A New Favorite Book & A Legendary Sci-fi! I had a Great Reading Month
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- I read some AMAZING books over the last month! #booktube #fantasybooks #fantasybookrecommendations #fantasybooktube #scifibooks #wrapup #greatbooks
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Love that you have such reliable favourite authors in Anthony Ryan, Andrew Rowe, and Will Wight! And you sold me on Sins of Kings!
Hope July treats you well 🤩
Runelords is literally the reason I found booktube. I read Runelords in college (around 2007) when I took a Science Fiction and Fantasy class, and I remember really liking it, though I don’t remember many details. I was trying to find what people were saying about it, clicked a couple things, and now I listen to booktube all the time and I’m a subscriber. Keep up the good work!
@@tordawg69 That is so cool! I can’t wait to continue the series :). Thanks for watching I appreciate it
You really sold me on that underrated Sins of Kings, especially with some Lister narration!
@@BooksWithBenghisKahn I hope you enjoy!
Awesome update, Andrew!
June was all about Shogun for me. Such an awesome listen. 😊
I’m doing Tai-Pan this month. I’m excited
Thank you so much for the review! As always, you are awesome, and I feel compelled to start Lord of a Shattered Land! Cheers!
Thank you for sending me you book! I really enjoyed it. If you do read Lord a shattered land feel free to send me your thoughts
Glad you came back to Servant. It's actually my favorite book of the trilogy 🙃
I was super happy I came back to it! Excited to finish out the trilogy this month
In June I read:
*Historical-Fantasy*
Children of Earth & Sky / Guy Gavriel Kay
- Carried over from May. Loved it.
A Brightness Long Ago / Guy Gavriel Kay
- My new favourite Kay I've read so far, and a new favourite book of all-time! Book of the Month!!!
All the Seas of the World / Guy Gavriel Kay
- Pretty good. Glad I read this loose trilogy in publication order. I understand the lukewarm reviews and I seem to have liked it more than most, though my favourite parts were the tie-ins to ABLA, CoE&S and Lions of Al-Rassan.
*Sci-Fi*
Vorkosigan Saga 1: Shards of Honor
- Definitely be continuing this series.
*Southern Gothic*
Child of God / Cormac McCarthy
- It was fine, but really creepy at times.
For now I NFNed Jonathan Maberry's Patient Zero and Christopher Ruocchio's Howling Dark. They're good, just not what I'm looking for right now.
As for what I'm currently reading:
*Historical-Fantasy*
The Last Light of the Sun / Guy Gavriel Kay
- Kay's re-imagining of the Viking invasions of King Alfred's England, its really good so far.
*Sci-Fi*
Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell
- Still early days yet but I haven't a clue wtf is going on.
*Thriller*
Winter of Frankie Machine / Don Winslow
- Really good so far.
Thanks for reviewing once more!
And yes, the Martian is amazing. One of my favorite books and movies. So well done.
I actually disagree on Neverwhere, loved it and just how atmospheric it is. I prefer when Gaiman strips down his writing, keeps it tight, rather than longer works like American Gods myself.
Of course! I just bought the tv miniseries of neverwhere. I am gonna give that a go. For some reason I keep bouncing off the book. I still want to experience the story though
I'm glad your June was so solid! I took it easy leading into a July readathon so I can go nuts.
I always advocate for taking it easy and for going nuts
:) Hope you have a blast during the readathon
Empire of the Vampire has people in a headlock, holding them hostage. Hopefully you get through it and enjoy it!
@@ryanskeff I’m 85 percent in I think. It been a great read
For some reason I wanted to come here and ask you to read Runelords and I’m so so so stoked to see that you have read this already..
You are in luck! I’m excited to continue the series soon.
@@AndrewsWizardlyReads thank you. I’ve picked up Lords of the Shattered land after your review and man was that fun!! Please keep sharing more videos.. :)
@@SinghRohit007 FANTASTIC! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it
Great wrap-up! You read some good stuff, as usual😊. Hang in there with Empire of the Vampire, it is so worth it!!! And the spice is few and far between. I need to check out Michael Roberti, sounds awesome!
I just hit 50% on both Traitors we are and Empire of the Vampire! Both are great reads!
@@AndrewsWizardlyReads Nice! You are cooking man!
Great set of books!!! 😊
Thank you Safina!
a great month it looks like!
It really was!!!!
I enjoyed The Martian read by RC Bray!!!!
I’m starting out July with 2 great books.
Daniel Green was wrong! I loved Starter. Villain read by Wil Wheaton. It was hilarious. Scalzi writes some completely implausible quirky stories. This was one of them!
I’m listening to Convergence read by RC Bray. If you enjoy animal companions, there’s a talking dog. Also LOL fun!
I had the will Wheaton martian audio and he did a great job. I’m looking g to get into some RC Bray narrated stuff in the near future
I said you'd like empire, glad you are so far!
You were definitely right!
That's interesting about Mushroom Blues, I've heard good things! In general I am not a fan of mushrooms, but I'm willing to set aside my loathing of them as a "food" item to check the book out at some point. Could the world building have just been too info dumpy and it felt overwhelming?
Thanks for the comments on Small Town Problems! I love Alan Tudyk in pretty much anything, so I love the contrasting comparison. I appreciate how you liked Potter remembering his wife. There was one scene in particular that was tough to write, but it was one of my favorites. I had started a dialogue with the copyright holder of the song referenced (they ended up ghosting me) as I wanted to include more lyrics, but ultimately I think it turned out better having to work around the copyright issues.
Andrew Rowe does such a great job. The characters are great and everything feels earned. I can't wait for book 5 to come out. That's going to be an immediate read for me.
I added a few more to the TBR, but I think most were on there. The most anticipated is Janny Wurts, but I want to wrap up a couple series and try to get my TBR down before I binge her books.
The 1st finished book last month was Vermilion Flames and it was awesome (one of the best audiobook narrators ever IMHO).
I also got to Frankenstein, which was interesting. More than anything it made me wonder where the adaptations came from cause they're nothing like the book.
Top book though was Demon in White, loved everything about it.
I can’t wait for the follow up book to small town problems. I will definitely pick it up! It was nothing against mushroom blues. It just wasn’t my thing
Empire of the vampire is amazing I think you’ll like it a lot
So far I’m really enjoying it
Im sorry, mycelium beards???? Lol my hubby n I actually grow mushrooms and forage for them, I love mushroom horror, and I may have to pick that book up to see if I like mushroom fantasy 😂
I say do it!!!
At least it sounds like the books you like are really working for you. The Martian's just top tier entertainment, hard not to like that one. I think I spent this entire month reading two things, lol, Shogun and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, and I squeezed in Rakesfall in between. Not much reading done for me.
Shogun and memory sorrow and thorn are big ones!!!
THE MARTIAN YEEEESSSS
It’s was 🔥
Neverwhere was just Ok for me as well...I finished it and it was fine, but yeah, it was like a 6/10 for me.
I bought the 2006 mini series and I am resolved to watch that instead
I read 11 books
Favorite reads
Good luck with that by kristan Higgins
Worthy by jada pinkett Smith memoir
The maid by nita prose
The wall of Winnipeg and me by Mariana Zapata
That’s awesome Angela!
❤❤❤
@@MrRorosuri yessss!
The Empire Of The Damned am pretty sure you'll DNF for the scene sex. For me it was too much compare to the first one.
I’m 44% in and enjoying it so far. If anything I think there is to much swearing 😂
I get it, but we're all adults here! It's hard to see a modern vampire book without sex... I just look at it as... eh it's there. The rest of the book is just far too good to and over sex!
anyone tried that 'coffee and legends' book [is that right]? about a girl who opens a coffee shop in an dnd setting
Legends and latte! I have a special Edition on the way. It’s a great cozy read.
I see that Doctor Who there on the shelf ,have you read any D Who books ?
I read physically a Neil Gaiman short story a while ago. I do a lot of big finish and new and classic who
@@AndrewsWizardlyReads oh great , I read like 4 or 5 Who books , mostly novelizations of old episodes. My fav though is Only Human , I think Gareth Roberts is the writer . Great and fun book . It has Cap Jack 👌🏽
@@Themrjoliveira That’s awesome 🤩 oh I read a second doctor anniversary story. I liked it! I forgot about it 😂 Dreams of Empire
Dude Empire of the Vampire is do great. I get you on the sex scenes. I think there are only 2 fairly graphic sex scenes though, other than that I can't remember any.
@@logangoodner9559 I think I just read the last one. I’m on book 6 of Empire of the Vampire so almost done