I love red rising a lot, but I found the series incredibly difficult to follow at points, especially during golden son and dark age, there's just way too many names, way too many weird time jumps, too many technologies and too many locations, I had to hop on the wiki after nearly every chapter.

what series would you recommend for someone generally new to the genre (though i have read exception of harry potter and lotr)?

I need to check out Red Rising and Faithful and the fallen. To me, I don’t think think anything can be as good as Joe Abercrombie

Yeah hard disagree with Green bone saga 😁 But hard agree with Red Rising

how similar is this to empire of the vampire ? it looks cool and you def sold it to me to read but i don’t wanna read something that has minor differences and if EoV is better

Soooo much to read and catch up on.. I have this on my TBR. I'm currently catching up on Suneater... then plan to read Bloodsworn trilogy, Stormlight archive.. Red Rising series as I must next set of musts.. need to squeeze this series in there somewhere too.

No love for Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

i can’t wait to read empire of the damned the first book was so epic !

Just found your channel through this video. You gained a sub!

Storm light is something special

Why is this so quiet

Elantris gone lmao

Which one should I read first? I’m probably gonna start with mistborn or storm light

Hard agree about Stormlight, I also feel that it almost ruins reading at times for me as well. Love the tattoos.

"The gap between one and two is probably greater than the gap between two and ten" felt this in my soul.

I have been waiting to get into the Stormlight Archive but this review is going to make me pick it up asap. Also, dandelion dynasty for me is #1 all time for me, and I highly recommend picking it up!

I feel like Im the only one who thinks Name of the Wind was a hard miss🫣 rarely do I DNF a book but I was bored

Oh thank G-d, if you didn’t love my precious Red rising, we couldn’t be friends, but you came through, great list! Though to me it’s undisputed number 1

Red Rising suffers form all the YA pitfalls and the characters felt very cookie cutter to me with barely any interesting development. The rest of the list I think is pretty well explained though.

I would put gardens of the moon higher but I understand the dislike. I finished dead house gates no long ago and it was one of the best books I’ve ever read

You compliment Abercrombie for how he writes morally grey characters that are interesting, and then completely ignore how the jade city trilogy does the same thing? Hilo is one of the most interesting protagonists ever, heavily flawed, sometimes his actions are terrible and you as a reader are just shouting at the page for hime to stop, and thats why he's so awesome. weirdge

Ive hesitated on Stormlight Archive because as much as Mistborn was a fun read, I found it kind of blah in comparison to much of what else is out there. But I can't stop ignoring the fact that SA os #1 on almost everyone's Top 10🤔 Have you read any of Tad Williams' work? Memory Sorrow and Thorn has such beautiful prose and interesting chracters and his more recent series that returns to Osten Ard is said to be even better I have Shadow of the Gods next in queue after I finish Snow Crash and Im psyched to start that trilogy! Hoping Faithful and Fallen wont be a step down if starting with Bloodsworn...

We need a cosmere tattoo video!

Best sc fi book I've ever read. Phenomenal.

Frugal wizard is not cosmere, also you skipped Edgedancer and Dawnshard. Don't forget about the Elantris stand alone.

Read Lord of The mysteries. Most decorated modern fantasy probably the greatest.

Man it bothers me that the Frugal wizard is the lowest ranked yet imo, the most attractive looking book

wow, really? The greenbone saga? I haven't read it. I will be getting it next month with the Brokenbinding subscription but I'm hyped about it. BTW why didn't you put the Stormlight archive there?

So hyped to read this. Almost done with my current book and then I’m diving into Brandon Sanderson

Awesome video by the way. I added some of those books on TBR. Subscribed 💪🏼

Any tips on reading faster? I’m just getting into reading and almost done with my first book. I’d say i average 26 pages an hour right now. I’d prefer to read most books over audible

Fully agree on green bone saga, so overrated

My top ten are as follows : The Riddle Master of Hed ( Patrica A Mckillip ) The Spell Singer ( Allen Dean Foster ) The Black Company + The Garret Files ( both by Glenn Cook ) The deed of Paksanarion ( Elizabeth Moon ) The first Shannara trilogy ( Terry Brooks ) Dante Valentine series ( Lillith St. Crow ) The Chronicles of Prydain ( Lloyd Alexander ) Lord of the Rings and the Mercy Thompson series ( Patricia Briggs )

Stormlight Archive (The Way of Kings in-particular) really hit me and sucked me back into reading. Kaladin is also my favorite character...Dalinar not far behind. Absolutely loved the series minus Shallan's arch midway through the 2nd book until the end of the 4th. Really liked her before that. Have just added The Faithful and the Fallen to my wish list based on your recommendation.

Just discovered your channel. Really love how you conduct yourself and your opinions 🙂 it also helps that you have similar favourites. And yes! Excited to see a fellow fitness/ fantasy nerd! Subscribed and looking forward to seeing future videos

Cant hear anything

I’ve read all but painted man!!

You might like The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, it's modern day fantasy, the Elminster books by Ed Greenwood, who invented the Forgotten Realms world that D&D uses. The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium, and The Tamuli series by David Eddings. The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch

I understand why you might not like Gardens of the moon but please continue with the series. For me this is the greatest fantasy series ever written even with all its flaws. The first book is widely considered the weakest one but from there it gets only better and book 3 is a favorite for many people (my favorite is book 5).

Would love to see you do a video going over your character inspired tattoos. Thinking about doing the same thing and would love some ideas.

The Nevernight Chronicle is an all time favorite series of mine, Glad you enjoyed it! Imo that ending was fantastic

Cool list, I like your chill vibe as well. Happy Reading!

Can't hear you on this one either. Not going to bother raising my volume.

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Liked the video. Only had one issue. I had to turn everything max volume to hear you.

Mistborn Era 1 and Era 2 doesn't really have to be lumped together, right? They don't have the same characters or storylines, right? Just 2 series that happen to be in the same Universe, but that's about where the similarities end. I've read Era 1....and have no interest in Era 2 because i've not heard great things from most people....but it also just doesn't interest me in general I don't think. For me for multiple "series" to be considered the same thing or same series, they need at least some of the same characters or relation(like parents of previous series characters) and the storylines are similar, trying to accomplish similar things or still battle similar bad guys or whatever. So for me...all the First Law books can be considered the same series....Faithful and the Fallen and Of Blood and Bone can be considered apart of the same series. "Cosmere" stuff is NOT all together as 1 series, it's all different stuff.... "Realm of the Elderlings" is NOT all the same thing, it's 3 separate series. Anyway, just a pet peeve of mine. : )

I have read more Sanderson than any other author by a pretty good stretch. I do not understand why people love stormlight as much as they do. I thought Way of Kings Prime and Dragonsteel Prime were both better books. I wish you would have stuck with either of those versions, especially dragonsteel.

You’re either very quick at reading or I’m very slow, or both

If you love Red Rising you will flip over Suneater by Rocchio. I like it every bit as much as Red Rising. But yes, it is most def is sci fi.

If you’re wanting to get into Brandon Sanderson and want to get your toes wet read The Emperor’s Soul, it’s a novella that tells such a beautiful story and you will want to read more of Sanderson after. Love the video, and will be subscribing.