Welcome to the Fantasy section of T.L. Branson. This is where I keep everything fantasy-related in one place—series reading orders, standalone reading guides, reviews, summaries, and curated lists—so you can either dive deep into one world or browse for your next obsession.
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The Skaar Invasion is the second book in the Fall of Shannara series by Terry Brooks.
If you haven’t read Book 1, The Black Elfstone, I’d recommend you check out my review of that first.
I absolutely love the covers for all of the books in this series. It’s what initially drew my attention to The Fall of …
The Black Elfstone is the first book in the Fall of Shannara series by Terry Brooks.
A brief disclaimer up front, this is the first book by Terry Brooks that I have read. I snagged an ARC copy of The Stiehl Assassin to review and so I’m going back and reading the previous books in the series first.
From …
Disclaimer: If you have not yet read City of Brass, do not read this review. There will be no spoilers for Kingdom of Copper in my review, but by the very nature of the book, even talking about it will spoil some things in Book 1, so please, go read my review of City of Brass first.
Everyone else? …
The City of Brass is the debut novel for author S.A. Chakraborty and the first book in the Daevabad Trilogy. The second book, Kingdom of Copper, launches tomorrow, January 22nd, 2019.
I didn’t know what to think of this book going in. I’m not one for “real world” type books, but I was very pleasantly surprised that we …
Prism Cloud is Book 4 in Jeff Wheeler‘s Harbinger series. It is set to release on March 5th, 2019. I received an advanced review copy courtesy of the publisher through NetGalley.
Fans of Wheeler’s are sure to be thrilled in this next installment of his latest series. The intensity ratchets up and prepares for the final book in the …
Dark Shores is Book 1 in a new series by Danielle L Jensen, author of the Malediction Trilogy, and is set to release on May 7th, 2019. I received an advanced review copy courtesy of the publisher through NetGalley.
Though this is a new series for followers of Jensen’s works, Dark Shores was actually the first book that …
Magic, murder, and romance. That’s the tagline set by the publisher for Book 2 of Jennifer Estep’s Crown of Shards series, Protect the Prince, and it is spot on.
I previously reviewed Book 1, Kill the Queen, on my blog. If you haven’t first read Book 1, stop now and read that review instead. Neither of my reviews …
Kill the Queen is Book 1 in Jennifer Estep‘s newest series, Crown of Shards. It also happens to be Estep’s debut into the world of mainstream epic fantasy, having typically written in the young adult urban fantasy and paranormal romance genres.
At face value, Kill the Queen doesn’t read like Sanderson, GRRM, or even Terry Brooks. Despite the …
I’m very pleased to review Pursuit of Shadows, Book 2 of the Keeper Chronicles, by J.A. Andrews.
Earlier this year, I discovered Ms. Andrews’s work through her debut novel, A Threat of Shadows. At the time, I was reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson and struggling to get into it.
Don’t get me wrong Sanderson fans, Mistborn is creative and …
You’ve read all of the books in the Mistborn series. You’ve spent days in the Stormlight Archive. Heck, you might have just finished all the books in Cosmere, and now you’re begging for more. But inevitably you’ll never forget your first and so now you’re back looking for more books like Mistborn to fill that empty hole in …