Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

What series are you most keen to start in 2018? :)

At this point, my top three are as follows:

1. The Draconis Memoria (I read the first two chapters awhile ago, and realllyyyy loved the writing, but I'm waiting until I can commit some more time to reading them).

2. The Broken Earth Trilogy.

3. Long Price Quartet. I *really* hope that I'm among the people who love these books, but I have no idea what to expect haha.

1. Drenai

2. Riyria Revelations

3. Faithful and the Fallen

1. Rain Wild Chronicles

2. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

3. Codex Alera or Broken Empire... but here I am less keen to start as for 1. and 2. :D

Admittedly, the series I’m most excited to start often changes from week to week, but luckily there have been a few I’ve been eager to get to for several months now:



Malice is the first in the Faithful and the Fallen fantasy series that many of you are losing your shit over. It’s evidently a slow burn, multiple POV series that sounds right up my alley.
Burn for Me is the first book in the Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews and it seems to be getting the same amount of positive attention as her Kate Daniels series. As I am now a Kate Daniels super fan, I’m going to trust everybody who says to ignore the super ridiculous & cheesy covers and look forward to diving into more works by these brilliant authors.
Unclean Spirits is the first book of The Black Sun’s Daughter Series by MLN Hanover… A pen name for an author you may recognize as Daniel Abraham or one half of James S. A. Corey. Because I absolutely loved the Long Price Quartet and the Expanse series, respectively, I am hoping this urban fantasy will also knock my socks off. I can’t wait!

Honorable Mentions (meaning I’ve already started them this year): Unhewn Throne by Brian Staveley & Malazan by Erikson/Esselmont

Via The Obsessive Bookseller

Like Niki mine change weekly but this week I’ll go with:

1. The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan.

2. Symphony of Ages by Elizabeth Haydon.

3. Bone Universe by Fran Wilde.

Mostly want to start them because they are all completed series and I own all the books in audio.

The Last King of Osten Ard trilogy by Tad Williams

I've read half of it already, but I mean to finish the Witcher Series by Andrzej Sapkowski

And finally the Ryria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan because it's about time I do.

1. Stormlight Archive

2. Mistborn era 2

3. Grishaverse (Six of Crows duology to start)

Among many others!

PS. Bill, I loved the Black Magician trilogy! I hope it's still as good as I remember :)

Drenai is the only series that I'm positive I'll start this year, and is by far the one I'm most looking forward to. A distant #2 and #3 would be Black Company and The Vagrant.

Liam wrote: "3. Long Price Quartet. I *really* hope that I'm among the people who love these books, but I have no idea what to expect haha."

Not that you need any extra pressure Liam, but I've heard that anyone who doesn't like LPQ is banned from the group! In seriousness though, I think anyone who enjoys well thought-out fantasy and good literature will love the series.

Mostly I'm keen to finish some series this year, but right now I'm looking forward to starting these:

Inda
The Diabolic
Burn for Me

Inda Inda
Unclean Spirits Black Sun's Daughter
Crimes Against Magic Hellequin

A Time Of Dread Of Blood and Bone
The Ember Blade Ember Blade
Beyond Redemption Manifest Delusions
Hope and Red Empire of Storms
The Garden of Stones Echoes of Empire
The Shadow of What Was Lost The Licanius Trilogy

Echoes of Empire is 4th on my list.

Niki, if you want company for Hidden Legacy, I will join you. This is one of the series I am planning to read this year.

1. The Faithful and the Fallen
2. The Broken Earth
3. Manifest Delusions

That would be fabulous! :) I'm planning to read the three Innkeeper books first, so I was thinking April would be a good month to read Burn for Me. How does that sound?

Niki Hawkes wrote: "That would be fabulous! :) I'm planning to read the three Innkeeper books first, so I was thinking April would be a good month to read Burn for Me. How does that sound?"

April would be perfect. :)

Miche wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "That would be fabulous! :) I'm planning to read the three Innkeeper books first, so I was thinking April would be a good month to read Burn for Me. How does that sound?"

April ..."

Sweet! I'll get it ready. :) It looks like the 15th or the 25th would be good... hows about adding the other two books for the following months. Too much?

Samir and Miche-would y'all want to set up a buddy Read for this cause I'd also like to read Manifest Delusions

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Miche wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "That would be fabulous! :) I'm planning to read the three Innkeeper books first, so I was thinking April would be a good month to read Burn for Me. How does that s..."

Niki, if we set then around the 25th , I could do one per month. :)

Hacen and Samir:

For Manifest Delusions, I could commit on July/August/September around the 25th or later months. Would that work?

Before that I don't have much space available anymore.

Done!

Tammie I see it on your list too - you're welcome to join us. :)

Definitely The Faithful and the Fallen & The Witcher series.

Also hoping to start The Shadow Campaigns & I just started Raven's Shadow in 2018, so that counts too.

Miche wrote: "Hacen and Samir:

For Manifest Delusions, I could commit on July/August/September around the 25th or later months. Would that work?

Before that I don't have much space available anymore."

I can do any of those. We'll see what Samir says.

Hacen wrote: "I can do any of those. We'll see what Samir says.
"

Cool!

Apparently I'm too stupid to read the instructions carefully. Let me try this again.

1. The Faithful and the Fallen
2. The Witcher
3. The Shadow Campaigns

Miche wrote: "Hacen wrote: "I can do any of those. We'll see what Samir says.
"

Cool!"

I'm cool with any of those.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Tammie I see it on your list too - you're welcome to join us. :)"

I think I will, but I already have three buddy reads in April so I may have to drop something.

@Hacen and Samir,

Let's aim for one book for month?

July 25th
August 25th
September 25th

If it works for you both, I will ask the mods to create the threads. :)

Miche wrote: "@Hacen and Samir,

Let's aim for one book for month?

July 25th
August 25th
September 25th

If it works for you both, I will ask the mods to create the threads. :)"

Works for me.

Long Price Quartet next month
Thrawn
Bobiverse

Here are the ones that I can think of:

1. Malazan Book of the Fallen (currently reading the first book and really enjoying it)

2. Inda--I don't really know anything about this, but it sounds really interesting and I'm exciting to start it.

3. The Shadow Campaigns--these look really, really good.

1. Drenai

2. Faithful and the Fallen

3. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn

I love how many of the series we've listed are already planned buddy reads. We all have great tastes in books.

Jenna, I thought of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn too. Wasn't sure I'd be able to get to them this year though

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I love how many of the series we've listed are already planned buddy reads. We all have great tastes in books."

That we do ;)

Chris wrote: "Jenna, I thought of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn too. Wasn't sure I'd be able to get to them this year though"

I'm doing it with the group. I think the BR is in March? Hopefully you have some time but I guess it depends on when finish school. :)

1. Malazan BoTF
2. Riyria the first 6 books (publication order) and Moontide Quartet, I swear I couldn't pick one so #cheater but since I already started BoTF at time of posting...
3. Inda

EDIT...ok kill Malazan since I already started it. I just saw Siobhan's post...so my final list is

1. Stormlight
2. Moontide
3. Riyria with Inda as honourable mention

Zaara wrote: "1. Malazan BoTF
2. Riyria the first 6 books (publication order) and Moontide Quartet, I swear I couldn't pick one so #cheater but since I already started BoTF at time of posting...
3. Inda

EDIT......"

It was hard to choose! I'm excited for Moontide and Riyria too xD

Similar list to everyone else, since I only have my Buddy Reads to pick from, really:

1) Malazan -- just finished the first one

2) Riyria -- Buddy Read in May

3) Honey Badgers -- ridiculous PNR spinoff starting in March

Honorable Mention: Stars Uncharted... not sure if this is a series or standalone, but with Linesman cancelled, I'm interested to see what they write next (I really liked Linesman/Allience/Confluence)

Miche wrote: "@Hacen and Samir,

Let's aim for one book for month?

July 25th
August 25th
September 25th

If it works for you both, I will ask the mods to create the threads. :)"

Sounds good.

1. The Song of the Shattered Sands (Bradley P. Beaulieu)
I'm looking the most forward to this. The main reason I didn't start this yet is because the final book is still to come out later this year

2. Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne (Brian Staveley) --> I started the first book (75% done)

3. Raven's Shadow (Anthony Ryan)

1) Wheel of Time
2) Faithful and the Fallen
3) The Divine Cities

Hehehe @Manu...best of luck with that list...there's yet ANOTHER F&tF BR cycle due to start this year. I cant believe my luck!
Will you be joining the group read. I hope so. Do come!
*tug*

Zaara wrote: "Hehehe @Manu...best of luck with that list...there's yet ANOTHER F&tF BR cycle due to start this year. I cant believe my luck!
Will you be joining the group read. I hope so. Do come!
*tug*"

will check the schedule. :)

1) Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne
2) The Drenai Saga
3) Demon Cycle
And honorable mention to Long Price Quartet. I'm not sure I'll manage to read it in 2018 though.

Nope, sorry, cannot limit this to only three.

Mage's Blood - The Moontide Quartet
The Way of Kings - The Stormlight Archive
The Shadow of What Was Lost - The Licanius Trilogy
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Gentleman Bastard
The Queen of All Crows - The Map of Unknown Things
Scourge of the Betrayer - Bloodsounder's Arc

Manju wrote: "1) Wheel of Time
2) Faithful and the Fallen
3) The Divine Cities"

You're in for an awesome year! WoT and Divine Cities are two of my faves.