Sundeep Agarwal's Blog: Escapist reviews, page 14

Derkholm duology: whimsical fantasy at its best

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Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin duology is authored by Diana Wynne Jones. See also The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.

The Shadows of Dust: a riveting space fantasy epic

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The Shadows of Dust is a standalone novel authored by Alec Hutson, well known for The Raveling series. Here's the announcement post from the author on /r/Fantasy.

The Wolf and the She-Bear: fast paced dark fantasy thriller

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The Wolf and the She-Bear is an introductory novella for other books in this setting, authored by Morgan Stang:

She Topples GiantsShe Courts Darkness

Exodus of Gnomes: a delightful sequel

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Exodus of Gnomes is the 2nd book of the God Core trilogy. This comes under the progression fantasy category, specifically GameLit/LitRPG, but there are no stat sheets in this series.

Mini-reviews for 2020 r/Fantasy hard mode bingo

This is the first time I'm participating in r/Fantasy bingo despite being subscribed to this subreddit for about 5 years. The idea is to expand your reading by filling 5-25 squares. Each square has an easy mode and a hard mode with additional restrictions. Since I average more than one book a week, I felt I could easily do one Hard mode card and perhaps do a few more cards later. In the end, I struggled to finish a single HM card.

I also added another self-imposed rule that any author I've alrea...

Half a Soul: wholesome romance and fantastic banter

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Half a Soul is Olivia Atwater's debut novel.

This standalone book is part of the Regency Faerie Tales series.

10 favorite fictional books I read in 2020

I read 97 fictional novels in 2020, including re-reads. Most of them were fantasy, rest would fall under sci-fi and magical realism.

A few years back, I would finish a book no matter how difficult or boring it was. Not so anymore, I had at least three DNF this year ��� one was too dark for my tastes and the other two were too boring.

Picking favorites is a tough task and choosing the order of presentation even more so. I've gone with books I enjoyed the most and these are all great candidates f...

Mini reviews for 16 books

Here's mini reviews for books I read from June to Sep 2020.