ShadowDenizen's A-Z Challenge (2016)

[Shadowdenizen]

This seems like too much fun to pass up!
So I'll bow to peer pressure and toss my hat into the ring!


A- The Wrath and the Dawn/ Renee Ahdieh
B- The Scarlet Gospels/ Clive Barker
C
D- Revenge of the Witch/ Joseph Delaney
E
F- The Secret of Roan Inish/ Rosalie K. Fry
G- Valor/ John Gwynne
H- A Fairy-tale Ending/ Jack Heckel
I
J- City of Stairs/ Robert Jackson Bennett
K- The Vision, Vol 1: Little Worse Than A Man/Tom King
L
M- The Strange Library/ Haruki Murakami
N- The Vagrant/ Peter Newman
O
P- The Map of Chaos/ Félix J. Palma
Q
R- The Last Five Years/ Jason Robert Brown
S- The Last Mortal Bond/ Brian Staveley
T
U
V- In the Cities of Coin and Spice/ Catherynne M. Valente
W
X- Xena: Warrior Princess (Issue 1)
Y
Z

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

I've been desperately trying to finish one I'd started before doing another but thought I should be a good mod and join in!

[Shadowdenizen]

This is a great excuse to read some books that have been sitting on my "To-Read" shelf for ages! :)

[Shadowdenizen]

THough it's a libretto, and not strictly fantasy, I'm sneaking in "The Last Five Years", since I think more people need to be made aware of this spectcualr play (and the equally spectacular [if downbeat] film adaptation.)

[Shadowdenizen]

Finally getting to the "Divine Cities" books, which have been really highly recommended to me.

First book is "City of Stairs", apparently.

[George]

Just finished "the Hollowing" which was weak and frankly, boring. Now reading "Azaroth & Sefalin" which is so far surprisingly good.

[Rich]

Len wrote: "Just finished "the Hollowing" which was weak and frankly, boring."

Robert Holdstock's book? Interesting, when I read it, (right after it came out in 1994) I loved it.

[George]

Mythago Wood was a monster sized favourite which I read many moon ago, but I found myself wading through The Hollowing. Maybe, after such a time lapse, I was expecting more.

[Shadowdenizen]

Added in The Last Mortal Bond; I've been waiting for this one for some time!

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Looking good.

[Shadowdenizen]

Thanks!

I've been lucky in that the stuff I've read has fallen into place pretty easily on this list.

I'm sure when it comes to the "X", "Z", (etc.), I'll have to start hunting.

[Lundos]

Shadowdenizen wrote: "Added in The Last Mortal Bond; I've been waiting for this one for some time!"
How was it? Been waiting for that one too.

[Shadowdenizen]

Excellent, thus far!

This series has blown me away. (In many ways, it reminds me of David Anthony Durhams Acacia: The War with the Mein series (which I also quite enjoyed.)

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

I keep reading B authors.

[Shadowdenizen]

Nothing wrong with that! :)

I tend to read a lot of "R" and "S"" authors. Not sure why, it just works out that way!

That's why this is a really fun challenge!

[Lára]

Do those count, too? I mean if we read more authors with one letter? I tend to read A´s

And good job, Shadowdenizen! :)

[Shadowdenizen]

That might actually be a fun challenge, too!

[Angela]

Shadowdenizen wrote: "Added in The Last Mortal Bond; I've been waiting for this one for some time!"

I've just finished The Providence of Fire so looking forward to reading this one later in the year.

Regarding authors with letters. I seem to read a lot of M authors. Or in the case of this challenge read one book and then want to read the next before starting another fantasy series.

[Shadowdenizen]

Added The Vision, Vol 1: Little Worse Than A Man; funny that a comic is one of the higher ranked titles on my list thus far!

[Shadowdenizen]

Not sure why it took me so long to get to The Map of Chaos; I read and loved both The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky...

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

You're doing alright with this!

[Shadowdenizen]

I've been lucky 'til now.

But now I gotta start actively looking for authors whose names I'm missing! (But I guess that's part of the fun, right?)

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

It sure is.