Fantasy Book Club discussion

Hello, it's the first Saturday (well it was yesterday) and that means it's nomination time. Sorry I'm late but you were warned ;)

Place your book suggestions here, one nomination and one second per person. Do read through the rules first, please. Feel free to nominate books that have failed selection previously.

1. All nominations must be shelved on GR as fantasy primarily.

2. All nominations must be linked to their book page, or they'll be ignored.

3. All nominations must be seconded.

4. Check our group bookshelf as we won't be including books we've read since January 2014. Check here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5. No self-nominations.

You have a week to nominate, then I'll set up the poll.

Helen :)

I nominate Furies of Calderon. This was a group read back in 2012, but I just bought this a couple of weeks ago and it would be nice to read it together with the group.

I will nominate Age of Swords.

I'll second Age of Swords..

Seconding Furies of Calderon, and nominate second book in the series, namely Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher

I nominate The Alloy of Law

I'll second The Alloy of Law and nominate again The Silmarillion it came in a close second for the August BOTM

I'll second The Silmarillion and nominate The Misenchanted Sword.

I nominate Circle of Reign.

Second The Misenchanted Sword nominate NPCs

I second NPCs and nominate Stardust

I'll nominate Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil.

I second Academ's Fury

I nominate Lord of Light.

I second Stardust

I'll second Lord of Light and nominate The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams' new Osten Ard book. (It's the start of a new trilogy, and I don't think it relies on having read the original books.)

I second The Witchwood Crown

Second... Lord of Light.

I nominate Soleri, I won an advanced copy a couple months ago (came out in June) and I'd be interested to see what others think of it - I thought it was quite good.

I'll second Soleri

I'm going to nominate The Last Unicorn.

I second The Last Unicorn

Alice wrote: "I nominate Soleri, I won an advanced copy a couple months ago (came out in June) and I'd be interested to see what others think of it - I thought it was quite good."

This does look interesting, but the price is outrageous...$15 (US) for a Kindle version well under 400 pages?? Hope the library has a copy.

Monica wrote: "Alice wrote: "I nominate Soleri, I won an advanced copy a couple months ago (came out in June) and I'd be interested to see what others think of it - I thought it was quite good."

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Yikes - that is a bit steep for a virtual copy. well, none of my past nominations have made it close to winning so there's a good chance this one won't make it past voting, haha :).

Never hurts to try,
; )

Good for the heads up always, though. Might have a lot of surprised people not wanting to purchase in the end.

I nominate....................... drum roll .................

Blackdog by K.V. Johansen

: D

I'll second Blackdog, and nominate a title that has been in the running a few times before... Senlin Ascends

I'll be forever seconding Blackdog but Monica has already read my mind so Senlin Ascends it is. Loved it so much and I'm not even into steampunk or post-industrial fantasy at large.

Alice wrote: "I nominate Soleri, I won an advanced copy a couple months ago (came out in June) and I'd be interested to see what others think of it - I thought it was quite good."

This was released three weeks ago in the UK, it is £22 on Amazon and unavailable as a kindle.

Brenda ╰☆╮ wrote: "Second... Lord of Light."

Aaahhh! You double seconded!

I'll nominate, at this late stage, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn.

Helen wrote: "Alice wrote: "I nominate Soleri, I won an advanced copy a couple months ago (came out in June) and I'd be interested to see what others think of it - I thought it was quite good."

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Heheh, Maybe I'll start a "Don't vote Soleri" political campaign. Amazon US had copies going from $10 already so I thought ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but I should have done a bit more research. Can I revoke my nomination? Good luck and me don't get along, I'd hate for it to win and people have to spend too much money.

It's up to you, new releases are expensive here and kindle are expensive wherever that other post referred to- America?

People won't vote if they don't want the expense so I wouldn't worry on that account.

I'm leaving this open as it went up later but we do have loads of noms so it'll definitely be closing on Saturday evening Uk time.

Join BookBub .... you can set your preferences and once a day you get an email with your preference genres...... ebooks range from free to 2.99£$

Alice wrote: "Heheh, Maybe I'll start a "Don't vote Soleri" political campaign. Amazon US had copies going from $10 already so I thought ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but I should have done a bit more research. Can I revoke my nomination? Good luck and me don't get along, I'd hate for it to win and people have to spend.."

A few years back a large group of readers were disgruntled enough over ebook prices to maintain a boycott of "overpriced Kindle books" (anything over $10). Titles were tagged as such to alert would-be buyers...until Amazon caught on and banned the tagging.

Lol. I just won't pay more than I would for a paperback. Ideally, I expect it to be cheaper due to no physical product.

Helen wrote: "Lol. I just won't pay more than I would for a paperback. Ideally, I expect it to be cheaper due to no physical product." I agree completely - no printing cost, no distribution cost.

I'm going to make up the poll now,

NO MORE NOMINATIONS OR SECONDS WILL BE ACCEPTED

But I'll leave this open for now so you can discuss the poll :)

yay The Silmarillion is leading at the moment. I am surprised actually

Oh well, been there done that so to speak. Looks like no clear majority for anything. Good selections this time the vote is really spread out.

And we have a winner: The Silmarillion

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Oh well, been there done that so to speak. Looks like no clear majority for anything. Good selections this time the vote is really spread out."

Mike, maybe it's time to nominate one of your old favavorites. ; D

Go Mike! Next month is nearly here :)

Well, the 5th down was mine...sigh.