Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

It's almost the end of the month! What were your three favourites from September?

These were my 3 favorites from this month:

1. Magic Triumphs
2.The Beauty of Darkness
3. Stars Uncharted

I only had 3 5*s this month.

1. The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams - this was a reread.
2. Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams
3. Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven by Marjorie M. Liu

1. Thief of Time
2. Warbreaker
3. Clean Sweep

Diamond Fire - Ilona Andrews [5/5]
Magic Triumphs - Ilona Andrews [4/5]
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie [4/5]

I feel like this is ALL I've read this month lol.

Midnight Tides (5/5) - I originally rated this 3/5 the first time I read this. So misguided I was. Truly great.

Ruin 3.5/5

Forsworn 4/5 - novella.

Technically I finished Valour in September, but more of an August read :)

1. Magic Triumphs (Andrews) - such fun and a great conclusion to this series.
2. Seraphina (Hartman) - read this with my daughter, story is beautifully and thoughtfully crafted.
3. The Foundling and other tales of Prydain (Alexander) - read this with my son, we loved being able to revisit Prydain :-)

There can be only one... The Crippled God.

Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

Conqueror book 5 and the finale of the Genghis series was my only 5*.

Angela wrote: "There can be only one... The Crippled God."

Have you recovered yet? It took me a couple of weeks for it to stop being all consuming and get over the depression of being done.

The Shadow of What Was Lost and part 2 An Echo of Things to Come his writing is so similar to Brandon Sanderson and I enjoyed the mystery or the characters plus the magic oh my. Another book I see myself rereading Foundryside magic was great, adorable characters to cheer for some similarities of things brought my attention to something that was in Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. So yeah you see I like Brandon Sanderson so I found books I enjoy with similarities to his.

So your ratings system is 0 to Brandon Sanderson? I’ve seen worse ways to rate books.

Oooh good pick - I love Licanius.

My only 5 star read this month was the Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
Everything else I've read this month has been average. Hopefully next month will be a bit better.

Not really Scott, there was so much to process.

Scarlet Tides - If the next two books in this series are as great as the first two this might become a favorite series!

The Blade Itself - very promising start to a trilogy

Shards of Time - I really loved the whole Nightrunner series and I'm sad it's over (at least for now)

I got some good reading done this month for me, these were the best three

Marked
Clean Sweep
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know It's True

1. Sandman Slim (loved it so so much)
2. the Gryphonpike series (I'm cheating but it's a series of novella so... not cheating that much ? perhaps ?), especially A Stone's Throw and Dead of Knight, they were my favorites
3. Fangirl

This was difficult... I had a really good reading month and loved a lot of books.

Kings of the Wyld was my only 5* read from September, but it was fantastic so I'm okay with only having one 5* read. :)

Bill wrote: "So your ratings system is 0 to Brandon Sanderson? I’ve seen worse ways to rate books."

Well good for you hun....

The Heart's Invisible Furies - my first 5* in five months.

The Cloud Roads - loved the world and characters.

It was a so so month but there were some bright spots. The scary magical Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows, the fantastic fairy tale-ish take of the Russian revolution Deathless and the super fun rock and roll tour de force The Armageddon Rag.