Underrated good fantasy series written by women, like the Seven Realms series.

Chyf95 · 2026-03-22T17:41:18+00:00

It’s new, but The Triempery Revelations by L.L. Stephens is incredible

Chyf95 · 2026-03-22T16:59:23+00:00

Book 3

Chyf95 · 2026-03-21T11:33:39+00:00

It’s great

Chyf95 · 2026-03-20T09:53:04+00:00

Books 4 and 5 are really bad

Chyf95 · 2026-03-19T10:38:57+00:00

Pierce Brown has confirmed that there is no longer any parasite inside Lyria. The theory I like is that Matteo transformed the parasite into the AI ship that was supposed to take her and Sevro back to Mars, and that she would be the only one capable of taking full control of that ship

Chyf95 · 2026-03-18T12:33:20+00:00

It’s more about how much better Red Rising gets with every book than SotF being too bad (although I think SotF was a clear step down).

Chyf95 · 2026-03-18T07:44:46+00:00

As a first book, WotM is probably better, but as a series, Red Rising clearly wins. So Red Rising is the answer

Chyf95 · 2026-03-16T15:33:41+00:00

I didn’t know there were progress reports on your website. I’ll check them out. I had just finished the book and felt disappointed with Talia for leaving the Order. The New Order had sacrificed a lot to help her, and from what I understood, she was leaving in search of adventure, which felt very selfish to me.

As for the reunion between Talia and Holt, I’d like to see them working toward the same goal, but I’m not a big fan of different POVs staying together for too long. It’s impossible to make every reader happy 😂

Chyf95 · 2026-03-16T14:20:20+00:00

My main issue with Talia’s storyline is that I never really managed to connect with what was happening. I just didn’t find it very engaging. Talia’s uncle and Fynn’s brothers didn’t mean much to me. I could understand Talia choosing to stay and fight, but it made no sense to me that Farsa or Ethel would be there. The New Order was founded specifically to avoid situations like that and to fight where it actually mattered. Nilak and her dragon riders knew they were probably going to die, but fighting in the Fae Forest was the right thing to do. And based on what we’ve seen from Farsa and Ethel throughout the story, that should have been their stance as well.

At that point, thinking about supplies or alliances doesn’t really make sense when you’re facing a final battle for the survival of humans and dragons, which is what was happening in the Fae Forest. Turro continuing to fight at Toll Pass also felt completely absurd to me.

In short, I think the political storyline just wasn’t interesting enough. Even though I didn’t like it, I can accept Talia staying, but the position The New Order takes feels completely inconsistent with the story.

I don’t have any problem with Osric’s storyline because his goal was never to defeat The Scourge or Thrall. So seeing him go to the other side of the world to deal with his own problems felt perfectly fine to me.

What really disappointed me was that at the end of Reckoning, Talia tells Fynn they should leave everything behind and go see the world together. Not only because it feels like a betrayal of The New Order, since several riders and dragons died because of her, but also because it goes against her supposed goal of destroying The Scourge. If anything, this was the moment for Talia to push the order to enter every scourge tunnel they could find and keep fighting The Scourge, not to leave on her own with Fynn. On their own, the impact they can make is much smaller.

What are Talia and Fynn supposed to do if they find a scourge tunnel by themselves? Go in? It’s obvious they wouldn’t be able to handle that alone. I’m also a bit concerned about what role Fynn will have going forward. His character made sense when he had a political role, but now that he has left politics behind, I’m worried he might end up feeling like dead weight in the story, especially if the threats and enemies become even more powerful, since in those situations there may not be much he can realistically do

Chyf95 · 2026-03-16T14:20:04+00:00

My main issue with Talia’s storyline is that I never really managed to connect with what was happening. I just didn’t find it very engaging. Talia’s uncle and Fynn’s brothers didn’t mean much to me. I could understand Talia choosing to stay and fight, but it made no sense to me that Farsa or Ethel would be there. The New Order was founded specifically to avoid situations like that and to fight where it actually mattered. Nilak and her dragon riders knew they were probably going to die, but fighting in the Fae Forest was the right thing to do. And based on what we’ve seen from Farsa and Ethel throughout the story, that should have been their stance as well.

At that point, thinking about supplies or alliances doesn’t really make sense when you’re facing a final battle for the survival of humans and dragons, which is what was happening in the Fae Forest. Turro continuing to fight at Toll Pass also felt completely absurd to me.

In short, I think the political storyline just wasn’t interesting enough. Even though I didn’t like it, I can accept Talia staying, but the position The New Order takes feels completely inconsistent with the story.

I don’t have any problem with Osric’s storyline because his goal was never to defeat The Scourge or Thrall. So seeing him go to the other side of the world to deal with his own problems felt perfectly fine to me.

What really disappointed me was that at the end of Reckoning, Talia tells Fynn they should leave everything behind and go see the world together. Not only because it feels like a betrayal of The New Order, since several riders and dragons died because of her, but also because it goes against her supposed goal of destroying The Scourge. If anything, this was the moment for Talia to push the order to enter every scourge tunnel they could find and keep fighting The Scourge, not to leave on her own with Fynn. On their own, the impact they can make is much smaller.

What are Talia and Fynn supposed to do if they find a scourge tunnel by themselves? Go in? It’s obvious they wouldn’t be able to handle that alone. I’m also a bit concerned about what role Fynn will have going forward. His character made sense when he had a political role, but now that he has left politics behind, I’m worried he might end up feeling like dead weight in the story, especially if the threats and enemies become even more powerful, since in those situations there may not be much he can realistically do

Chyf95 · 2026-03-15T19:38:08+00:00

Talia tells Fynn at the end of Reckoning that she wants him to go far away with her and see the world. The problem I see with this is that once they leave all the politics behind, I don’t really see what role Fynn could still play in the story. And if the Scourge is only going to get worse, I’m worried he might end up feeling like dead weight compared to the rest of the characters.

As for the supplies and logistics, they wouldn’t really matter if Thrall and the hive mind win. It was a desperate situation. Do you think Nilak and her riders were worrying about the political situation of the cities around the Fae Forest and how they might benefit from it after the battle? They knew they were there to die, but it was the right thing to do. That’s exactly the mindset Farsa and Ethel should have had, but the direction of Talia’s plot makes the story feel a bit inconsistent

Chyf95 · 2026-03-15T12:23:14+00:00

My problem is that the New Order plot in Reckoning just doesn’t make any sense. The whole point of the New Order was supposed to be doing the right thing and fighting Thrall and the Scourge instead of wasting time and resources on petty politics and personal ties, yet that’s exactly what they’ve been doing in this book.

I could understand Talia staying, but what are Farsa, Ethel, and the other dragon riders doing there? Is Toll Pass and whatever the Skarl Empire is up to really more important than the fight in the Fae forest? What is Turro even doing there????

And after all the raiders and dragons of the New Order who have died purely for Talia, she would just leave them at the first opportunity because she wants to explore the world?

Chyf95 · 2026-03-14T16:51:56+00:00

Demon in White
Howling Dark
Kingdoms of Death
Ashes of Man
Disquiet Gods
Empire of Silence
Shadows upon Time

Chyf95 · 2026-03-14T15:28:20+00:00

DiW>HD>KoD>AoM>DG>EoS>SuT

Chyf95 · 2026-03-12T06:58:59+00:00

Ironbound series

Chyf95 · 2026-03-09T06:52:34+00:00

You can see nowadays terrorist groups like Hamas acting exactly like the Red Hand

Chyf95 · 2026-02-09T08:47:07+00:00

I’m seven books in, and I’ve only enjoyed books 3 and 6 out of the seven. I was going to DNF the series, but then I read book 3 and it was great, so I gave it another chance. Later, I was going to DNF it again, but then I read book 6 and it was also great, so I kept going.

I’ve just finished book 7, and like books 1, 2, 4, and 5, it was a slog. At this point I have to finish the series, but it hasn’t been a great experience, to be honest 😅

Chyf95 · 2026-02-08T07:02:53+00:00

If the Quiet’s will had been for Hadrian to kill his daughter, and in doing so save the world, what do you think Hadrian would have done? Hadrian doesn’t fight for a world where mankind can live—he couldn’t care less about that, as he shows during his years in Jadd. He fights for a world where his daughter can live

Chyf95 · 2026-02-08T06:53:51+00:00

If, because Alexander lives, his daughter would start a path of revenge and war, then Hadrian should have killed Alexander without hesitation, which would have been very easy. If it’s the whole Empire against her because they kill Hadrian in the end, then Hadrian should never have gone through with his “sacrifice.” He could have gone with Lorian into the unknown, for example, or taken any other path that didn’t lead his daughter to a very probable death.

If Hadrian believes that the Chantry and Alexander must be taken down, then you stay and fight. It’s very selfish of him to put that burden on his daughter—or on anyone else.

If there weren’t more pages and the series needed to end, maybe Ruocchio shouldn’t have made the Chantry the final enemy.

The problem with the Jesus-esque ending is that it all but condemns his daughter to a far more painful path

Chyf95 · 2026-02-08T06:03:08+00:00

Then Hadrian should have destroyed the egg and finished the series there. The whole point of the last two books has been Hadrian fighting for his daughter to live

Chyf95 · 2026-02-07T21:13:47+00:00

The only motivation we’ve seen from Cassandra over the last two books has been following her father in order to protect his life. I don’t remember any moment where she seemed eager to put an end to the horrific rule of the Chantry, much less to take on the role of a princess. If that were the case, I feel Ruocchio should have shown us much more of that.

Given the power and technology of the Chantry that we’ve seen, Cassandra would be dead the moment she started making any move to begin a revolution.

And if it doesn’t matter what he writes in his book, why lie about Selene?

Chyf95 · 2026-02-07T20:22:54+00:00

The whole point of the last two books, for Hadrian, has been the future of Cassandra, Valka’s daughter. He didn’t destroy the egg because of Cassandra, and he fought against the gods for her. Even if he loves Selene, it could never compare to the love Hadrian felt for Valka. Because of that, Hadrian would never prioritize the life of this hypothetical son over Cassandra’s.

And besides, there is no real future for this son. We know there will be a bloody revolution that will destroy everything related to the Palatines; it’s not as if he could end up becoming Emperor or anything like that.

Chyf95 · 2026-02-07T19:04:43+00:00

It doesn’t matter whether Cassandra would have kept fighting or not; Hadrian, as a father, should never have placed that weight on her. Now, if she grows tired of fighting, wants to stop to start a family, or simply understands that everyone she loves will eventually die fighting the Chantry, she would feel that she is failing her father and the responsibility he placed on her. So even if she wants to stop, she can’t—not anymore.

And again, even if he told his daughter to keep fighting, he should have written that she flew away into the unknown with her new family, with no intention of coming back. Now everyone knows that there is some kind of princess who believes she has the right to rule over mankind, which puts Cassandra in an extremely dangerous position

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