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Top 7 Fantasy Book-Series Which Ended This Year
Listing the best Fantasy Book-Series which published their final instalment this year- Comprehensive list of the books to be read in the series and more.
Listing the best Fantasy Book-Series which published their final instalment this year- Comprehensive list of the books to be read in the series and more.
October is here and with that, we are into the last quarter of this year 2019. With the new month comes the excitement of going through some new books, discovering new authors, enjoying some best sellers… Basically, a fresh chance to just dive again in the Reading Ocean. So, without chitchatting Read more…
The second instalment of Amethysta Trilogy by Sara Secora has finally arrived. The first book in this fantasy series was launched in August 2016. I remember that I had liked the book back then. It was such a pleasant surprise when I received the ARC of Untoward Awakening. Although it has Read more…
I am a sucker for Fantasy Books. How much ever I read them, they are just not enough for me. I love being inside this bubble of fantasy. That is why, when I came across the topic of recommending books under #TheBookBlogTrain, I couldn’t help myself to bring out the Read more…
I chose to read ‘The Blood of Whisperers’ mainly because of the title. The title was unique and gave me the hope of a great fantasy. Keeping my hopes intact, I read the book and this is what I have to say now: Title: The Blood of Whisperers Author: Read more…
On the other day, as I chatted with my friend while going to the library in my neighbourhood; I casually told her about the book which I am going to issue. I stopped short as she turned towards me with an expression of mild annoyance and said “Again!?” And I Read more…
Title: The Girl in the Tower Series: Winternight Trilogy Genre: Fantasy, Folklore Author: Katherine Arden Source: ARC provided by the Penguin Random House The magical adventure began in ‘The Bear and the Nightingale’ continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman is forced to choose between marriage or life Read more…
Title: Rose Petal Graves
Author: Olivia Wildenstein
Series: The Lost Clan
Genre: Thriller Fantasy
Ancient secrets cannot remain buried forever.
Founded two centuries ago by a powerful tribe of Gottwa Indians, Rowan was a quiet town, so quiet that I fled after graduation. Staying away was the plan, but Mom died suddenly.
Dad said she suffered a stroke after she dug up one of the ancient graves in our backyard, which happens to be the town cemetery. Creepy, I know. Creepier still, there was no corpse inside the old coffin, only fresh rose petals.
As we made preparations for Mom’s burial, new people began arriving in Rowan, unnervingly handsome and odd people. I begged them to leave, but they stayed, because their enemies—my ancestors—were beginning to awaken.
Title: Caraval
Author: Stephanie Garber
Series: Caraval
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.
But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.
Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever.
Title: The Bear and the Nightingale
Author: Katherine Arden
Series: The Bear and the Nightingale
Genre: Fantasy, Folklore
Source: NetGalley
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.
After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.
And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.
As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and calls on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
(Source: Goodreads)