Reviews
Books I've read or listened to myself, mostly fantasy and romantasy.
Romantasy
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- Feyre Archeron is 19, and she keeps her poor family alive by hunting in the forest near the wall that separates the human lands from Prythian, the realm of the faeries.
- Crescent City
- Bryce Quinlan is half fae and half human, and she lives in the city of Lunathion, where angels, fae, shifters and humans live side by side under a strict hierarchy.
- Dire Bound
- Meryn Cooper's sister has been taken across the border, and Meryn wants her back.
- Fourth Wing
- Violet Sorrengail has spent her whole life preparing to become a scribe and live among books.
- From Blood and Ash
- Poppy is one of the gods' chosen, the Maiden.
- Heir of Illusion
- Ivy Pomeroy is an assassin who can create illusions.
- Metal Slinger
- Brynn is a young guard among the Alaha, a people exiled by the Kenta long ago.
- Powerless
- In the kingdom of Ilya, a plague once gave some people powers.
- Quicksilver
- Saeris Fane is 24 and survives in the parched city of Zilvaren by staying invisible.
- Shield of Sparrows
- Princess Odessa of Calandra has always felt powerless in a life full of ceremonies and duties.
- Silver Elite
- Wren Darlington is a Mod, one of the people with psychic abilities whom the state hunts down.
- The Knight and the Moth
- Sybil Delling is a foundling who has spent nine years as a Diviner in the cathedral at Traum.
- The Wolf King
- Princess Aurora is to marry a man she did not choose.
Fantasy
- Alchemised
- The war is lost.
- Assassin's Apprentice
- Fitz is six years old when he is left at the castle of Buckkeep as the illegitimate son of Prince Chivalry.
- Eragon
- Eragon is a poor farm boy in Alagaësia.
- Game of Thrones
- In Westeros, summers and winters can last for years, and a long winter is coming.
- Gild
- Auren lives in a golden cage in a castle in the mountains of Orea.
- Harry Potter
- Harry Potter grows up in a cupboard under the stairs at the Dursleys' house on Privet Drive, where nobody will talk about his parents.
- Narnia
- Four siblings are sent to the countryside during the war to stay with an old professor.
- Northern Lights
- Lyra Belacqua grows up among scholars at Jordan College, in an Oxford that looks like ours but isn't.
- One Dark Window
- Elspeth Spindle has a secret.
- Phantasma
- Ophelia's sister has disappeared, and to get her back Ophelia enters Phantasma, a deadly competition held in a haunted mansion.
- Ranger's Apprentice
- Will is an orphan growing up at Castle Redmont.
- Ravnenes hvisken
- Anne is seventeen and lives in a small town in North Jutland.
- Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
- Ronia is born on a night of thunder, when lightning splits Matt's Fort in two.
- The Brothers Lionheart
- Karl is ill, and he knows he is going to die.
- The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
- In The Hobbit, the peaceful hobbit Bilbo Baggins is dragged out of his hole by the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves who want to take back their treasure from the dragon Smaug.
- The Name of the Wind
- In a quiet inn in a small village, a red-haired innkeeper who calls himself Kote is working behind the bar.
- The Shamer's Daughter
- Dina is the Shamer's daughter.
- The Witcher
- Geralt of Rivia is a witcher, a monster hunter who was trained as a child and changed with herbs and mutations, so he is faster and stronger than humans.
- Throne of Glass
- Celaena Sardothien is 18 and considered the most dangerous assassin in the kingdom of Adarlan.
- Wildwitch
- Clara is 12 and lives in Copenhagen.
Other books
- Arn
- Arn Magnusson grows up in 12th-century Sweden, partly on a large farm and partly with Cistercian monks, who teach him to read, to fight and to believe.
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Around 30,000 years ago, five-year-old Ayla loses her family in an earthquake.
- The Hunger Games
- In the nation of Panem, the Capitol rules over twelve poor districts.
- The Pillars of the Earth
- In twelfth-century England, in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, everything turns on the building of a cathedral.