in June are doing a buddy read starting July 5th.

Ahdam made me want to try that one.

Angela wrote: "Note some of us who missed reading Malice in June are doing a buddy read starting July 5th."

Too many good choices all at once!
This is on my TBR soon list too....

Angela wrote: "Note some of us who missed reading Malice in June are doing a buddy read starting July 5th."

I cannot recommend it highly enough and is probably one of the best books I've read so far (for the bazillion time I know) so enjoy and yes while its slow and takes awhile to get going it gets good with the characters and setting so don't cut your losses just yet.

It's like a full on English meal there's a lot on the plate and it looks intimidating but once you found your groove you'll start enjoying it and by the time your done you want more

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Definitely no petering in Draconis Memoria!

Im joining many of those reads too - see you there. :)"

I've just bought Waking fire today and while I have some guilt I may jump into this without reading blood song which is kind of painful to be honest but if it is this good then I'll have a go at it haven't read a full on dragon story yet and I hope to change that here

Ahdam wrote: "Angela wrote: "Note some of us who missed reading Malice in June are doing a buddy read starting July 5th."

I cannot recommend it highly enough and is probably one of the best book..."

I actually never read Blood Song but I started with The Waking Fire. The books are absolutely different in setting and I was so impressed by The Waking Fire. Just impressive! I am waiting for The Legion of Flame to be delivered and I cannot wait to continue with the series!

As for Malice, I loved the book and the series. I just find the "simplicity" of the idea very well executed. Appealing story - sure, a bit slow at the beginning but wasn't also the Fellowship of the Ring or A Game of Thrones? -, great characters (one in particular, I was an absolute fan of!), use of untapped fantasy elements. I just found the book and the series well done!

The faithfull and the Fallen is one of my favourite series out there. Ive read the first two and to much sadness i cant get the next one anywhere in my country:( I really loved how the author used some more original or at least not so exploited ideas for the lore. Awesome:)

Ahdam wrote: "Angela wrote: "Note some of us who missed reading Malice in June are doing a buddy read starting July 5th."

I cannot recommend it highly enough and is probably one of the best book..."
I enjoyed malice a great deal and look forward in continuing the series.

Hmmm, might join in on Malice. Gotta finish Kings of the Wyld first. Would be my first buddy read so might be fun!

The audio book for Malice sucked. I need to eventually read the other books but haven't been able to get myself to do so. The narrator is just all over the place with his accents and several voices he choice are just flat out annoying.

I'm so excited for the 11th! I've been really looking forward to reading The Novice for a while! :)