Dec 22, 2025
some kind of nerd wrote this fantasy novel
seen from Japan
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some kind of nerd wrote this fantasy novel
What series should I read first? 📚📖📙
Dune
Wheel of Time
All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches)
Deverry Cycle
Micaela Alcaino’s illustrated book covers for Katharine Kerr’s Deverry Cycle: Daggerspell, Darkspell, Dawnspell (The Bristling Wood) and Dragonspell (The Dragon Revenant).
Got a nice little book haul from the library’s sale
Mercedes Lackey:
Heralds of Valdemar: Arrows of the Queen, Arrow’s Flight, and Arrow’s Fall
The Last Herald Mage: Magic’s Pawn, Magic’s Price (they didn’t have the second book, though)
Royal Assassin and Assassin’s Quest - Robin Hobb
Hunting Party - Elizabeth Moon
Daggerspell - Katharine Kerr
The Price of the Stars - Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
Empire in Black and Gold - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Phylogenesis and Diuturnity’s Dawn - Alan Dean Foster
The Longest Way Home - Robert Silverberg
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin (yes, THAT Steve Martin)
The White Lioness and The Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell
Alaska - James A. Michener
Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett (omnibus)
Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, and Coyote Waits - Tony Hillerman (another omnibus)
Sanibel Flats - Randy Wayne White
15 Travis McGee novels that I’m not going to list because it’s 15 books - John D. MacDonald
putting my new grimoire down and sighing as i find it is nothing but sorceric jargon written by dark practitioners blowing air
OK so I finished the first seven books in the Deverry Cycle and I have thoughts TM
1) Yes I started reading a what XD 16 novel series because I love a song. No I am not normal about the song or the one who sings it moving on.
2) Said song is about a very cool girl and we'll keep it at that and we'll skip the whole doomed lovers turned teacher/student via reincarnation because eh. Not a fan of the guy tbh I mean he's a little shit which is fun but eh. Not here for the romance side of it (which btw thank God it changed in time to a more platonic thing because it would have been weird af)
3) Kinda funny how bards are a big thing in this, like not main characters per se but they do play a big part
4) A lot more funnier than that basically there are 2 kickass ladies who went fuck having a husband let's study magic. Honestly good for them
5) On that note - WHY.ISN'T.JILL/DALLANDRA. A. THING
6) On the same note. Let me rephrase this for you. You have one human girl who is very attuned to nature and magic and who goes eh fuck my love life let's study magic. Then you have another girl who is an elf and she leaves her partner to study magic but also because a guy told her so. And said guy is a pompous ass. (Still hope Dallandra will screw him and focus on the magic side, she came really close to this). But. But. Two girls leaving everything behind to focus on doing magic (together)? And again pompous ass being the one who kinda initiates one of them in magic? Look I can forgive Deverry cycle fans for not seeing this. But whyyyyyyy did the Sharja gang sleep on this in 2014 😭