The Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books Thread Book • Page 138

Kobo and Kindle are kind of the top dogs, but with how Amazon just locked their kindle books down, I find it hard to recommend Kobo unless you don't have a kindle library built up yet.

 

I have a Kindle Colorsoft which I love for the convenience. I sometimes buy physical books still but 95% of the books I buy are 2-3 dollar Kindle sales.

I’m not sure I’d recommend the Kindle Colorsoft to someone unless they plan on reading comic books. Having color on the book covers in your library is nice and maybe a map or two in a fantasy book might have color, but I wouldn’t say it’s really necessary, unless you have the extra money and are like me and just want the newest tech.

 

Kobo has a pretty nifty, unknown feature that also includes audiobooks for some of their books.

 

Finished reading The Black Company this morning. Loved it! Thanks again @theagentcoma, this was really great. I'll come back to book two a little later on this year. Excited for it.

 

Started the next Garden Knight novella today.

 

!!

 

hyb (hell yeah brother)

 

I'm taking part in a two day sale today and tomorrow with a handful of other authors and my ebook is free!

Fantastical Adventures - Weekend Sale

no strings attached, just a free ebook! sale ends tomorrow with the weekend!

 

Finished Wind and Truth. Not sure what everyone else thought but I had a really good time with it and I’m intrigued by the events that wrapped up the first act or whatever he calls books 1-5.

i really need to read Mistborn. I read the first one way back in the day and enjoyed it but never continued with it for reasons I don’t remember. Probably just got sidetracked with other books.

 

Yeah I thought W&T was a blast. Great way to wrap up the arc and it leaves a lot to explore in the next books.

I’m excited that we’re getting a break from SA for a bit though. Emberdark looks so good and then more Mistborn is always great.

 

I am now on Rhythm of War. Want to work through Stormlight in full before I deviate and go to something else that yall recommended. Probably gonna be either LOTR or Red Rising.

 

I started The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman of the Magicians fame. Anyone read it?

 

I have it on my TBR thanks to a recommendation from @Brother Beck, who really liked it.

 

yup - I reserved it from my library the second I heard Lev Grossman had a new book coming out and before I read that it was a take on Arthurian legend, and when I did find that out I was slightly disappointed and almost gave up on it before I started (especially when I saw the size of it). that would have been an enormous mistake, because I absolutely loved it. one of the best books I've read in a long time. for such a big book I was absolutely gutted when I reached the end simply because it was over

 

The Magicians is one of my all time favorite trilogies. I DNF’d The Bright Sword.

I swear I don’t always try to be an outlier.

 

hey, I almost DNS'd it, which I think is worse cuz you're not even giving the book a chance

Robert Jackson Bennett's Divine Cities trilogy is one of my all-time favorite series, and I loved both of his recent books The Tainted Cup & A Drop of Corruption (I'm not sure if they're still part of a trilogy Shadow of the Leviathan or if he's decided to leave it more open ended, because the newer book which just came out only lists itself as 'An Ana & Din Mystery') and I have been completely unable to get into his Foundryside trilogy. I've taken the first book out multiple times from my library and returned it having only gotten a few chapters in, and I tried the audiobook as well and did not like the person's voice at all and didn't make it thru that either. I even said to myself after finishing A Drop of Corruption recently and enjoying it so much that I should try Foundryside again, but I haven't been back to the library yet

 

Oh man, I recently bought the Foundryside books. @Nick was reading The Tainted Cup recently and Rec’d it iirc. Maybe things my sign to see if I’m contrarian again, haha.

 

there's a 90-95% chance I'm gonna grab Foundryside again this week when I go to the library! I'm on a high after finishing Drop of Corruption, and my library has a beautiful set of the entire Foundryside trilogy

I had a somewhat similar experience a while back with Gareth Hanrahan's book The Sword Defiant, where I had taken it out twice and not gotten very far into it either time before returning it unfinished, but I found the setup for the book and the world very intriguing. I ended up giving it another try and finished it and was extremely happy that I did and enjoyed it a lot

 

I enjoyed The Tainted Cup and loved A Drop of Corruption. I dropped Foundryside after like 6/7 chapters. I found the main two characters insufferable

 

@Brother Beck I recently read The Sword Defiant and loved it as well. Looking forward to book two soon (it’s by my bed) and book three releases in like a month I think.

 

in hindsight, I think I was slightly less interested in the storyline with Alf's sister & her son at the beginning and wanted to be with Alf & the rest of The Nine. once I decided to stick with it though I loved how everything played out

 

I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and I absolutely loved it. After I finished it, I ordered a copy of The Once and Future King to stay in the realm of Camelot.

 

I’ve owned the once and future king for so long and haven’t read it

 

I really should've gotten to my Ryan Cahill read faster (I've only read the first novella) because the FOMO I'll have not getting all these new editions he's teasing because I am trying to not buy things I don't want to own forever may overwhelm me.

 

yeah Cahill is a huge blind spot for me

Then again I'm too cheap to buy a $20 paperback lol