The Dandelion Dynasty: The Wall of Storms (spoiler free review)

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  • Опубликовано: 26 апр 2023
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  • @libraryofaviking
    @libraryofaviking Год назад +16

    I literally finished this book yesterday. Arguably best book I've read this year. A masterpiece!

    • @MattsFantasyBookReviews
      @MattsFantasyBookReviews  Год назад +3

      That's awesome, I finished yesterday as well! Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it. Are you going to post a review?

  • @groofay
    @groofay Год назад +4

    God, I need to read Dandelion Dynasty. I recently read The Paper Menagerie collection, and it's easily the best short story collection I've ever read. Ken Liu is an incredible author.

  • @MaedBetweenthePages
    @MaedBetweenthePages 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wall of Storms is probably the best sequel I’ve ever read…
    It brings me so much joy to see you loving this series! It’s definitely one of my all time favorites :)

    • @MattsFantasyBookReviews
      @MattsFantasyBookReviews  11 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, I don't know that I can disagree with you. It really is the perfect sequel!

  • @victariondrownedmemory9886
    @victariondrownedmemory9886 Год назад +2

    LOVE THE FRESH SAN FRAN HOODIE DUDE! not only r u my fav booktuber, but your a san fran fan thats awesome!

    • @MattsFantasyBookReviews
      @MattsFantasyBookReviews  Год назад

      Thanks! I actually am wearing 49er and Giants gear in a lot of my videos, I'm just so zoomed in that nobody notices!

  • @the_eerie_faerie_tales
    @the_eerie_faerie_tales Год назад +1

    This Series has recently been added to my Master TBR and it's quickly moving further and further up the list. I have a feeling I'm going to be hitting "purchase now" in my cart very soon!

  • @joronah8650
    @joronah8650 6 месяцев назад

    I love Grace of Kings but In many ways I think the entire story officially picked up in the second book which makes the first one feel like a standalone prequel of sorts. I mean you can totally read it and be done with it and that's totally fine. You could even count it as a prologue if you will.

  • @MacScarfield
    @MacScarfield Год назад

    Currently reading “The Veiled Throne”: Told you the Lyucu would make the Dothraki look like half-decent babysitters!

  • @jordendarrett1725
    @jordendarrett1725 Год назад

    Oh man, I love seeing those 5 golden stars in the thumbnail. I wish I could watch this video but I haven’t read the first 😅

  • @IbbyMelbourne
    @IbbyMelbourne Год назад +5

    I've heard the 3rd book dips because Ken Liu originally wanted it to be a trilogy, but ended up having to cut the last book in half since it was too big. Personally, I'm cool with that, it's not something I'd hold against it.

    • @MattsFantasyBookReviews
      @MattsFantasyBookReviews  Год назад +2

      Yeah that happens sometimes. Steven Erikson had to do the same thing with Malazan: Book of the Fallen.

  • @Shaad2321
    @Shaad2321 Год назад +3

    Easily my favorite book the series! I’m always happy to see you loving the series this was my favorite book of last year! Wall of Storms is amazing! I’m looking forward to your review of the next books!

  • @jackiesivat807
    @jackiesivat807 Год назад +1

    I am not getting sucked in again, I can’t put empire of silence down😢. Nice review/video

  • @dylancanread
    @dylancanread Год назад

    After this great review, I think The Dandelion Dynasty is going to make an appearance in my next TBR video! Great stuff as always, Matt!

  • @kyle_j_c
    @kyle_j_c Год назад +3

    Nice, loving seeing the hype for this series as I plan to start it next month!

  • @thatsci-firogue
    @thatsci-firogue 7 месяцев назад

    Finished it last night and I'm blown away. SO GOOD!!!

  • @BooksWithBenghisKahn
    @BooksWithBenghisKahn Год назад

    This bodes so well for me -- can't wait to start the series later this year!

  • @safinan8008
    @safinan8008 Год назад +1

    Happy reading to you 📖

  • @dinocollins720
    @dinocollins720 Год назад

    I really need to pick this series up! Sounds incredible!

  • @podrissimo9814
    @podrissimo9814 Год назад

    I knew you were gonna love it. My favourite fantasy book of the year so far.

  • @holiday_jeeneewoo47
    @holiday_jeeneewoo47 11 месяцев назад

    I gave up sleep for this book!

  • @vwkflynn
    @vwkflynn Год назад

    I would compare complaints about book three's quality to the issues taken with the Matrix trilogy (when it came out). Since the second and third movies are meant to be seen as one. They were even released within six months of each other to try and help that. Ken Liu did the same thing, three and four of this series came out like six months apart. They really should be read as close together as possible.
    The work he does in the next two is truly monumental. His crafting of the language, mythology, technology and history is mind blowing. The shit he gets away with in the last book is like Iliad level weaving of myth and history.
    The exam scene in the opening of this book is maybe one of my favorite parts of any book I've ever read. There's so much thought put into the whole thing. It's the part I used to get people to read these books.
    This whole series reminds me of Tolkien and how he wanted make the Elvish language and wound up writing LOTR and all its history to make it make sense. Ken Liu says the final scene of the last book was his starting point, and he created this entire world and culture and everything else just to make it happen. I love it.

  • @seanhalpin87
    @seanhalpin87 Год назад +1

    I was a bit worried about this one for ypu because of how much you loved the first one and how different it is to grace of kings.
    The entire series is incredible, the next book has a 200 page cooking competition that made me cry, and book four has a ton of engineering thst usually would bore me to death, but not in speaking bones.
    The veiled throne and speaking bones are one big book, so try to read them as closely together as possible, because it was meant to be one novel, but you can't publish a 2000+ page book

    • @shinigami2502
      @shinigami2502 Год назад

      That cooking competition is the best interlude from all those cut-throat schemes

  • @caitlinl2750
    @caitlinl2750 Год назад +1

    My fave of the series😍

  • @Serious.5097
    @Serious.5097 Год назад

    Thanks a lot, your reviews pushed me to make Dandelion Dynasty a priority read. I love the Three Kingdom era of China, but don't know much about Han. Do these books have any similarities with the Song of Ice and Fire?

  • @chriscyborg2187
    @chriscyborg2187 11 месяцев назад

    I want read this series but don't know if the language in the book is suitable to a beginner or not?

  • @DanExploresBooks
    @DanExploresBooks Год назад

    Dang it. This series is burning a hole in the side of my head. I want to get to it so badly.

  • @MarcAmAlb
    @MarcAmAlb Год назад

    I’m two books into Malazan. Dandelion will be next.

  • @yeraycatalangaspar195
    @yeraycatalangaspar195 Год назад

    Will put it in the to read then, been reading some dreadful cultivation novels and some good wuxia books of late.

  • @andrewf7732
    @andrewf7732 Год назад +3

    The Dandelion Dynasty is my favorite fantasy series. All books are 5 out of 5. Book 2 has that element of surprise that is just so satisfying. Book 3's story isn't as tight of a narrative as book 2, but it's still amazing. I think people rate it lower is book 3 and 4 are supposed to be read as one book and book 3 has a very unconventional climax. It'll work for you or not. However, the writing, the characters, the worldbuilding is alwasy phenomenal. Book 2 and 4 are my favorites in the series, but the series as a whole is a magnum opus.

  • @Paromita_M
    @Paromita_M Год назад +1

    I love this format where you share your honest perspective right after finishing the book.
    The Dandelion Dynasty is a very good series imo. The final book was my favourite - very fitting, thematically apt ending imo. I think this is something for which I have high regard for Ken Liu - he ended the series so well.

  • @brianrogers4344
    @brianrogers4344 Год назад

    Sounds like there may be a lot of changes to your Top 100 list next year.

  • @ryanfaulkner5488
    @ryanfaulkner5488 Год назад +1

    I wish I could read as fast as you do lol. How do you work and also read absolute monster sized books like this?

    • @MattsFantasyBookReviews
      @MattsFantasyBookReviews  Год назад +1

      I read an hour when I wake up, an hour when I go to sleep, and then just here and there throughout the day. Basically I don't watch TV pretty much at all. I also listen to audiobooks while driving and doing mindless tasks like chores.

  • @juerfe
    @juerfe Год назад

    I gave the first one 3/5. Im going to read this one see if it improves for me.
    Personally after hearing so many good things about the first one it kinda disappointed me. I couldn't really connect or care much about any character and the story i didn't feel it was anything special

  • @samuelvimeschungchicheong9683
    @samuelvimeschungchicheong9683 Год назад

    Read the first book, dry and the world building just didn't make sense. Gave up after the 1st book...

  • @amy_harboredinpages8272
    @amy_harboredinpages8272 Год назад

    📖🥰📚

  • @samm8190
    @samm8190 Год назад +2

    Are these books too complex to go through with audio?

    • @MattsFantasyBookReviews
      @MattsFantasyBookReviews  Год назад +1

      Yeah, at least for me.

    • @szlonkobusjbusj3819
      @szlonkobusjbusj3819 Год назад

      Nope

    • @samm8190
      @samm8190 Год назад

      @@MattsFantasyBookReviews Good to know. I've been told Malazan definitely is, and Wheel of Time is pretty close to that for me ngl.

    • @vwkflynn
      @vwkflynn Год назад

      I didn't think so. There really are a lot of people to keep track of, but I picked up on it as it went on. If you also get a print copy, there are comprehensive character lists in the front you could reference.