daykee

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[–] daykee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed it! I’m not sure I liked it as much as the first one, I think the pacing in that one for me was a little bit better, but am excited to see what Broadbent writes next in that world. I’m newer to the Romantacy genre (have only read the ACOTAR series and Fourth Wing) but have already had a lot of fun with the books I’ve read so far.

[–] daykee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hopped around a few different genres but really enjoyed all the books I read in June:

  • The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
  • The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  • Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
[–] daykee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In 2015 a buddy of mine basically shoved Elantris, Way of Kings, and Words of Radiance at me and said "You gotta read some Sanderson, he's the next big guy in fantasy." I started with Elantris and really enjoyed it, but admit that I was intimidated by how chonky Stormlight was and so they gathered dust for the next 5 years.

When 2020 rolled around, I had a lot of free time and decided to finally give Sanderson another try and picked up Era 1 of Mistborn instead of Stormlight to ease into the Cosmere and instantly fell in love. That was pretty much the jumping off point because I then went right into Stormlight (which have since become my favorite books of all time) and after that I went and read everything else in the Cosmere. It even pushed me to read Wheel of Time which I finished at the end of last year and had a blast reading (I didn't think the infamous slog was that bad tbh). So here I am waiting for SP3 to come out so I can get my fix of more Sanderson...