Top 5 Wednesday is a group on Goodreads hosted by Sam from Thoughts on Tome on Youtube.
So this week's prompt was to pick 5 books from our favorite genre that we think don't get the attention they deserve. So I love fantasy book, but more specifically fantasy romance, which is often hard to find since there really isn't a sub-genre easily searchable on most sites. So I decided to share some with you, I am also trying to pick a few different ones I don't mention often. I also want to note that these are adult fantasy romance, they do often have explicit scenes and may not be suitable for everyone. To not overload everyone I am going to share 3 individual series, each with multiple books, I could share 5 series but that just gets a little crazy.
Chronicles of the Warlands
So I totally inhaled this series back in 2011 and I raved about it a ton at the time but it did finally fade to the background with some new releases but I loved this series. I was looking for books I would like to re-read this year and discovered that a 5th book in this series was released in 2017! You better believe I will be heading back to the Warlands this year!
Blood and Shadows
This was a series that again I binge read back in 2013 and while my ratings did go down a bit with each book, they still come to mind often. There is a 5th book in the series that at the time I was unable to track down due to publishing issues, but I know Joely Sue Burkhart has gotten rights back on a lot of her books and is getting them out there again so I hope I can revisit this series and complete it at some point.
Five Hundred Kingdoms
This is a series I read before starting blogging or even goodreads, I think I only got through the 3rd book, all that was published at the time. This is a fun series of fairy tale retellings with an adult twist and a fun way to link them all. I do plan to re-read this series at some point, there are now I believe 6 books in the series, but I had lent out my copies and they were never returned. Time to go book shopping I guess!
So what are some of your hidden gems? Do you have any to add to my TBR list?!
Can you believe I’ve never read a Mercedes Lackey novel before? I suppose it’s because I didn’t like or read fantasy for the first half of my life.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of her books are older and a bit dated, and aren't often in the main stream bookstores but I really enjoy the way she incorporates romance into her fantasy but without taking over the story.
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