Fantasy Recs

I read every book from the Rangers Apprentice series and absolutely loved the series, characters, and the plot. I was wondering if you guys had recs for books similar to this series? Thanks guys!

Tamora Pierce has a lot of books that you might like. You could start with Alanna and go from there!

>2 reconditereader: Hey I left you a private message if you could take a look

I'm a big fan of Brandon Sanderson. You might try Elantris, as a stand-alone, or the Mistborn saga for a most excellent series. (The first three are a trilogy with one story arc. The remaining 4 books are set in the same world in a future time period, and are really a separate series.)

Elantris does sound very enticing. How is the reading difficulty and would you say that characters are developed well?

>5 SanjitP: The characters are very well developed, I would say. Reading difficulty is difficult to gauge, but I would say not extremely difficult, in terms of vocabulary and pacing. There is a lot going on, though, and all is not revealed right away, so the reader does need to keep a number of things straight as they read and puzzle it all out with the hero, so in that sense it could be called difficult.

Library Thing has a feature that allows you to search for things like that. It's called Talpa. I just searched for books similar to Rangers series and I got quite a few, including the Maze Runner series which is hugely popular. Here's a link to my search results (if it works).

https://www.talpasearch.com/search?query=books+similar+to+rangers+series

>6 tealadytoo: Great I will for sure take a read. Do you have any other personal favorites?

My fave ya fantasies are "our world but with magic in" rather than full medieval. So they might not be your thing. But when xmas comes, try The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper; it's incredibly Christmassy with carols + snow + micepies + tree + shopping for presents + although it's part 2 of 5 books, a standalone (and the best) Set in 1970s in Thames Valley in south of England, young boy finds out he has to locate magic items to fulfill a prophecy.

Also if you can bear sparky footnotes, Jonathan Stroud's Bartimeus books about a workshy demon enslaved by a horrid little boy in steampunk London. There's a plot and there's worldbuilding, but what will shine in your memory is Bartimeus' personality.

Have you tried Temeraire by Novik? It's in the Age of sail and the heroic English are at war with the rascally French, and their beautiful teaclipperesque vessels have an air wing to attack the enemy. The air wing consists of.. dragons. The series lost me 4 or 5 books in but the start is glorious. The dragon has the combined politeness and iron will of Paddington bear and his chosen officer is not a smouldering bad boy but a painfully respectable young man who doesn't wish to be seen as a weirdo, but that's how everyone sees dragon officers as being.

SNARKY not sparky. Sorry

> I just started the Licanius Trilogy by James Islington, and so far I am enjoying it quite a bit. (I finished Book 1, and have 2 and 3 on my tbr pile).

I'm also a fan of Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles, but I can't really recommend it because Rothfuss has severe writer's block and I am doubting that he will ever finish it. :=(

>9 nessreader: mice-pies? I think you may be missing an N - we don't normally have mice in our pies.

Garth Nix is also worth reading. Sabriel is the start of a series as is Mister Monday

>11 andyl: mouse pies are not at all christmassy. I must learn to scan these before hitting post. Sometimes I type like my fingers were bananas and sometimes spellcheck sabotages me.

Thanks for spotting that.

The Ranger's Apprentice is so good! Try The Last Apprentice series. Or The Witcher books if you don't mind switching from YA to adult.