Where are you in Fantasyland August 2025

I just finished Installment immortality, in which we learn more about Mary the ghost, what she is, and how she will be in the world now that the crossroads are gone. Travels all over the northern-ish parts of the US.

No one's mentioning the novella tucked in at the end, Mourner's waltz, which is about a very pregnant person who is deeply grieving and also managing a New York City apartment building that caters to cryptids.

Both satisfying enough, if that's your sort of thing.

I am on an adventure in the Witchlands with a Truthwitch.

I"ve just left London, seeing if the Royal Gambit would work out. Not sure where I'm off to next yet.

Now going to various times & places via Bury our bones in the midnight soil. I was told that there are vampires, but it hasn't yet been made explicit.

Left Chetwood school in Emily Tesh newest book - The Incandescent. Demons and boarding schools, and a grown-up romance between grown-up protagonists.
I would say that this is high on my list of boarding school stories, but thinking about it, that is actually not as long a list as I would have thought. Recommended.

>5 amberwitch: That book sounds interesting, but it seems that you have the wrong touchstone.

>6 vwinsloe: thanks for the catch - fixed it:)

>7 amberwitch: On my wishlist!

Just returned from the Territory, in an alternate-world North America where the United States only goes up to the Mississippi, the Southwest is still ruled by Spain, and what we would call the Louisiana Purchase is the Territory, a relatively wild zone where magic works and supernatural beings exist, and which is controlled by someone who apparently is the devil; in Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman. I generally avoid starting a series unless it's new or I can feel sure of accessing the later books, so it was with a sinking feeling that I found the last bit of the book had an increasing "to be continued" status. But I liked it, so I'll start keeping an eye out for the others.

>9 rshart3: I thought the last book in the series had a sort of unfinished feel to it, so it makes sense that another was planned. But on the other hand, the series felt as if lost its way a bit, so maybe the author has given up on it.

I'm not quite sure where I am as I've lost my memory, but it's Dreadful!

I'm alternating between traveling to several planets in a galaxy far far away in Darth Plagueis, and being out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in The Last One.

At long last, I'm in Ngbe Abum Obbaw with the Akata Witch.

I'm catching up with DI Adams for A Right Shambles in York.

My last few reads on vacation - I didn't read quite as much this time as I usually get through.

- Reread the first two Murderbot novellas, because the TV Series made me realize I hadn't really retained the plots of each of these much, so it's worth a re-read.

- Listened to the audiobook of On Stranger Tides. Highly recommend the audiobooks of this and The Anubis Gates - Bronson Pinchot does a GREAT job with a couple delightful books. (I know one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies has some (loose?) ties to this book. Does anyone know how substantive (or not) the linkage is? I haven't watched past the second of those movies.)

- I mentioned in the July thread, but I did read Point of Hearts

- Spent some time in England/Faerie with The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

- Currently about halfway through Blood of Tyrants with stops (so far) in Japan and China - though I'm not sure if we'll be staying in China or passing through some other country in the series' world tour of different dragon-cultures

Let's see: so far I've travelled to the isle of Cadence to explore A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross (2022); the empire to follow All the Wandering Light by Heather Fawcett (2018); and visited A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey (2023), under an alternative-reality London over a century ago.

>16 Niko: The main things the book shares with the film, are 1) the Blackbeard character and 2) The Fountain of Youth. Other'n that, not much else in common. Being a huge Powers fan, I much prefer the book, even though I don't think it is one of his stronger works.

I just left Ever Tenebrae ( from spark the flames ) alone and now I’m feeling like a lost puppy.

I’m looking for something similar to satisfy my craving but it’s very difficult…

Just hope the sequel will come out soon.

I'm back in the Broken Empire, re-reading Prince of Fools (the whole trilogy, actually) 10 years later

I'm with Tiuri in Dagonaut investigating The Secret of the Wild Woods.

Is alternate history fantasy? I recently emerged from Grantville, WV (and Thuringia, Germany) reading 1632 and I am about to plunge back in reading 1633

I think of Lloyd Alexander as a fantasy author because of his Prydain series. At bedtime I've been reading his series set in a fictional land called Westmark. There aren't really any fantastic elements, but it definitely has the flavor of YA fantasy.

I'm visiting Navola.

I'm back in Ankh Morpork by Jingo.

I've been slogging through The Veiled Throne. It has just enough character development and set piece scenes to keep me from DNF, but this is the weakest of the three Dandelion Dynasty books, IMHO. At this point I just want to find out what happens lol.

I'm reading 1633 and enjoying various locales, but most the Tower of London.

I'm not sure of the name of the empire, but I just spent a lovely weekend in the land of Warrior's Rise reading Xander's backstory.

I was just in the Soleri Empire, in Soleri. I wasn't very impressed. Johnston knows all the correct elements of epic fantasy, but it didn't ignite for me. The characters are cardboardy (esp. the "bad" ones), and the complex plot is often implausible -- I know much epic fantasy can be implausible in spots, but in this case I had considerable trouble with suspension of disbelief. Plus, I dislike it when the plot depends on the extreme stupidity of the characters. As the final nail in the coffin, the worldbuilding is sloppy.

I've just arrived at The Bridge Kingdom.

ETA: oops - this should have been in the September thread.

I've left Navola after an uneven visit, and am now in Sargassa where the Romans discovered and settled North America.