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Recommend a fantasy series (NBR)

kelly321kelly321 member
in February 2013 Moms

My birthday's coming up, and I love reading fantasy series. I've read the major ones and am looking for recommendations of other authors. My one criterion is that if it's a series, I want it to already be finished. I had an awful time with Jordan's Wheel of Time series, which I started reading in the mid-90s. With sometimes 2 years between books, I just couldn't remember the complicated plot lines. Last summer I finally re-bought them all, read them, and was prepared for the final book this spring, but I don't want to start a series again only to have to wait years for the next book. I prefer to just wait until it's finished, not knowing what I'm missing :-)

Here's what I've already read:

- LOTR (Tolkien - loved it)

- WOT (Jordan - loved it)

- Sword of Truth (Goodkind - loved it slightly less than the others, mainly because the long speeches in the later books annoyed me)

- started Game of Thrones series, liked it then realized it wasn't finished and stopped reading it, but will continue once he's done

- Tad Williams' series (love, love, love them, and I have every book he's written)

- Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series and a few of his other individual novels (also love his writing and ideas)

I think that's it... so if you've got something else to recommend, please do!

ETA: Oh yeah, and I just finished the Dragonriders of Pern series and I've read almost all of Terry Brooks' Shannara novels


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Re: Recommend a fantasy series (NBR)

  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member

    If you like all those, you have to read The Dark Tower series by Stephen King!!!!!  I promise you will fall in love!

     

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    If you like all those, you have to read The Dark Tower series by Stephen King!!!!!  I promise you will fall in love!

     

    I've read up to book 4, but again, that was a series that I started before it was done. I think he has finished now, though, right?

    ETA: I think I stopped reading the series when I read either in the forward or in something else that he said he would continue to write the series until he died, so it would never be finished. That's when I said no way - I don't want to read a series that will never be concluded! Has he changed his mind and finished it in the meantime?


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    And ps - I'm signing off for the evening (time to go to bed on this side of the Atlantic!), so I won't be able to respond to any more suggestions tonight, but I will eagerly read them when I get up in the morning!

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    It's finished now.  You should start over and read them all - won't be disappointed!

     ETA:  there are 7 books.

    I also liked the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.

     

     

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  • WinterBensonWinterBenson member

    Harry Potter. The themes are much more than just for kids. 

    Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. Really really good!!  

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    Outlander series not done yet, but put it on your list. The "hero" in it is my literary love affair. I should change my name to Mrs. Jamie Fraser.


    My husbands' name is James and after reading this series I started calling him Jamie and tried to convince him into buying a kilt. He didn't go for it.

    Another one to add to the list is The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. There's two books out now and the third and final book is supposed to be finished by next year. Very good read.
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  • Jen6862Jen6862 member
    My number one recommendation is the Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marrilier. Just the first three books. Love, love it. The second book in the set is even better than the first!
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  • RosebeanRosebean member

    When I was younger I liked The Troy Games by Sara Douglass

    For Adult Fanatasy, I love JR Ward and my fav is Karen Marie Moning Fever Series

    For Teen Fantasy, I also love Tamora Pierce Lionnes Series and Wild Magic series.

     

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  • kelly321kelly321 member

    Thanks for all the suggestions!

    I have read Outlander (I got to book 6 or 7 before I realized it's not finished!!) and also love it. :-) I don't know that I would have categorized it as fantasy, which is probably why I didn't think to add it to my list. But you're right, I did really like it, and Jamie Fraser... dreamy sigh...

    I've also read all the Harry Potter series and liked it.

    Now I'll just make a note of all of your suggestions and work my way through them. :.-) I'm a fast reader, so I love the epic series, but individual books by authors with good quality ideas / writing are also welcome. I'm excited to get started!


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  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member

    Not a series:  Nightfall    Also, a kid's chapter book you can read in a hour is The Giver  (Read with my 4th graders, pretty good.)

     

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  • PnkDingoPnkDingo member
    Witches of Eileanan, and the sequel Rhiannon's Ride trilogy, both by Kate Forsyth, if you like macabre, Ghosts in the Snow, Threads of Malice, and Valley of the Souls by Tamara Siler Jones....they can be harder to find but we found them for my mom's kindle when I got put on bedrest (I've worn out my paperback copies because they've been read and re-read). Those ones are like castle-era CSI ghost stories.
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    PS, totally bookmarking this thread until I can get a pen and paper and write all these down!
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  • SidraJediSidraJedi member
    I'm reading The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, the Merlin Bio in her Arthurian series. I am surprised by how much I like it. I have the rest of the series on my bookshelf waiting. I love Mary Stewart but I usually like a bit of Science Fiction with my Fantasy, like the Leigh Brackett series, Eric John Stark, that I just finished last month.
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  • SidraJediSidraJedi member

    I saw pp also recc'd the Mary Stewart series!

    Also, I second the Dark Materials.

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  • VespahVespah member
    If you are interested in Camelot even a tiny bit the series 'A Dream of Eagles' by Jack Whyte is very very good.
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