Topic: Books You're Currently Reading?

@FuriousMachine let me how Dragon of Highlord Sky's is. I have been meaning to pick that up.
Myself finishing a fantasy book by a local author only 4 chapters in, but quite good called The book of fates desire by Ryan hampton

Finished "Fifth Business" ,the first book in the "Deptford Trilogy" by Robertson Davies. It was a thoroughly enjoyable read, highly recommend it. The second book in the trilogy , "The Manticore" appears to be equally engaging thus far. A lot of psychology in Davies' books, apparently.

@Elodin Will do! I can already tell you that I like it better than Dragons of the Dwarven Depths so far, but as with that, your enjoyment will come down to how much you like the original Chronicles. This trilogy is pretty much for die-hard fans only, I feel.
In this one we get to visit Icewall and meet Feal-Thas, who turned out to be a much more interesting character than I had imagined. We also get to read more about Kitiara's story, which is very welcome. I'm about half way through and it's on track for a four star review from me, if it sticks the landing.

Upgrade was a fantastic book. Just put it down now, I can't believe I read that after reading Sapiens. Will definitely read more of Blake Crouch's novels!

Next up I might finish up the Mistborn trilogy with The Hero of Ages.

@MightyDemon82 Glad you enjoyed it; Crouch has quite a few good books Can't remember if you read "Recursion" or not, but that's another really good one, in my opinion. My absolute favourite of his is the Wayward Pines trilogy; I enjoyed those immensely. There are those that didn't like them at all, though, so your mileage may vary, but I think they might be to your liking.

I've also read "Run", "Abandon" and "Snowbound" and while they're all good, I didn't like them as much as I did Pines, "Dark Matter", "Upgrade" and "Recursion". "Run" is probably the weakest, as I felt it was too similar to Pines and not nearly as good.

Bought a book called "The Golem & The Djinn". Really haven't made much progress last month due to real-life non-sense but I'm gonna get thru a few chapters tonight...if I can.

@FuriousMachine I will definitely read Pines and Recursion. Choosing my next read is a tough one, might do some manga/comics before I do another novel!

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot I looked it up and it looks pretty interesting. Would love to hear your thoughts on it when you're finished with it

Finished Dragons of the Highlord Skies (Goodreads page), the second book in the "Dragonlance: The Lost Chronicles" series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Reading a "new" (for me) entry in a saga that defined my years as a pre-teen and young teenager had me a bit skeptical going in, especially since I hadn't read anything in almost 30 years (except the occasional re-read of the original "holy six"). I wasn't really blown away by the first entry in this trilogy, but this one really hit the spot for me.
As this story is a "sidequel", there were a couple of too obvious redshirts in there, but they were engaging characters so I didn't mind all that much.
Maybe one my favourites in the series, and highly recommended for fans of the original "Dragonlance Chronicles"; I gave it 4.5 stars in my Goodreads review.

Now it's back to Peter May's "China Thrillers" with The Runner (Goodreads page), the fifth and penultimate entry.

I finished the first collected tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, which was excellent will read the second volume soon. Highly recommend if you like dark satirical fantasy, You don't have to have read the Malazan series to enjoy them.

I squeezed in volume 2 of Kaijumax and volume 7 of Fullmetal alchemist both fantastic.

Now I'm reading This is how you lose the time war. A fine short book before I dive into some big sci-fi or fantasy novel.

Still reading The Manticore by Robertson Davies. It's very good ,actually, I was a little put-off at first by the slow start as the entire novel seems to describe a series of therapeutic sessions with a Jungian analyst. But I am very interested in the concepts of Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. So I will endeavour to read on.

Just finished Dauntless by Jack Campbell. Good first book. I'm curious to see where it goes. Reminds me of the space chase seen in Battlestar Galactica or the more recent Star Wars movie.

@MightyDemon82 The Malazan books looks to be just my cup of tea, so I definitely check them out at some point

@Elodin Same goes for the Lost Fleet series.

Any of you have the key to immortality, by any chance? I think I'll need it to get through everything I want to read

Just finished Peter May's The Runner (Goodreads page), the penultimate novel in his "China Thrillers" series and after the slight disappointment I felt the previous entry was, this one worked very well for me. The action returns to China and both the mystery and the relationship drama was far more interesting this time around and I would say this is one of my favourites in the series. A minor quibble is that having seen a gajillion episodes of CSI, I was way ahead of our heroes on many of the puzzle pieces in this case, but it didn't impact my enjoyment of it in any meaningful way. I gave it four stars in my Goodreads review.

Now it's time to finish up Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's "Dragonlance: The Lost Chronicles" series with Dragons of the Hourglass Mage (Goodreads page) and if it is half as good as the second novel in the series, I'm in for a treat. Fingers crossed!

@FuriousMachine I'm looking forward to getting back into the China series. Currently reading Sunbringer, the follow up to Godkiller and before that I read This is how you lose the time war.

Maybe once I'm done with Sunbringer, I'll finally read The Hero of Ages then some of the China books!

Are the Dragonlance books all ages?

@MightyDemon82 I would say pre-teen/young adult (I read the first when I was 11/12), but for adults new to the series it may be a bit... I don't know, "unsophisticated" by today's standards, maybe?
My impression is that most adults reading and liking the books are those who grew up with it, like me.
And I have a sneaking suspicion that the original trilogy (which is essential reading for this series) may feel dated for kids already exposed to newer fantasy works. Different times and all that.

But, in all honesty, I have no idea how these novels would read to someone not heavily steeped in nostalgia here, young or old

I do know that the very first book in the series reads like a clunky novelization of a D&D campaign and you can almost hear the dice rolls, something I never noticed as a kid, but this is less of problem in the second and third books.

Some of my friends have recently recommended getting into Brandon Sanderson's books specifically the mistborn series. Anyone a fan of them or disliked it? I'm not a huge fantasy sci fi person so kinda hesitant given how long the books are.

@FuriousMachine I may skip those then. Looking to get into some books with Dragons though.

@ThinkDonald I have read The Final Empire and The Well of Ascension both fantastic novels. I have the final book in the trilogy lined up to read soon (The Hero of Ages) I'm assuming you're a gamer? Being on this site. So you may really enjoy the magic system in these novels.

@MightyDemon82 Wouldn't mind a good fantasy series with dragons myself, so if you (or anyone else, for that matter) come across any worth checking out, there's always room on my reading list (where Mistborn is already waiting patiently for its turn)

I just finished Sunbringer, good book. Maybe not quite as good as Godkiller, as it's slow to get going but the back half of the book was superb. I have to wait until next year for the final volume now.

Next up The Hero of Ages. Looking forward to finishing up the first Mistborn trilogy and finding out how Sanderson wraps this story up!

I just received an invite to the Broken Binding subscription so that's exciting ☺️.