Where are you in fantasyland? October 2025

I'm in Ilion learning about the goddess in A Tribute of Fire

Now on board a ship to Vikland with the captive princess from Eirlandia, in Once and Future.

I'm in Balladaire and Qazal, with The faithless, after re-reading The unbroken.

I'm back in the Witchlands with Sightwitch.

I'm at Haxahaven Academy in The Witch Haven.

I'm back in the Napoleonic alt-history of "The Extraordinaries" with Beguiling Birthright.

In a complete coincidence, this is the third book I've picked up in the past few months where a main character is a woman disguising herself as a man to keep a position in the military or other reason. (And I also happened to read a Kindle sample of a fourth book with a main character doing the same.)

Just finished Red Waters Rising, the final book in Laura Anne Gilman's Devil's West trilogy. A good ending to a good series. Everything isn't tied up neatly -- like life. It's an interesting world setting too.

I've just left Elantra with the Heir of light. An absorbing visit.

Revisiting Skull Island and surrounding environs with Running Close to the Wind. It's making me laugh just as much the second time around.

>8 Sakerfalcon: good to know - I just ordered it, and hope to get it for the weekend.

I really enjoyed the newest installment in the Lychford series - Gnomes of Lychford. Now I get to eagerly await the next installment of the Green Man's series The Green Man's Holiday which is due out next week. A good month for urban fantasy!

I'm back to Ankh Morpork to learn The Truth.

Learning about pickpocketing in Lumet in Dragonfall

Just finished quite a surprisingly good delve into the evolution of a dwarvish mine community in The Crippled King. I'm not a fan of dwarf-related tropes, but this one had a great specificity to the world-building and some really strong character work.

Taking a bit of a quickie palette-cleanser with a Stargate tie-in novel while I wait for Chaz Brenchley's latest book to arrive later this week. He's a favorite of mine and it's been a while since he dipped his pen into fantasy, so I'm looking forward to it.

I am revisiting Elantra in Shards of glass, to refresh my memory before continuing with Heir of light.

Just back from the alternate England of His Dark Materials, much of it paddling about in La Belle Sauvage. It's a page-turner, for sure. I waited until the 3rd volume of the new set had been released, but made the mistake of starting the first volume on a weeklong trip, having left the second volume at home. After finishing the first in record time, I had to wait until getting home to continue. I'll start it tomorrow.

Working on a seasonal one by Justina Ireland, she of the Dread Nation series: Scream site, about a high school journalist investigating a video sharing site that might be connected to disappearances.

>16 rshart3: You did well. The second book simply ends as if the paper ran out, without proper plot logic, it made me really angry. I don't remember any details any more, so I'll wait for the paperback; also trying to find a proper detailed reminder of book 2 somewhere online...

I am in Queenswood (in a country called Dominion, seriously??) with The Everlasting. Kind of, I can't seem to get through more than a page or two at a time.

>18 ScarletBea: I made a rule years ago not to start a series until it was complete, or in the case of very long series, a number of volumes were out. I'd been burned too often with the stalled-series syndrome. George RR Martin is probably the most famous example (I finally gave up & read them), but another author I like, P. C. Hodgell, kept us waiting for many years for both vol.3 and vol.4 of her Kencyrath books. I've broken the rule a number of times, but I still watch for times I should wait.

>20 rshart3:, same. I bought the first paperback edition of The Name of the Wind when it came out. Still haven't read it.

November 2025.