By now you have probably made it all the way through the incredible Hunger Games trilogy and might even be looking for similar books to read. There was a lot that went down in this series of books. There were tremendous surprises, emotional anguish, more emotional anguish, more surprises, and death, lots and lots of
Dystopia literally means "bad place" in Greek and is often situated in the context of a totalitarian future where the government has successfully utilized messaging and surveillance to control its citizens. Even more often, these places are in a post-apocalyptic future in the United States or London after a nuclear war or climate catastrophe
Are you looking for books like Red Rising or the Hunger Games? If you enjoyed Darrow's or Katniss Everdeen’s personal struggle narrated in a visceral, unforgiving style then you are going to absolutely love all of these young adult dystopian novels. All are brimful with zippy plots that set wry, complex individuals (and their doughty
Do you remember where you were the first time you opened the first book of the Kingkiller Chronicles? Do you remember the long nights where you couldn’t stop touching the pages, and the words couldn’t stop touching you? Did you lose your breath as you finished reading the first page? I know, you passed out
“Greetings, Akar Kessell. I am Drizzt Do’Urden, ranger of Gwaeron Windstrom, guardian of Icewind Dale. I have come to kill you.” image credit: http://helmuttt.deviantart.com/art/Drow-213021149 Drizzt Do'Urden of Icewind Dale As an insane mage, a blood thirsty goblin, or an ice giant just looking for something to stomp into the cold, hard tundra of
Are you looking for the best dark fantasy books? Are you looking for amoral protagonists, anti-heroes, and complexly drawn characters stumbling their way through a world of muted greys (and corpses)? Are you a dark lord who has plenty of minions and not enough heroes to kill? Or maybe you are dealing with a particularly
One of the things I love most about dark fantasy books is their cynical wisdom and fearless truth-telling. You know the kind of book I’m talking about. The kind the world doesn’t want you to read. The kind that smells of “mystery and dark doings, of skullduggery and revenge,” as Croaker might have said. These
Are you looking for the top 10 fantasy books? With fantasy writers constantly cranking out candidates for the best fantasy novels in the current Golden Age, as readers we are stuck with a plethora of choices and not enough time to read them all. To my mind, that leaves us with five options. Develop methods
For many people, especially those readers of dark fantasy books, meeting an anti-hero is something they take for granted. After watching us connive and concoct so many schemes, assassinations, and angry revenges, they might even believe they can match the success of our dark knavery. But what does it take to be an anti-hero? It’s
You used to love reading books like the Hobbit, or the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and the Dark Elf trilogy, but then you grew up and lost touch with the fantasy genre. (That is what happened to me, anyways.) But there are now fantasy books for adults, because there were plenty of other
