What are your 3 fav books/book series and why? 👀
You're making me choose between children again. How dare you. Well, I guess I'll give it a try.
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon has got to be up there. This series is so incredibly underrated and more people should read it. It's so well-thought out and should be way more of a staple of the sword & sorcery genre than it is. The author has a degree in the historical period she writes about and it shows in the detail and accuracy. I want to talk to more people about it but there's only like. Five people on tumblr that have heard of it, and I can't convince most of my friends to read it for whatever reason (there are only three books in the original series, but there are ten total novels and three collections of short stories, and I guess people don't want to commit. Plus the audiobooks are hard to find anywhere but Audible.)
Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey is a book I came back to last year or the year before after having read it as a teenager, and to my surprise, I adored it in a way I haven't adored a book in a long time. It technically takes place in the same universe as her Dragonriders of Pern books, but is completely standalone and separate. I'm not sure what about it catches me so much. I love the descriptions and they way she writes, I love the idea of the space crystal stuff, I love that nothing truly bad ever really happens to the protagonist--and even though she's kind of an entitled bitch who gets everything handed to her by natural aptitude, I just like reading about her life. It was originally published serially in ten parts, and it has two sequels that I reread the descriptions of and have no interest in rereading. I just like it for itself.
The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris d'Lacey is. series I haven't reread in over a decade at this point, but it made such a strong impact on me that I still consider it among my favorites. It was the first book series I read that made me feel like I could be a writer, because it's about a writer. It's about how stories reshape the world. And also there's dragons! And the way it moves from a sort of "is this real magic?" to "let's throw in some fun physics theories along with this magic" just really got to me.
Honorable mentions: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Westmark, and Animorphs.
