I’ve been reading a lot since Onyx Storm was released back in January, and these are some of the series I’ve been enjoying!
This book was so much fun to read- a teenage girl suddenly gets uprooted from her life after finding out she’s inherited more money than any person could conceivably know what to do with from a man she’s never heard of. The catch? She has to live in the family estate for a continuous year with the very family that’s been disinherited from their fortune. There are puzzles that need to be solved, new social dynamics that have to be conquered, and attempts on her life to navigate. I can’t wait to read the rest!
It’s technically a trilogy, but there are two other books to read after the first three and an additional spinoff series containing two novels.
If you know anything about the show, you probably know what this one’s about. Short read, less than 300 pages. I finished it in one sitting- so relevant and good. Highly recommend, I’m waiting on my copy of The Testaments to get here so I can finish this two book series.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
This was another fun one. Six rulers meet on an island every hundred years in an attempt to break their curses and save their realms, only five can survive. Our protagonist Isla must navigate alliances and betrayals as the only competitor without powers to try her best to make it to the end and save her people from destruction.
This is a series that isn’t finished yet, there’s three books so far. I’m picking up #2.
Eragon and Eldest formed by far my favorite fantasy world from my childhood. I never finished reading the last two novels in this four book series however, so I’m doing that. As I type this, I am currently reading the third installment, Brisingr. This series follows Eragon- a rural farm boy, and Saphira- a creature who hatches out of a rock he found hunting in the woods, as they become the heroes their continent needs. There are elves, dwarves, very scary villains, magic and so many twists and turns. Christopher Paolini created not one but several languages for these books, which I find to be so freaking cool. The movie was an absolute abomination and one of the greatest letdowns of my life, but even twenty years later they hold up as masterpieces- at least to me.
Diving into the Sarah J. Maas-iverse was pretty intimidating at first, and I know I’ve just scratched the surface. I’ve read Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight and The Assassin’s Blade so far, and I’m so excited to keep making my way through it! There’s more to Celaena than meets the eye, and even more to her beyond her reputation as the deadliest assassin in the kingdom.
There’s eight books in this particular series, but also two more series that take place in the same world.