Fantasy Book Club discussion

Welcome to our new challenge. The idea is that we each read a set of books that can be classified as a sub-genre of fantasy.

Rules
1. Each member sets up their own thread (mods can help) and lists their read books next to the sub-genre. Linking the book would be great as we can nosy at it and steal it for our own challenges.
2. There is no time limit, read as quickly or as slowly as you please.
3. The sub-genres can be completed in any order.
4. The book must spend most of its pages in the sun-genre to qualify eg if a dragon appears for five pages it doesn't count for dragon fantasy.

There are so many different sub-genres available and many that I've never heard of, however, we've started with 12 that are more common and hopefully not to difficult to complete.

Good luck.

Fairy Tale
Dark Fantasy
Magic Realism
Mythic Fiction
Paranormal Romance
Science Fantasy
Sword and Sorcery
Urban Fantasy
Young Adult
Epic Fantasy
Military Fantasy
Dragon Fantasy

This might helphttp://bestfantasybooks.com/fantasy-g...

Reserved

I'll be joining this challenge. Going to have to try some new sub-genres. I am particularly dreading paranormal romance. Are these established are genres on GR or will we just have to use our best judgment?

Some are, I went through a fantasy site and wiki and checked most common.

Some are certainly going to stretch me.

Cool. Thanks For setting them up Helen.

:) I've added a link to one of the web sites.

hmmm...I am always a sucker for a challenge......

I am in...details to coalesce slowly!

I'm in for this challenge. Setting up my thread now.

I'm joining! Life has been getting in the way of my reading, maybe this will get me back on track!

Maggie, that did make me laugh.

I'm joining too. I'll try to combine this challenge with the Hugos "challenge" : books I haven't read yet which I might nominate for the Hugos. Tough times.

Helen wrote: "Maggie, that did make me laugh."

I have it about half figured out!

No way! Between you and Brenda I feel like a slacker!

Better get busy!


;D

Reserved spot for myself here too!

Will do this one as well.

I like all these challenges! It also helps me get reading suggestions from other Fantasy enthusiasts! :)

We love positive feedback.

Ok so I am dreading paranormal romance but in all fairness I have never actually tried it. So can you all please recommend a highly regarded PR for me to try. Thanks.

I'm not a fan but i know others are. There is a genre link in my thread if you want to nosy.
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/para...

This is the GR list.

Ugh the covers. This is going to be tough. Thanks for the link Helen.

I hate people on covers, if you find a good one let me know.

Haha! Good luck to both of you! If I finish the A-Z challenge I might do this one, but paranormal romance will be a struggle.

The first half dozen or so Anita Blake books by Laurell K. Hamilton (starting with Guilty Pleasures) were actually pretty good -- more supernatural police procedural and less full-frontal vampire snogging. (That happened later.)

I haven't read them, but I've also heard good things about the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris (Dead Until Dark etc.).

Actually, I did enjoy the Sookie books. I also read the first Dark Lover book, by Ward. They get a lot of praise.

Thanks Joseph. Think I will do the Sookie Stackhouse book. I enjoyed the True Blood tv series.

I've read many of the Sookie Stackhouse books, and liked them. I've yet to finish the series. I kind of lost track of the last book I bought and don't want to buy it again.
:/

Some also like Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews, but I myself have not read it.

I´ll try this one, I feel like I´m too focused on just one genre, or lack of one in my case xd

I've done quite well, much better than I expected.

For those of you who need a book for the Military Fantasy sub-genre, I read a book last year called The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley that you might enjoy.

So, I'm going to do this challenge for 2018.

I might redo this too.

I'm going to complete this for 2018 as well.

I might be biting more than I can chew but... I'll join this one as well.

Wow, loving this.

A member has offered his e-book free of charge to help this challenge, it's a comic fantasy that he feels may cover fairy tale. If you're happy with the offer, can you comment and then he can let you know about it :)

I'm trying to maintain the no free ads out of self promotion hence the cagey phrasing ;)

Sounds good to me.

This challenge seems like so much fun! Can people still join mid year?

Yes, of course. You can join anytime!

Oh of course! Join in any challenge any time :)

I want to explore more fantasy books and this challenge is perfect!

Enjoy!