Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

What are the three books/series you are most looking forward to reading this year? (Can be published whenever)

Fantasy series to start/continue/finish:
1. Legend of Condor Heroes, starting from A Hero Born
2. The Singing Hills Cycle, continuing with the sequel When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
3. The Age of Madness, finishing with The Wisdom of Crowds

Turns out that I haven't updated my calendar with all the new releases coming out this year. Oops!

But I did have these and they should be awesome! =D

Fugitive Telemetry #6
Cast in Conflict #16
Relentless: A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel #2
The Thorn of Emberlain #4

I am looking forward to start reading fantasy this year. I am starting with
"The banished land saga" and then "Paternus trilogy" and "mistborn trilogy".

I'm looking forward to reading the Poppy War Series this year.

Hoping to read:
Malazan
Faithful and the Fallen
Inda
All things Abercrombie

Stacked lol

Most looking forward to reading this year:
Faithful and the Fallen - John Gwynne
Soldier Son trilogy - Robin Hobb
Winterkeep - Kristin Cashore

Also really looking forward to the Faithful and the Fallen- I've seen a lot of good reviews for this, so I can't wait!

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay- I've not read any of his work yet but I have an inkling it's gonna be good...

And The Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch, need some good grimdark in my life and hoping this will deliver!

Yes, add me to the list of people wanting to read The Faithful and the Fallen! 🤩

Also can't wait to read The Five Warrior Angels series (The Forgetting Moon) by Brian Lee Durfee (which will be finished this year).

And as a big fan of Graceling and Bitterblue, I'm so happy the Graceling Realm series is finally being finished properly with Winterkeep (although all previous books also worked as standalones).

Siobhan wrote: "Most looking forward to reading this year:
Faithful and the Fallen - John Gwynne
Soldier Son trilogy - Robin Hobb
Winterkeep - Kristin Cashore"

Clicked for the Robin Hobb, lol. What's this trilogy about? O.o

I'm most excited for these books series in 2021 :D

The Summer Tree
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Kings of the Wyld
I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire

There's probably more...but that's what I can think of for now XD

Fugitive Telemetry
Wild Sign
Blood Heir

My main goal for 2021 is to finish the Realm of the Elderlings - Fool's Errand is the next on the list for me.

Other books/series I'm interested in:

The Rage of Dragons
Magician: Apprentice Volume 1

My top 3 series that I want to read this year is:

The Crimson Empire starting with:
The Commonwealth Saga starting with
The Gilded Wolves starting with (book 1 will be a reread but the final book in the trilogy comes out in September so towards the end of the year I will reread it and then complete the series)


Top 3 books:
(I am rereading the first three books before I complete this series)

Katie wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Most looking forward to reading this year:
Faithful and the Fallen - John Gwynne
Soldier Son trilogy - Robin Hobb
Winterkeep - Kristi..."

I don't even know what it's about Katie! But it's not Realm of the Elderlings. I'm hoping to get a buddy read together when I know when I'll have time to read it (baby due next month!!), if you'd be interested in joining me?? :)

By the way, all the people who've expressed interest in The Faithful and the Fallen: there will be a buddy-read starting on Feb 11 here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Siobhan wrote: "Katie wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Most looking forward to reading this year:
Faithful and the Fallen - John Gwynne
Soldier Son trilogy - Robin Hobb
[book:Winterkeep|5362..."

@Siobhan - If you can read this series without having read the Realm of the Elderling series first I might join you. It'll be good to read a bit of Robin Hobb but I'm in the middle of too many long series to commit to Elderling this year. This would be a good compromise.

Also I think I might have said this on another thread but just in case I didn't congratulations on impending motherhood 👶😊

Hailee wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Katie wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Most looking forward to reading this year:
Faithful and the Fallen - John Gwynne
Soldier Son trilogy - Robin Hobb
[book..."

Ahhh yes this is totally separate to RotE so might be ideal for you! ☺️

Thanks so much Hailee! ❤️

@Siobhan ~ ooh yes! Yeah it sounded like it wouldn’t be a realm of the Elderling piece so it will be interesting to see a new viewpoint! I’d love to read it with you sometime this year. Whenever everyone has free time ^~^

Baby next month?! Oh my goodness. Time flies!! How exciting ^~^

That's great, I'm starting The Faithful and the Fallen this month so probably be a few months before I get to Hobb, but will give you and Hailee a shout!

Siobhan wrote: "That's great, I'm starting The Faithful and the Fallen this month so probably be a few months before I get to Hobb, but will give you and Hailee a shout!"

Sounds good. I don't own the books and probably won't buy them until I know when we'll read them (unless waterstones have a double stamps sale lol) so just give me at least a week or two's warning 😊

Btw are you reading all the Faithful and the Fallen books with buddies on Bookstagram? If so are you doing one a month or one every two months like us?

Hailee wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "That's great, I'm starting The Faithful and the Fallen this month so probably be a few months before I get to Hobb, but will give you and Hailee a shout!"

Sounds good. I don't own ..."

We haven't actually decided yet! I would probably choose to do one a month. Do you already have threads for the whole series?

I'll definitely give you a few weeks notice for Soldier Son :)

Great thanks and no I've only requested Malice so far. I think we're pretty confident it'll be on a one every two month basis but I thought it would be better to make a definite decision and request the rest of the threads once we've read book 1 and everyone knows at what pace they can read them.

Hailee wrote: "Great thanks and no I've only requested Malice so far. I think we're pretty confident it'll be on a one every two month basis but I thought it would be better to make a definite decision and reques..."

Yeah good point! :)

@Siobhan, oh my god, baby's coming so soon?! Good luck!!!

Beena wrote: "@Siobhan, oh my god, baby's coming so soon?! Good luck!!!"

Thanks lovely!!

Siobhan wrote: "That's great, I'm starting The Faithful and the Fallen this month so probably be a few months before I get to Hobb, but will give you and Hailee a shout!"

Excellent! Can't wait!

Yes, Siobhan! Sending you lots of good vibes and wishes and good luck!!

Eva wrote: "Yes, Siobhan! Sending you lots of good vibes and wishes and good luck!!"

Thanks Eva!

1. The Wisdom of Crowds - This is due to land in September - I can't wait for more Abercrombie!
2. The Free Bastards - Also due to land in September, this trilogy has been great, fairly crude and quite funny, but not without heart.
3. The Blacktongue Thief - Robin Hobb wrote a great review for this one, so I'm curious to check it out :-)

I have more then 3

Malazan
Wheel of Time
Cosmere
Dragonlance
Faithful and the Fallen

There are others I am hoping/planing to read, but these are my most excited about ones so far.