spotlight on: fantasy

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There is something that I've been wanting to bring to These Stardust Words for quite some time, and that is a spotlight series. every month, I want to take a different facet of the bookish lifestyle and highlight it. Be it genre, covers, shipping, writing styles, etc, every month there will be a different theme under our spotlight! 

For March, I want to spotlight a genre, and specifically fantasy. Usually I can manage one or two fantasy books a month before I feel myself slumping and have to go for a more contemporary feeling, but lately I have been tearing through some truly amazing fantasy, one after the other. 

Though I know fantasy is an acquired taste for some, I truly believe that there is a fantasy book or series out there for everyone. So in an attempt to lead those who are less fantastically-inclined in their reading choices to some magical worlds, I've included middle grade, young adult and adult selections. In the adult section, there are some picks for perhaps the more adventurous souls. 

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top ten hyped books I haven't read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish, where each week there is a themed list, and you must come up with ten books to put on that themed list.

This week, the theme is "February 3: Top Ten Books I Can't Believe I Haven't/Want To Read From X Genre (for example I feel like I'm pretty well read in contemporary YA but there are some STAPLES I can't believe I haven't read. Or if you just want to books you WANT to read in a particular genre..not necessarily long overdue." This is hard for me because, unless I really just don't read a particular genre, I usually try to get to at least ten or so books a year in a certain one. So I don't know if there are 10 YA fantasy books that I've been dying to read etc etc... however. I do know there are quite a few books that have gotten lots of hype, whether it be from goodreads, booktube, blogs, friends or cashiers at Barnes and Noble, that I have not yet gotten to. So here they are.

Caroline's Top Ten Very Hyped Books That She Hasn't Read And Is Ashamed

1. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series – George R.R. Martin (2-5, I barely made it through the first one) 

2. The Study Series – Maria V Snyder 

3. Landline – Rainbow Rowell

4. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon (as well as the rest of the series, I just hear more about book 1)

5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman 

6. The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan

7. The Kingkiller Chronicles – Patrick Rothfuss 

8. Unravel Me & Ignite Me – Tahereh Malfi (I read Shatter Me, years ago now though)

9. All Souls Trilogy – Deborah Harkness 

10. Red Rising Trilogy (Books 1 & 2 out now) – Pierce Brown

so there you have it! Ten books (and series) that I have heard endless good things about, but for some reason or another, just haven't picked up yet! let me know if you've read any of these!

xx

Sunny