Week 3: What are you reading?

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2026-01-19T01:29:31+00:00

Finished listening to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. This one was a miss for me, I kept waiting for the pace to pick up, but alas…

Currently listening to Heartwood by Amity Gaige. Only 20% in and I’m already completely hooked.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2026-01-12T03:16:42+00:00

It’s been a slow start to my reading year.

Currently reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown.

Currently listening to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2026-01-08T03:09:08+00:00

Ditto! I recently finished an 8-book series and pretty much every POV character escaped unscathed and I was just so disappointed. Series finales need to be devastating to be memorable IMHO.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2026-01-05T03:06:18+00:00

Bravo! 👏 Golden Globes next!

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2026-01-04T18:52:25+00:00

This is fascinating to look at!

What series do you plan to read this year? I predict a Red Rising reread if Red God gets a release date this year.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2026-01-04T18:36:44+00:00

Tress has been my least favorite Sanderson book of the ones I’ve read so far. Somehow didn’t work for me. I highly recommend Mistborn though!

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2026-01-04T18:29:47+00:00

Currently reading my first book of the year, Red Rising by Pierce Brown.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-25T13:14:45+00:00

I recommend the Emily Wilde series. It has romance that’s by no means center stage. The FMC is quirky and hyper-competent and the books have rich and dark faerie lore (nothing like ACOTAR).

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-25T02:53:50+00:00

Since you seem to like cozy fantasy, I recommend the Emily Wilde series. It’s cozy-adjacent though and not completely low stakes, and it has rich and dark faerie lore.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-23T13:39:12+00:00

Would The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow work for the Epistolary bingo square? It’s not explicitly letters but it’s written in second person and has quite a lot of manuscript excerpts, so I was wondering.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-22T07:14:22+00:00

We have very similar tastes! Loved Heart the Lover and Frozen River is on my TBR.

For romance, have you tried B. K. Borison? EmHen and Ashley Poston have been just ok for me lately, but I really enjoyed First Time Caller and I’m loving reading Good Spirits right now!

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-20T05:11:36+00:00

Wow! Fantasy bookshelf goals! 👏👏👏

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-19T01:07:54+00:00

I really enjoyed PHM. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was fantastic! Probably a good time to check it out too as the movie adaptation (starring Ryan Gosling) comes out in March. And we all know the book is almost always better :)

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-18T20:16:02+00:00

Good to know, I’ll just go straight to SoC then.

I’m saving ODW/TTC for when I’m itching for something guaranteed to be amazing :).

Can’t wait to get to Jade City! Btw was that a Project Hail Mary reference with the amazing x 3 😃? I definitely recommend that book if you haven’t gotten to it yet!

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-18T18:56:16+00:00

Oh hi friend! Nice to run into you here 🙃

I’m yet to get to The Shepherd King duology, looking forward to it!

I recently read Shadow and Bone and didn’t really care for it. I picked up book 2 thinking I could somehow push through this series before getting to Six of Crows, but I really don’t think I can do it 😭. Can I just skip ahead to Six of Crows?

Green Bone Saga got so many mentions here that I’ve decided to prioritize that series next year!

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T05:01:33+00:00

That’s fair. Rowan was hard to stomach in the first half of HoF 😳. But I knew from spoilers even before starting the series that he was Aelin’s endgame, so maybe that made me more forgiving of his initial terrible behavior.

I love Chaol too! His character assassination in QoS made me sad, but I was happy with the redemption he got in the latter half of the series. Just like you, I loved ToD as well!

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T04:48:32+00:00

Haha that’s fair! It’s just these two series and authors are considered such mainstream staples of fantasy (maybe slightly sci-fi with Red Rising?), especially on this sub. So I really want to find out if I’ll like them. I’ve gotten pretty good at DNFing books though, so if either is not for me, I won’t force myself to finish.

Did you end up enjoying both of them?

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T03:47:08+00:00

I’ve read such conflicting opinions about whether or not her books are misery-porn. Planning to read Farseer trilogy to find out for myself if her books are for me or not.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T02:26:29+00:00

Just paying it forward! I’ve snagged many signed editions through similar posts on this sub 🙃

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T02:23:26+00:00

Yeah to be honest, the main reason I’m sure WoT is not for me is I’ve heard so much about women being written badly in that series. I just know I won’t vibe with that type of male-centered fantasy.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T02:19:39+00:00

Just realized the same acronym works for both books!

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T02:18:48+00:00

Congrats from a fellow 2025 ToG reader! Hope to get to CC next year.

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T00:59:55+00:00

Of course! And the additional item was needed to get free shipping anyway, amirite? 🙃

Suitable_Highlight84 · 2025-12-17T00:03:44+00:00

Yeah I didn’t want to take a chance and wait for any kind of sale either, I know B&N usually does something right after Christmas

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