The past couple of years have been a mix of reading for me, but fantasy is ALWAYS my biggest read genre. So in 2023 I want to complete some of the big fantasy series I’ve had on my shelf for a while.
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
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After reading the first couple of books in the Wheel of Time series I really want to continue reading them. Whilst there’s 14 whole books, which is 12 more I need to read… I’m going to try and take them slowly as they’re such big books.
Blurb:
Written by Robert Jordan and completed posthumously by Brandon Sanderson, The Wheel of Time is one of the greatest epics of fantasy and a #1 internationally bestselling series. Taking place both in our past and our future, the saga tells the story of a man destined to face the Evil One and save the world—or destroy it in the process.
Another series that I’ve started but not finished is the Witcher series. I’ve loved the first two books I read, and I adore the tv show and games so I’m sure I’ll love the books too.
Blurb:
Meet Geralt of Rivia – the Witcher – who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games and a major Netflix show.
The Witcher’s magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.
Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.
But not everything monstrous-looking is evil; not everything fair is good . . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
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The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
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I started the Mistborn Trilogy last year, and whilst I loved the first book I just wasn’t in the right headspace for big fantasy novels. This is the year I’ll finish the trilogy though.
Blurb:
Mistborn is an epic fantasy trilogy and a heist story of political intrigue, surprises and magical martial-arts action. The saga dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge?
Am I obsessed with Andrzej Sapowski books? Maybe so. I’ll also be picking up the Hussite trilogy by him this year as I’ve now got all three books on my shelf.
Blurb:
Told with the same ironic twinkle and spirit of swashbuckling adventure that has helped to make the Witcher series such a phenomenal success, the second volume of the Hussite Trilogy brings to life the intrigue of the cut-throat streets of 15th century Europe as Reynevan’s story continues.
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I started Outlander whilst I was university but I gave up the books and watched the TV show as a distraction to my studies instead. This year I want to get back into the books however, and find out what happens to Claire and Jamie.
Blurb:
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord…1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
The Dwarves is a series I’ve been bought as gifts over the year, and I just have to pick up soon. I own the majority of the series I believe and I want to read as many as I can.
Blurb:
For countless millennia, no man or beast has ever succeeded in breaching the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Until now… Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith is the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. But when he is sent out into the world to deliver a message and reacquaint himself with his people, the young foundling finds himself thrust into a battle for which he has not been trained. Not only his own safety, but the life of every man, woman and child in Girdlegard depends upon his ability to embrace his heritage. Although he has many unanswered questions, Tungdil is certain of one thing: no matter where he was raised, he is a true dwarf. And no one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.
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The Memoirs of Lady Trent were a second hand gift from a friend, and whilst my copies are slightly chewed by bunnies… I do think I’ll love these dragon filled stories.
Blurb:
You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon’s presence, even for the briefest of moments—even at the risk of one’s life—is a delight that, once experienced, can never be forgotten. . . .
