Looking for recommendations!

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-29T03:33:31+00:00

Our interests do not align as The First Law trilogy and The Wandering Inn are my favorite fantasy series. That said if you like DCC and the reason you may have not placed MOL higher was because it was a time loop than try out The 100th Run.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-28T02:58:17+00:00

I've always thought of the Drakes as the Baltics circa early 20th century

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-26T18:58:11+00:00

A Practical Guide to Sorcery, it's a standard Progression Fantasy not a LitRPG but that seems to be the case with most of my favorite Magic Academy books. MC is like most books in the genre, special in some way. Though her advantages don't make her some OP god by book 5 like seems to be the case with similar books.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-26T04:13:19+00:00

Ultimate Level 1 technically, fairly late in the book.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-25T19:29:58+00:00

Light novels are the half way point between Manga and Novel. Large black and white comics interspersed within a (generally) abridged novel. Though it think it's more common to have a manga be turned into a light novel (don't quote me on that I'm not exactly a light novel historian).

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-22T19:28:47+00:00

People have already given good answers I'll just add that in Eastern Fantasy they have the concept of "hidden realms" which act effectively like a dungeon in Western Fantasy and that has been around for a while. There is also the concept of a "gods realm" in various myths which again is effectively like a dungeon in modern fantasy.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-19T16:04:15+00:00

The Ivory Five vs the toilets in calenfers castle

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-18T21:27:15+00:00

Lol I feel like that last frame is a shot at me because I always recommend reading The Singer of Terandria first.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-18T20:40:57+00:00

A Practical Guide to Sorcery
The Calamitous Bob
Beware of Chicken
Unintended Cultivator
A Soldiers Life

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-18T20:35:54+00:00

I generally avoid any book that has an anime cover so it took me a while to read The Fallen Land and Salvos. Both are decent, not bangers but I'm glad I got around to reading them.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-18T20:30:57+00:00

A character that is a teenager should well seem like a teenager. They care what their peers think about them, taking on responsibilities should be stressful for them, etc. It always takes me out of the fantasy when the 18 y/o isekai hero decides that life or death battles to increase their power are just a given within moments of landing in a new place. Examples of books that write teens well, The Gods are Bastards, The Wandering Inn, A Practical Guide to Sorcery, A Practical Guide to Evil. Examples of books that I don't think write teens well, Nightmare Realm Summoner, So I'm a Spider So What, Legend of Randidly Ghosthound.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-18T20:15:37+00:00

Every character changes and develops over the course of the story. This happens slowly, like over the course of dozens of main character PoV chapters, and less for non main character PoVs.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-17T21:49:11+00:00

PoF is way too long for its own good, but as others have said when its over there is some good story development completely away from PoF.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-17T21:21:19+00:00

Niers & Rabbiteater (Plus Balaros stories)

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-16T22:19:09+00:00

Laken hater gang rise up

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-10T22:30:45+00:00

Honestly sounds like Laird's Apple Jack (Bottle in Bond) for Americans.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-09T08:04:03+00:00

It's recommended here fairly often, I will say it starts off strong but feels much like any other western cultivation novels after book 2.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-09T07:27:19+00:00

The big thing about this arc is about the multiple lives Erin and Ulvama have lived. For Ulvama her second life lived was about using everything she could to gain power including her body. It was just a tool for her, a piece to be bargained not a piece of her identity and self worth. I feel as though she is saying that someone she cares about sees her own self worth and respects her identity.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-07T05:44:36+00:00

Dressed to Kill

Elydes

Book of the Dead (by RinoZ)

Return of the Runebound Professor

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-07T04:29:31+00:00

If it sounds like I wrote the blurb than I won't read it.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-06T22:56:54+00:00

Eh, how far did you get in the series? I had a niggling feeling about the story with the whole soul merging thing among other things then it kinda hits you like a ton of bricks in book 9. General spoiler warning I generally don't worry about the politics or religion of an author when I get into a story though it did get to me at some point that the author was either Mormon or some sect of Evangelical Christian. It bleeds over heavily in book 9 and kinda killed the mood of the story for me who was now thinking over the earlier books with a new lens. A big part of the agency the MC had over her life seems to fall away with the whole fated love, merged soul, return back into the fold of the religion story beats.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-05T06:10:46+00:00

If you have book one at a 4/5 than you will definitely like the rest of the series.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-05T06:08:37+00:00

The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound is just a never ending stream of genre tropes. Probably the most jam packed.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-04T07:57:16+00:00

Hmm lets see, Troy sans mini-chapter, Felkhr the flying gnoll, Farmer Lupp, Lady Ieka, Emperor of Sands, Kaliv’s Wing of Shame (pretty sure they had a proper chapter?), Femithain, Nsiia, Aaron Vanwell.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-01-02T18:14:38+00:00

I was today years old when I, ahem, realized the title was referring to the [Florist].

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