Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Incomplete Series
Thursday Murder Club
1) Thursday Murder Club (2022)
2) The Man Who Died Twice (2022)

Renee Ballard
1) The Late Show (2021)
2) Dark Sacred Night (2022)

An Ember in the Ashes
1) An Ember in the Ashes (2022)
2) A Torch Against the Night (2022)
3) A Reaper at the Gates (2022)
4) A ​Sky Beyond the Storm (2022)


Completed/UTD

Red Queen's War
The Liar's Key (2022)
The Wheel of Osheim (2022)

Crescent City
House of Earth and Blood (2021)
House of Sky and Breath (2022)

UTD
1) Hidden Legacy
2) Green Creek
3) Winston Brothers
4) Green Bone Saga
5) The Iron Covenant

Stat for Feb:

failed miserably at finishing any series but successfully started 3 series.

All the best, Manju :D

Manju wrote: "January is gone and I managed to bring Sinners of Saint to up to date and completed Hidden Legacy. six books in all."

This is the one which is like KD series right.?

same author but magic system is very different. no shifters and vampires...

read it. ;)

Thanks HP!

Manju wrote: "same author but magic system is very different. no shifters and vampires...

read it. ;)"

Will target next week ;-)

March

Started - 4

Matthew Scudder
All Souls
Elemental Assassin
Powder Mage

Progress made in - 3

Completed - 1
Legend trilogy by Marie Lu

Brought up to date - 1
A court of Thorns and Roses

April

Series started and progressed - 7
Brigerton - 2/7
Cut & Run - 3/8
Dragonskin Slippers - 1/3
Matthew Scudder - 2/17
Transcends Duet - 2/2
Playing with Monsters - 2/2
Divine Cities - 1/3

Progressed - 2
Saxon Stories - 2/10
Powder Mage - 2/3

Finished - 3
Blackthorn and Grim
Transcends Duet
Playing with Monsters (abandoned second book @30%)

finished Calamity yesterday, thus completed Reckoners by Brandon Sanderson.

too lazy to keep track of all the series progressed/completed, hence have decided to update this thread as and when I complete a series.

completed A Charm of Magpies

1) The Magpie Lord
2) A Case of Possession
3) Flight of Magpies

Finished Half a War, and with this I wrapped up Shattered Seas trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.

Half a King
Half the World
Half a War

well done :)

Mayim wrote: "well done :)"

Thanks! :)

Brought up to Date Green Creek and Winston Brothers by reading Ravensong and Dr. Strange Beard respectively.

Finished Tawny Man.

Fool's Errand
Golden Fool
Fool's Fate

Great job Manju! I’m really looking forward to starting Tawny Man soon.

Thanks! Hope you like Tawny Man. A mature and older Fitz was much better than the annoying child of Farseer.

That’s good to hear. I’m not sure if I would have ever continued the series if I had to go straight from Farseer to Tawny. I loved Liveship though so now I’m really excited to read Tawny.

I have heard great things about LivShip. I am starting it later this month.

Great job Manju!

I think I might try to tackle the entire Realm of Edrling series next year.

Barry wrote: "Great job Manju!

I think I might try to tackle the entire Realm of Edrling series next year."

Thanks!

Good luck. You need it, especially with the Farseer Trilogy.

Haha thanks for the heads-up. That's why I've been sorta postponing reading the series. I've heard many comments wrt to the MC.

Finished Magic Triumphs and with I also wrapped up Kate Daniels. One of the best UF!

Wrapped up To All the Boys I've Loved before trilogy. A fun read if you can ignore the usual YA trope.

Finished Divine Cities. a very different and enjoyable fantasy.

Finished Livship. Loved it. Had a hard time believing that she wrote this after Assassin's Quest.

Hoping to wrap up remaining seven books in Elderlings this year. keeping fingers crossed.

I love this series (like all of the series I mean). I'm with you in planning on finishing the books this year. I'm starting book 4 of Rainwilds. 2 more Rainwilds and 3 of the final Fitzes to go I think.

you have only 4 and i have 7! just hoping that Rain wilds are not bad else I will have to skip them and jump straight to final Fitz trilogy.

Manju wrote: "you have only 4 and i have 7! just hoping that Rain wilds are not bad else I will have to skip them and jump straight to final Fitz trilogy."

The final Fitz trilogy build on events from Rain Wilds so I'll suggest reading a summary if you really dislike the series :)

Virginie wrote: "The final Fitz trilogy build on events from Rain Wilds so I'll suggest reading a summary if you really dislike the series :)..."

oh, then I will read them even if I don't like them. :)

If you want to rant, I'm sure Petrik will be happy to spit on those books with you haha :p

Finished Fitz and Fool, with it I wrapped up Realm of Elderlings. So glad that I came back to this world after hating Assassin's Quest. this will remain one of my favorite world.

it is also my first finished series of this year.

Congrats Manju!

Barry wrote: "Congrats Manju!"

thanks, Barry! :)

Well done, Manju! Realm of the Elderlings is the series that got me into fantasy, and remains my absolute favorite world so far :)

Thanks, Virginia. It was worth reading. The life of Fitz and his relationship with Fool, it was so beautiful and so emotional. Perhaps I will read it again sometime if Hobb doesn't write any new series.

Wrapped up another big series, Wheel of Time. Even after all my complaints I loved it. the world, the magic system, characters, everything was amazing. Specially Rand.

finished my first series of the year, Acquisition. An okayish romance.

Started Riftwar Saga earlier this year. Will be starting Pawn of Prophecy today. this challenge looks good for now as I haven't started anything big or many other series.

Will be resuming Elvis Cole and Charlie Parker later this month. sticking to schedule of reading one book per month.