Top Five Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the lovely Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm where bookworms get to chat about their top five books based on different topics.
It’s Mandy here! I’m taking over the Top 5 Tuesday for this week for Sha. We’re talking Top 5 Fantasies today. I usually go back and forth on how I like my fantasies. Sometimes high fantasies get really complex and they go WAY over Mandy’s head. Light fantasies where there is some sense of the regular world is usually how I dive into mine. I fangirl over these book routinely so I’ll limit the fangirling to a minimum today and just let us gaze upon their wonderful covers. Here are a few that I love – high and low!
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
These Viscous Masks by Kelly Zekas & Tarun Shanker
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
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Which fantasy books are some of your favorites?
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I totally agree with you about high fantasy’s! I really want to read them sometimes, but they also tend to be suuuuuper long and a lil’ bit confusing 😅 Two of my favorite fantasies are The Name of the Wind and The Lies of Locke Lamora
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Yessssssssssss. Some are just so interesting, but your brain fully has to be on. You have to read every little facet and everything for it. But I’ve head Name of the Wind is just so brilliant. I haven’t heard of the other, so I will have to check it out! 🙂
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The only book I read from your list is «The Lightning Thief», but the Darker Shade of Magic and Six of Crows are both on my TBR, hopefully, I’ll be able to read them this year *fingers crossed*
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Oooooh yes, fingers crossed for you too! They are really just so brilliantly done and highly immersive worlds to dive into.
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LOVE A Darker Shade of Magic!! And Percy Jackson is such a classic 🙂 I adore Lord of the Rings, The Golden Compass, and Eragon ❤
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Yessssssssss. That series was just so immersive and amazingly done. And it IS. Definitely transcends the time. Oooh, I haven’t read any of those, but I always meant to tackle Eragon.
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I swear one day I’ll read that Six of Crow ;-))))
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Ahahaha, there are many books that tend to get before it. But I really think you enjoy, Sophie! 🙂
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oooh yesss i LOVE the ADSOM series!! One of my all time favs for sure! Also Six of Crows is totally fabulous.. that book is pure genius I love it!! I almost read these Vicious masks (I might even have the book somewhere??) but haven’t gotten around to it yet but since you loved it so much I might just have too! (I also desperately need to read Grave Mercy bc you keep raving about it and are making it sound AMAZING!!) Great list Mandy 🙂
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Yessssssss I totally agreeeeeeeee, Jamie. They were both so brilliant. And oooooh yes! I was a bit skeptical of These Vicious Masks at first, but it actually was funny, wholly intriguing, super easy to read, and had a love triangle that worked??? It really worked. AND YESSSSSSSssss. I will forever screech about it, lol. Thank you, Jamie!!
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I was surprised by how much I adored SoC. Bardugo’s writing was incredible.
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Yesssssssss. I would just sit there and go, but that’s just so prettttyyy. Definitely a master with it. Did you read her Grisha series, too, Sam?
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I have NOT read any other books by Bardugo, though my daughter thought I should have read the Grisha series before SoC
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This is such a great list. Of all of these I’ve only never read These Vicious Masks? I might go check it out now though. And totally agree with Six of Crows, it’s my favourite!!
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Thank you! And yesssss. SOC is just so brilliant. And These Vicious really is super unknown, but it has a super cool setting, easy to read writing, a X-Men Victorian London plot, and a love triangle that actually really worked???
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Okay, you had me at X-Men Victorian London 😊
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Choosing my top 5 fantasy would be nearly impossible for me. But I mean Narnia and SoC are definitely up there. Add in An Ember in the Ashes but from there I really don’t know where to go, there are so many good choices!
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Ikkkkkkkkkkkkk. I’m like, I must limit myself to only those on my immediate favorite shelf and then picking a random one. But YES. There are so many good ones out there.
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I still need to read grave mercy and these vicious masks! Great list
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Yessssssssssss. They are both super brilliant. Thank you!! 🙂
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I’m a total sucker for anything Rick Riordan has ever written and I recently discovered the wonderful Leigh Bardugo. So I’m totally with you on your picks!
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Yesssssssssss. He just continues to bring out so so many great reads. And And yessssss. She really does have a wonderful writing style.
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