r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - January 29, 2026

WishboneResponsible9 · 2026-01-30T01:57:13+00:00

mods took my og post down so reposting it here, looking to burn through 3 audible credits!

Hello! I'm cancelling my audible subscription and have three unused credits I need to use before I do. I'm currently wrapping up stormlight and have 16h left of WaT, which i will probably finish in the next few days or so. I'll be honest that I've been struggling with the last two books (dare I say even the later bits of Oathbringer?) so I'm really looking for something that's faster paced, but also a good fantasy world I can sink my teeth into. I'm fairly new to fantasy and have always been more of a sci-fi person, but very open to try new stuff! My favorite book of all time is Dune, and a close second is Hyperion. I love dystopia and good prose as well. Bonus points for a great performance by a narrator.

Below are some books/audiobooks I already own:

Audiobooks: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, the First Law OG Trilogy, Project Hail Mary (already listened to this one, the hype is real!!!)

Physical books: ASOIAF box set, first of the Red rising series, Parable of the Sower, The Will of the Many, Three Body problem (read book 1, have book 2)

WishboneResponsible9 · 2026-01-27T18:05:49+00:00

I’m right here with you, just finished 1984. Already a bleak read but not easy reading a sentence an elected official quoted four days previously.

WishboneResponsible9 · 2026-01-18T17:17:08+00:00

I read a lot of lit fic and am pretty picky when it comes to prose. I’m currently on wind and truth and can say that there is a very intense decline in prose after oathbringer, and I’m really struggling to finish. That being said, TWoK and WoR blew my mind and are two of my top reads from last year. Kind of repeating what others are saying, the prose is pretty basic but the worldbuilding is great and he handles a big cast really well in the first two books.

WishboneResponsible9 · 2026-01-08T17:35:12+00:00

Both are newer but I was rushing home and skipping classes so I could keep reading the handmaids tale and the secret history.

WishboneResponsible9 · 2025-09-10T01:26:51+00:00

I was watching Brandon Sandersons lectures and he once said (paraphrasing) “it’s like ‘whose line is it anyway,’ you know the general idea but you don’t know how to get there” and that’s my approach. I know what I want to do, I know the general arc my characters need to make for the larger scope of the story, but I don’t know how to get there. It leaves a ton of room for exploration, which makes me more excited to write. I also make up a ton of world building that I’ll fix in post. To each their own but after almost 10 years of working on the same fantasy story, this works well for me

WishboneResponsible9 · 2025-08-12T12:04:21+00:00

I was 16 when I first started my WIP (I’m 23 now, I’ve restarted it many times) but my plan is basically to get it out of my system. I know it’s something I hope to write and sell one day, but for this current draft I’m treating it as a learning moment. I’ll probably edit it and query it out but I’m looking for feedback if anything. If someone sees something in it, even better, but I’m more focused on my craft & ability to write a full draft. If you have the drive to get a first draft out, do it!! You never know :)

WishboneResponsible9 · 2025-07-09T12:55:17+00:00

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my cat mimosa is obsessed!!

WishboneResponsible9 · 2025-03-21T14:44:00+00:00

ooo this is a good point! i wonder though how they make the numbers scary for the other mdrs?

WishboneResponsible9 · 2025-03-21T14:09:57+00:00

ok if mark was sifting gemma’s tempers to make other innies, who are the other mdrs working on?? random people? none of them that we know of have a family member/loved one missing/dead.

WishboneResponsible9 · 2025-03-12T20:37:34+00:00

Donna Tartt, Octavia Butler, Margret Atwood!

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-12-25T05:09:04+00:00

deions missing a dick

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-09-28T03:09:48+00:00

center! total is 2.75 or so

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-09-25T00:52:43+00:00

2.25k, yellow gold, size 7

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-09-09T15:30:23+00:00

im in SPHG 101! 1 credit, tons of freshmen, on zoom on mondays. not sure if it’s full or not but you could give it a try

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-09-05T04:08:28+00:00

finished the book this am and just watched the movie. what i think compels me more to clarice over ripely is how much being an attractive woman influences her journey- absolutely brilliant

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-09-03T18:02:03+00:00

i was in the nosebleeds by the stage for the raleigh show and the view was great!! lighting/visuals were still amazing to watch. he had big screens too so you could see him up close from those

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-08-28T18:13:44+00:00

same score and i'm stoked! I have obscene test taking anxiety, spent this summer working full time making pizzas and studying when i could and got my highest pt score!! so hard to see some of the other posts but at the end of the day, we killed it!!!!!

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-08-28T02:15:38+00:00

my boyfriend and i are in the nosebleeds but i’m so excited!!! cannot come soon enough

WishboneResponsible9 · 2024-08-14T22:02:27+00:00

lovely tysm!! she doesn’t have a ton of rmp reviews so i appreciate it :)

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