Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell
The first book in the magical and action-filled Farsala trilogy.
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Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
Girls of Paper and Fire paints a picture of a fantastical realm with animal people built on a caste system, with those at the bottom, those at the middle, and those at the top. Although this book appears at first to be a story of someone from the lowest caste falling in love with royalty, it is more so a story of the poorest getting revenge and rising up against tyranny. The world building in this book is excellent and reminds me a bit of Narnia mixed with various Asian cultures and royal aesthetic.
Ascendance of a Bookworm by Miya Kazuki
Ascendance of a Bookworm is a light novel series by Japanese author Miya Kazuki.
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
In The Colour of Magic, part 1 of the Discworld Series, Terry Pratchett introduces readers to a flat earth-like planet held up
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
What do you do when your whole world changes? That is the question Vasya must answer in Katherine Arden’s gorgeous story of Russian history and mythology.
Vasilisa Petrovna has always been a strange girl. Everyone in her village says so; her face looks like a frog’s, she runs around in the woods like some sort of wild thing, and she has a habit of talking to the air. What the villagers don’t know is Vasya has the sight and can speak with the chyruthi – spirits of nature and the home. And the chyruthi are afraid.
Books To Read If You Enjoyed The Grishaverse
For those that are excited about the Shadow And Bone adaptation that is being brought to us by Netflix, we wanted to create a collection of books that you may enjoy if you enjoyed the Grishaverse series!
For curious minds who don’t know what The Grishaverse series consists of:
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Jane McKeene is a black young woman living in a post-Civil War world; a post-Civil War world that is being overrun by the undead. In Dread Nation‘s version of history the war ended because the dead rose up and started killing people and turning them and the Native and Negro Reeducation Act required that children like Jane be sent to special schools that educate them in the arts of proper society as well as in how to fight and kill the shamblers (zombies).
Roll for Initiative
Have you rolled a Nat 1 on an Investigation Check for some books related to your favorite D&D classes/sub-classes? Well look no further as we’ve casted Discern Location for you, and got these results!
Artificer
Masters of invention, artificers use ingenuity and magic to unlock extraordinary capabilities in objects