Devin

Dad to 2 amazing little girls. I run bromantasy.com, a review site that tries to bridge the gap between traditional high fantasy readers and the rich world of romantasy.

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The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

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The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide)

Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

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BlackRose2400

Do you read books by indie authors?

I love supporting indie authors! I try to read a mix of books by popular authors and indie authors! If you do, who are your favorite indie authors? Melissa Pearl is one of my favorite indie authors!

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)

Claire

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I am enjoying this so much!!! I like the evolving dynamic and being completely unable to predict what challenging aspect will be thrown at Carl (and the other crawlers) next. I already know I'm going to be serving a very large plate of Upsetti Spaghetti when I complete this series because I won't want it to be over!

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The Land of the Undying Lord (The Infinite World, #1)

J.T. Wright

Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B085DJJZPK. The Infinite World, ever-changing and ever growing. New nations and races rose and fell almost daily. New Classes were discovered, as old ways were lost. Monsters and beasts roamed the earth and were slain by soldiers and adventurers who were in turn killed by stronger threats. Heroes and villains created new epics and were forgotten when their successors appeared. This was the way of the Infinite World. Summoned into this chaotic place, a young boy with no name and no past must learn to survive. Bound to a master who doesn't care whether he lives or dies, he must become stronger. The question is how? Do the people around him value him for who he is or merely for what he represents? The world holds endless possibilities, only time will tell what the future holds for the boy. P.S. It should also be known that my 70 year old, retired elementary school librarian mother, thought there was an excessive amount of strong language in this book. Reader beware! However I was not ashamed to let my mother read this book.

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He keeps talking about his varicose ulcer like it's the latest fashion accessory. Please, no more 😭

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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

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jay80tee

Jun 11, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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The lack of world building has finally gotten to me now that they’re all talking about their home wards - clearly there’s been some sort of climate disaster but what happened? What kind of dystopia are we in? How did we end up with mods and primes and this war between them? Part of the impact of dystopian novels is the wisdom the author is trying to impart: x thing that’s happening in our world could lead to y insane consequence. We’re totally missing that here so far

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notbillnye

Jun 11, 2025

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0

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An exploration of "we come from two different worlds", The Floating World combines YA fantasy with Korean mythology, and the value of family and duty at the cost of our identity. Though the pace and plot points felt forced in impactful parts of the story, Axie Oh's prose is eloquent, emotional, and rich with intensity that the driving force of the story is the characters. Sadly, parts felt flat or less developed, so I was left with wanting more instead of feeling content with storytelling choices. Personal note: my enjoyment rating is influenced by the audiobook/narrator.

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The Vanished Birds

Simon Jimenez

A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time. "This is when your life begins." Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her; all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in each other the things they lack. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside of herself. For both of them, a family. But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.

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seema

Re-rating your rereads?

Are y'all updating your ratings and/or reviews after doing a reread? Why or why not? Also: I swear there was already a discussion on here about this so I'm sorry to be redundant, but try as I might I just can't find it ☹️ if y'all have a link I'd love to look at the answers there too!

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The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

Rachel Gillig

From BookTok sensation and NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig, comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess who is forced beyond the safety of her cloister on an impossible quest to defeat the gods with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight. Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

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