2025 halfway checkpoint

I’ve read a few from T. Kingfisher this year and they’ve all been awesome.

Also really enjoyed the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, and the Emily Wilde books remind me in a good way of the Lady Trent books which I loved.

I’ve also read a few romantasy books but they’re unfortunately forgettable. I think I’m kind of over the genre. I want my fantasy with a bit of romance, not the other way around.

I've very recently started using Bookwyrm to track this books I'm reading, I've missed this functionality since I quit Goodreads back when Amazon bought it. But I'm not quite sure what I read before I started tracking...

Here are my highlights of (probably) this past six months:

DCC, this inevitable ruin. Fantastic book, Jeff Hayes is awesome. Don't want to accidentally give spoilers since others are on previous books.

Temeraire, Empire of Ivory. Story about Will and his dragon companion Temeraire. The author is very good at building worlds where the characters have a different way of thinking than an average modern reader, and it's definitely the case here. Will is a dedicated army officer and a proper old-fashioned gentleman. This does often leads to to some limitations in his worldview, such as judging people on their manners. But he is also kind, moral and willing to be proven wrong. And in this book we finally get POV from Temeraire, who's loyal, smart and sometimes naive. It's hard to explain but I really enjoy these books.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies. It's a world where fairies and their world are real, strange, dangerous and fascinating. our protagonist is a leading scholar in dryadology, she goes around charming /saving/defeating fairies and humans with the power of academic research and bravery 😂

BookWyrm is great, seconding!
Temeraire is one I need to go back to at some point. I got about 3/4s through the first book but never finished, can't even remember why anymore.

I started strong but I've been a bit slow recently. Read the first Wandering Inn book and it took a while. Dunno if I'll keep going with that series, wasn't quite my thing, but I did enjoy parts of it.

My favourite book released this year up to now would be The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison, and my favourite that wasn't released this year is probably Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb or The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin.

Pretty typical one here, I'm in the middle of reading the Witcher series. Just started Lady of the Lake this week. Dunno why I took so long to read this series after so many years of knowing about it, I love it.

I loved the first two so much it pushed me all the way through the whole series but I look back now and wish I'd stopped at the short collections. Think I just needed to get to the ending, which I did enjoy tbf. Glad you're enjoying!

I've read 7 books so far, which is the highest for me in a long time.

I finished butchers masquerade last night and absolutely loved it. My favourite book in the dungeon crawler carl series (and favourite I've read this year). Really excited to start Bedlam bride.

I'm also listening to the audiobook for WoT knife of dreams. It's much better than the last couple books in the series so far.

Knife of Dreams is where it finally gets back to being good again after "the slog". Was such a relief to get to that book after the terrible Crossroads of Twilight on my first read.
- Crossroads of twilight took me so long to get through.
  
  Im halfway done knife of dreams and so far I'm enjoying it much much more.
Read the first DCC recently! Absolutely breezed through it, such a fun book. Definitely doing the next one soon.
- They all get better with one minor exception (book 3 is pretty good still, just not great or amazing like the others)