The relationship between Fitz and the Fool, the feelings they show each other is at the heart of so many of the books and we get to watch it develop from the start and that’s special.
What a list these ten make! Obviously love to see some John Gwynne there :). Robin Hobb is amazing, as is Joe Abercrombie. Just finished A Clash of Kings for the first time and absolutely adored it. Loving getting through ASOIAF :). Mort was really great, so I'm looking forward to reading Guards, Guards. Happy reading! Will
I want so badly to get to the point of reading fantasy that I can do a top 100, just got here and I love your channel (even though I don’t agree with you about The Poppy War)
The Faithful and the Fallen is such an amazing series that I don't hear enough people talk about (maybe outside of booktube). Of Blood and Bone is also really good, essentially anything by John Gwynne has my favor 😂
Thanks so much! I can't wait to film the final one, I love talking about those books. I have to be careful not to make the video 2 hours with how much I have to say about them!
Matt I think you need to reread Misborn Era 2! I am rereading it currently and I appreciate it so much more! I think going in with different expectations knowing its vastly different than era 1 changes the entire experience! It builds so much on era 1 and is a LOT deeper than I thought.
I don’t know if you’ve read “The Fifth Elephant”, but the best troll vs. dwarf bit is in that book 😂 If you haven’t, then a minor SPOILER warning: when Vimes brings sergeant Detritus. One of the dwarfs gets pissed off and warns Vimes that the trolls and the dwarfs are at war, to which Vimes replies: “The war has been going on for the past 400 years, so obviously no one is trying very hard.”
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Haha yeah I loved it! You totally called me out 😂. It moved up to the next read on my TBR after I finish up my current read. I just purchased A Time of Dread on audible right before making this comment haha
Have to admit, it kinda hurt that the Wheel of Time is down past half, on your list, but still good to know it's on there! Thanks for putting things like this out there. Keep it up!
I think Fool's Fate is a top 10 for me. Also, I think you've convinced me to read Discworld! I was going to start with Small Gods (may still do so), but will consider Guards, Guards too.
Currently reading valour in the faithful and the fallen series, after finishing malice I was hooked completely so I went and bought the next three books and the blood and bone books too as well as the shadow of gods, thoroughly recommend them to everyone.
The video has just started and I already gave it a thumb up. Even though I don't much agree with about 20% of your picks and places I admire your honesty and enthusiasm while talking about fantasy.
Nice to see the appreciation for A Feast for Crows. It gets too much negative sentiment just because it isn’t quite as good as the first three in the series. But those first three are basically perfect books. Compared to all other books, AFFC is still great.
I'm probably the only Discworld reader that fully advocates starting with The Color of Magic. I feel like Discworld is a bit of a chaotic place and I love the way chronological order jumps around the Disc, meeting characters then leaving them and meeting new ones and then going back. It adds depth. Also, The Color of Magic may not be the best book but it is the best starting point because in your first forray into the Discworld you're essentially a tourist so where better to start than Twoflower? It's perfect. Also, Rincewind and the Luggage are spectacular.
Yeah I agree that it's a good place to start as long as you just keep your expectations tempered and have trust that it eventually gets a LOT better. I don't suggest it because I think it will turn some people off that might have otherwise loved the series if they started elsewhere.
I think Abercrombie's whole goal was to make us feel like that entire first part was pointless and a waste of time. The man just obliterates classic fantasy tropes!
@@franciscoramirez3682 TBH i think it's overhyped. I thought it was fine, but I'm not the biggest fan of grimdark I think there are a lot of other better series out there, but I'm definitely in the minority in that opinion haha. Fun read but just so much great stuff out now days ha
Man, you echoed my sentiments of Before They Are Hanged. Travelogue storylines in epic fantasy are a hard sell for me and the ending of Before They Are Hanged annoyed me so much because I had to endure this travel journey plot for hundreds of pages with little and arguably no payoff. I did like the character moments and Glokta's chapters a lot. I'm in the middle of The Last Argument of Kings and it's working so much better for me. If it continues to be as enjoyable as it is, it'll easily be my favorite in the trilogy.
Hi Matt! Just found out your channel and I've been enjoying your videos a lot! Just as a suggestion, I think it'd be nice if you kept the book cover picture up for the whole review, or just next to your face when you're talking about it, I sometimes listen to your videos on the background and find myself going back to the beginning of the section just to find out what the book is.
Nice continuation with no surprises. I have one correction: while Assassin’s Apprentice is the first book to appear under the name Robin Hobb, she had already published nine novels, and one collaboration, under the name Megan Lindholm. It is mind boggling to me that these have not been reprinted.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews No, they are written under the name Megan Lindholm, which is closer to her legal name: Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden. Her works include The Reindeer People, Harpy’s Flight, The Wizard of the Pigeons. She adopted Robin Hobb when she started writing more traditional epic fantasy. Her collaboration is The Gypsy, written with Steven Brust.
Ok I swear we have all the same feelings about books. Mistborn book 1 EXACT same feelings. It took me like 4 months to read Mistborn and 3 months and 3 weeks of that was the first third of the book. Then it POPPED OFF. Omg. Mistborn got me in love with fantasy. I was strictly a horror reader until Mistborn 5 years ago.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews it is an all time favorite. I’m not in the clan that says The Well of Ascension is better than Hero of Ages but I really really love book 2, it wasn’t boring for me at all and I didn’t really feel middle book syndrome with that one but I did love Hero of Ages the best as the stakes just felt so so high the whole time and the reveals and twists were sooooo good.
Love it! You inspire me to read so many great books. I have to say that you've honestly become my favorite booktuber. I know you have a full list of books you're reading, and I know that I already recommended The Beginning After the End, but I have to recommend some more! I'm just itching to know what you think of some of my favorites. Since you love Asian inspired fantasy and progression fantasy so much, you have to read the Solo Leveling novels. There are only four published right now, but you can read the entire series online if you wanted to. It's one of the best progression fantasies I've ever read. Next I have to recommend Bastion by Phil Tucker. It's another phenomenal progression fantasy. Lastly, The Iron Prince by Bryce O'Connor. It's a sci-fi/progression fantasy and although I've never been into sci-fi, it's so good. Bastion and The Iron Prince are both the first books in trilogies. The second books in both series are set to release at the end of this year. Again, I know you're busy, but if you get time to check any of them out, I'd love to know what you think. Looking forward to your next video!
Thank you so much, you are so kind! Both Bastian and Iron Prince are on my definite TBR for 2023, and based on your recommendation I'll bump them up into earlier in the year!
I actually bought my copies of the Green Bone Saga earlier this week, they're arriving in the next couple days, so the "Thank you Matt" comment will probably be coming soon!
When I read A feast for Crows I find myself really enyojing Cercei's POV's awell! The struggle for me was Brienne's POVs, not because I don't like her character but because many of her chapters are about her looking for Sansa and following leads as to where she might be. Thats not a bad premise at all. However, you know where sansa is the whole time, which makes reading full chapters about Brienne going to places where you know Sansa isnt there feel a little pointless. I also really missed Jon's POVs. But, in AFFC's defence, after the master piece that was A Storm of Swords there is nowhere to go but down.
For me, ADWD had higher highs and lower lows then AFFC. I found myself really liking Victarion's POV and I'm really intrigued to find out more about Euron. There's this whole sense of evil mysterious badassery surrounding him. New characters like Jon Connington and Aegon where great aswell! However, the whole situation and most characters in Mereen just doesn't do it for me, which is a huge chunk of the book.
Totally agree with you on Before They Are Hanged ending being a huge disappointment and feeling like a waste of time. To be honest the saving grace of this book is the whole Glotka in Dagoska storyline and the fact that it introduces one of my favourite First Law side character - Nicomo Cosca, famed soldeir of fortune!
Man you put Era one, the whole of the banished Lands saga, discworld, and greenbone saga in your bottom FIFTY? Unless you're putting more than one entry from series on here (I haven't watched the other ones so forgive my ignorance) makes me think we have WILDLY different tastes hahaha
Yeah what the person above said. I can tell you that I have some banished lands, discworld, and era 1 VERY VERY high up in my list. I don't have Greenbone though because I read 2 of them after I put this list together. But if I did the list over again books 2/3 would be VERY high up as well.
I've only read two of these so far but i think I plan to read most of these(currently like 10% through men at arms actually haha). First law is one of the first trilogies I read when I started reading fantasy again and it's so good. So damn quotable too. I quote the shit out of those books but unfortunately almost none of my friends have read it so no one ever gets the references :( I definitely wasn't disappointed in the plot development and ending of Before They Are Hanged. I loved all the different POVs and what was going on in them, the characters were great obviously but the plot on each of them was actually really strong and enjoyable. As far as the ending goes, I really liked it because I loved the journey the whole way and then ending was just such subverting of expectations and honestly it made me laugh at how absurd it was. It was a good twist that completely destroyed how I thought the story was going and I think it really setup the tone and plot of the third book very well. The first mistborn book might actually be my favorite out of that series, the ending of the third book is nearly perfect but the first book for me was just really good all the way through and was good introduction to the series.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Currently reading a LitRPG series called the Primal Hunter, I wanted to read a book where the main character is an Archer and saw it recommended on r/fantasy. It's pretty good, though I think the characters are decent enough but not great but the plot and progression is well done. Just finished the 2nd book and going to just read up all the way to what is released on kindle.
Speaking of stormlight archive and mistborn, unrelated to the video somewhat, do you think it's important to read mistborn (or any other cosmere works) before Rhythm of War? The only other cosmere book I've read is Warbreaker (read it before Oathbringer). I'm about 25% into RoW and I'm enjoying it, I don't feel like stopping and reading any other series just to continue on a story I wanted to read originally. What do you think?
Wish I had read Stormlight first. The Final Empire was such a slog, so predictable so boring, wasn’t aware of a single twist that wasn’t obvious, I have the whole series but it was so bad I can’t bring myself to read book 2, I tried starting book 2 and just lost all interest. Honestly what were the twists in book 1 that no one saw coming ? I get the impression it rates so high as it is often the first fantasy many booktubers read, or the second after doing Wheel of Time, so it gets a high rating as they just haven’t read much, and then have nostalgia for it because it was part of their fantasy intro I know I have huge nostalgia for my old early fantasy books, but I started with the I best go try Stormlight, cause Mistborn put me to sleep 💤 I was starting to reread The Name of the Wind at same time which was not good as the comparison of the prose and story telling skills was so huge, made Mistborn seems so simple. I have seen several older book tubers have the same issue with it. Worse is that many who love Mistborn say book 2 is worse 😞 But apart from Final Empire I am loving your list, and look forward to future episodes in a few years when you have expanded your library
Guah, having Malice even in your top 100 would have been bad, but putting that bad a book this high? Sorry, our tastes do differ too much for me to take anything out of your top 100. Nevertheless, I do commend you for your effort - kudos!
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews It is not only that, as I have watched other videos by you. Your taste in books is simply different, e.g. you find Malice to be good and better than Tawny Man, and I cannot simply fathom that. Your taste goes in the direction of super heroes with BS, mine doesn't. You hated Broken Earth and Goblin Emperor, I didn't. Summa summarum, I unfortunately have nothing to gain from your top 100. Malice was just the straw that broke the camel's back...
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews In the fantasy genre, I would probably go for books by Robin Hobb, Guy Gavriel Kay, Daniel Abraham, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joe Abercrombie: Tawny Man, Age of Ash, A Brightness Long Ago, Earthsea, and Age of Madness. Please, do not ask me to give a top 10 of my favourites of all genres - that would be an almost impossible task 😀
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The relationship between Fitz and the Fool, the feelings they show each other is at the heart of so many of the books and we get to watch it develop from the start and that’s special.
Yup, 1000% agreed!
What a list these ten make! Obviously love to see some John Gwynne there :). Robin Hobb is amazing, as is Joe Abercrombie. Just finished A Clash of Kings for the first time and absolutely adored it. Loving getting through ASOIAF :). Mort was really great, so I'm looking forward to reading Guards, Guards.
Happy reading!
Will
Thanks so much Will! I suspect you are going to absolutely adore Guards Guards!
I want so badly to get to the point of reading fantasy that I can do a top 100, just got here and I love your channel (even though I don’t agree with you about The Poppy War)
Keep on reading and you'll get there in no time! :)
The Faithful and the Fallen is such an amazing series that I don't hear enough people talk about (maybe outside of booktube). Of Blood and Bone is also really good, essentially anything by John Gwynne has my favor 😂
Yup, 1000% agreed with everyone you've said!
I picked it up when I started on booktube as well. I bought book 1. so excited for it
Would love to see a full series review of the Faithful and Fallen as a whole or a "why you should read". Great content btw!
Good idea!
Really enjoying this series, Matt! Look forward to the new installment each week.
Thanks so much Adam - it's been a lot of fun creating the series!
I’m so intrigued to see what the Top 10 will be - loving this series Matt!
Thanks so much! I can't wait to film the final one, I love talking about those books. I have to be careful not to make the video 2 hours with how much I have to say about them!
I think we all know number 1
Matt I think you need to reread Misborn Era 2! I am rereading it currently and I appreciate it so much more! I think going in with different expectations knowing its vastly different than era 1 changes the entire experience! It builds so much on era 1 and is a LOT deeper than I thought.
Yeah I'll give it another shot some day!
I don’t know if you’ve read “The Fifth Elephant”, but the best troll vs. dwarf bit is in that book 😂 If you haven’t, then a minor SPOILER warning: when Vimes brings sergeant Detritus. One of the dwarfs gets pissed off and warns Vimes that the trolls and the dwarfs are at war, to which Vimes replies: “The war has been going on for the past 400 years, so obviously no one is trying very hard.”
Yeah Ive read it and completely agree that part was amazing!
Starting the video and I'm so excited!!! lol
LOL yeah you are referenced in this one!
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Haha yeah I loved it! You totally called me out 😂. It moved up to the next read on my TBR after I finish up my current read. I just purchased A Time of Dread on audible right before making this comment haha
Have to admit, it kinda hurt that the Wheel of Time is down past half, on your list, but still good to know it's on there! Thanks for putting things like this out there. Keep it up!
It's just one of the Wheel of Time books. There a still more to come!
I think Fool's Fate is a top 10 for me. Also, I think you've convinced me to read Discworld! I was going to start with Small Gods (may still do so), but will consider Guards, Guards too.
Small Gods is also a very good starting point - I absolutely love it!
Currently reading valour in the faithful and the fallen series, after finishing malice I was hooked completely so I went and bought the next three books and the blood and bone books too as well as the shadow of gods, thoroughly recommend them to everyone.
Oh yeah you are in for a WILD ride. Buckle up!
The video has just started and I already gave it a thumb up. Even though I don't much agree with about 20% of your picks and places I admire your honesty and enthusiasm while talking about fantasy.
Thank you so much - that's really nice of you!
Nice to see the appreciation for A Feast for Crows. It gets too much negative sentiment just because it isn’t quite as good as the first three in the series. But those first three are basically perfect books. Compared to all other books, AFFC is still great.
Yeah it suffers because people compare it to the others. But I think sometimes people need to try to appreciate what a book is on it's own.
I'm probably the only Discworld reader that fully advocates starting with The Color of Magic. I feel like Discworld is a bit of a chaotic place and I love the way chronological order jumps around the Disc, meeting characters then leaving them and meeting new ones and then going back. It adds depth. Also, The Color of Magic may not be the best book but it is the best starting point because in your first forray into the Discworld you're essentially a tourist so where better to start than Twoflower? It's perfect. Also, Rincewind and the Luggage are spectacular.
Yeah I agree that it's a good place to start as long as you just keep your expectations tempered and have trust that it eventually gets a LOT better. I don't suggest it because I think it will turn some people off that might have otherwise loved the series if they started elsewhere.
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Matt thank you. You were right!
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I think Abercrombie's whole goal was to make us feel like that entire first part was pointless and a waste of time. The man just obliterates classic fantasy tropes!
Yeah, agreed - it just was hard as a reader but I appreciate he was trying to subvert expectations!
I couldn’t finish the first one because of that. I guess I’ll have to give another try
@@franciscoramirez3682 TBH i think it's overhyped. I thought it was fine, but I'm not the biggest fan of grimdark I think there are a lot of other better series out there, but I'm definitely in the minority in that opinion haha. Fun read but just so much great stuff out now days ha
Totally agree about the Cercei chapters they were excellent.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
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Man, you echoed my sentiments of Before They Are Hanged. Travelogue storylines in epic fantasy are a hard sell for me and the ending of Before They Are Hanged annoyed me so much because I had to endure this travel journey plot for hundreds of pages with little and arguably no payoff. I did like the character moments and Glokta's chapters a lot. I'm in the middle of The Last Argument of Kings and it's working so much better for me. If it continues to be as enjoyable as it is, it'll easily be my favorite in the trilogy.
Yeah Last Argument of Kings is INCREDIBLE, I hope you love the rest of it too!
Hi Matt! Just found out your channel and I've been enjoying your videos a lot! Just as a suggestion, I think it'd be nice if you kept the book cover picture up for the whole review, or just next to your face when you're talking about it, I sometimes listen to your videos on the background and find myself going back to the beginning of the section just to find out what the book is.
Good suggestion! The problem though is I also show some artwork so I would need to figure out how to blend those two concepts.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Perhaps leaving the book cover when you're just talking to the camera and taking it our for the artwork? Not sure though :)
I think that the "slog" was meant to be the calm before the storm. And with a snap, the action picks up here (Knife of Dreams).
Yup, well said!
Nice continuation with no surprises. I have one correction: while Assassin’s Apprentice is the first book to appear under the name Robin Hobb, she had already published nine novels, and one collaboration, under the name Megan Lindholm. It is mind boggling to me that these have not been reprinted.
Was that the Soldier Son series or some other books?
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews No, they are written under the name Megan Lindholm, which is closer to her legal name: Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden. Her works include The Reindeer People, Harpy’s Flight, The Wizard of the Pigeons. She adopted Robin Hobb when she started writing more traditional epic fantasy. Her collaboration is The Gypsy, written with Steven Brust.
haha I cant pick up Jade and read it rn to thank you because I literally just purchased A Time of Dread on audible during the video 😂
LOLOL
Ok I swear we have all the same feelings about books. Mistborn book 1 EXACT same feelings. It took me like 4 months to read Mistborn and 3 months and 3 weeks of that was the first third of the book. Then it POPPED OFF. Omg. Mistborn got me in love with fantasy. I was strictly a horror reader until Mistborn 5 years ago.
That's awesome! What did you think of the rest of the series?
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews it is an all time favorite. I’m not in the clan that says The Well of Ascension is better than Hero of Ages but I really really love book 2, it wasn’t boring for me at all and I didn’t really feel middle book syndrome with that one but I did love Hero of Ages the best as the stakes just felt so so high the whole time and the reveals and twists were sooooo good.
@@wjamimah7772 Yeah totally agreed, so glad you loved them!
Love it! You inspire me to read so many great books. I have to say that you've honestly become my favorite booktuber. I know you have a full list of books you're reading, and I know that I already recommended The Beginning After the End, but I have to recommend some more! I'm just itching to know what you think of some of my favorites. Since you love Asian inspired fantasy and progression fantasy so much, you have to read the Solo Leveling novels. There are only four published right now, but you can read the entire series online if you wanted to. It's one of the best progression fantasies I've ever read. Next I have to recommend Bastion by Phil Tucker. It's another phenomenal progression fantasy. Lastly, The Iron Prince by Bryce O'Connor. It's a sci-fi/progression fantasy and although I've never been into sci-fi, it's so good. Bastion and The Iron Prince are both the first books in trilogies. The second books in both series are set to release at the end of this year. Again, I know you're busy, but if you get time to check any of them out, I'd love to know what you think. Looking forward to your next video!
Thank you so much, you are so kind!
Both Bastian and Iron Prince are on my definite TBR for 2023, and based on your recommendation I'll bump them up into earlier in the year!
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Awesome! I can't wait
Top 10 best fantasy characters would be great
I actually bought my copies of the Green Bone Saga earlier this week, they're arriving in the next couple days, so the "Thank you Matt" comment will probably be coming soon!
YEAHHHHH!
Green bone saga is incredible! Enjoy
When I read A feast for Crows I find myself really enyojing Cercei's POV's awell! The struggle for me was Brienne's POVs, not because I don't like her character but because many of her chapters are about her looking for Sansa and following leads as to where she might be. Thats not a bad premise at all. However, you know where sansa is the whole time, which makes reading full chapters about Brienne going to places where you know Sansa isnt there feel a little pointless. I also really missed Jon's POVs. But, in AFFC's defence, after the master piece that was A Storm of Swords there is nowhere to go but down.
Extremely well stated. I'm with you 100%. What did you think with ADWD
For me, ADWD had higher highs and lower lows then AFFC. I found myself really liking Victarion's POV and I'm really intrigued to find out more about Euron. There's this whole sense of evil mysterious badassery surrounding him. New characters like Jon Connington and Aegon where great aswell! However, the whole situation and most characters in Mereen just doesn't do it for me, which is a huge chunk of the book.
Totally agree with you on Before They Are Hanged ending being a huge disappointment and feeling like a waste of time. To be honest the saving grace of this book is the whole Glotka in Dagoska storyline and the fact that it introduces one of my favourite First Law side character - Nicomo Cosca, famed soldeir of fortune!
Yup, perfectly said! Absolutely LOVE Cosca.
Yes yes yes! Stupendous list!
Thank you so much!
Man you put Era one, the whole of the banished Lands saga, discworld, and greenbone saga in your bottom FIFTY? Unless you're putting more than one entry from series on here (I haven't watched the other ones so forgive my ignorance) makes me think we have WILDLY different tastes hahaha
Yes, he is just listing individual books, so by the end every book of a series could be sprinkled throughout the entire list.
@@jeremygunkel good to know, thanks bud!
Yeah what the person above said.
I can tell you that I have some banished lands, discworld, and era 1 VERY VERY high up in my list.
I don't have Greenbone though because I read 2 of them after I put this list together. But if I did the list over again books 2/3 would be VERY high up as well.
Good to hear. Greenbone saga is a close contender for my all time favorite series
I've only read two of these so far but i think I plan to read most of these(currently like 10% through men at arms actually haha). First law is one of the first trilogies I read when I started reading fantasy again and it's so good. So damn quotable too. I quote the shit out of those books but unfortunately almost none of my friends have read it so no one ever gets the references :(
I definitely wasn't disappointed in the plot development and ending of Before They Are Hanged. I loved all the different POVs and what was going on in them, the characters were great obviously but the plot on each of them was actually really strong and enjoyable. As far as the ending goes, I really liked it because I loved the journey the whole way and then ending was just such subverting of expectations and honestly it made me laugh at how absurd it was. It was a good twist that completely destroyed how I thought the story was going and I think it really setup the tone and plot of the third book very well.
The first mistborn book might actually be my favorite out of that series, the ending of the third book is nearly perfect but the first book for me was just really good all the way through and was good introduction to the series.
Nice! What are you reading right now?
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Currently reading a LitRPG series called the Primal Hunter, I wanted to read a book where the main character is an Archer and saw it recommended on r/fantasy. It's pretty good, though I think the characters are decent enough but not great but the plot and progression is well done. Just finished the 2nd book and going to just read up all the way to what is released on kindle.
Speaking of stormlight archive and mistborn, unrelated to the video somewhat, do you think it's important to read mistborn (or any other cosmere works) before Rhythm of War?
The only other cosmere book I've read is Warbreaker (read it before Oathbringer).
I'm about 25% into RoW and I'm enjoying it, I don't feel like stopping and reading any other series just to continue on a story I wanted to read originally.
What do you think?
No, you can read Mistborn whenever you want. I would finish up RoW if I were in your shoes.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Great thanks for the reply!
Awesome. 😄
Thank you!
50 books higher than Ship of Magic and Fool’s Fate 🫠
LOL. There are still a lot of RotE books left to come on my list!
And if you read The Banned and the Banished quintet by James Clemens, you'll say "Thank you Blank n White Cookie" lol 😃
LOL
Wish I had read Stormlight first. The Final Empire was such a slog, so predictable so boring, wasn’t aware of a single twist that wasn’t obvious, I have the whole series but it was so bad I can’t bring myself to read book 2, I tried starting book 2 and just lost all interest. Honestly what were the twists in book 1 that no one saw coming ?
I get the impression it rates so high as it is often the first fantasy many booktubers read, or the second after doing Wheel of Time, so it gets a high rating as they just haven’t read much, and then have nostalgia for it because it was part of their fantasy intro
I know I have huge nostalgia for my old early fantasy books, but I started with the
I best go try Stormlight, cause Mistborn put me to sleep 💤
I was starting to reread The Name of the Wind at same time which was not good as the comparison of the prose and story telling skills was so huge, made Mistborn seems so simple.
I have seen several older book tubers have the same issue with it.
Worse is that many who love Mistborn say book 2 is worse 😞
But apart from Final Empire I am loving your list, and look forward to future episodes in a few years when you have expanded your library
Yeah Stormlight is an ENTIRELY different series and I suspect you will really like it. And yeah, Mistborn is very simple.
Guah, having Malice even in your top 100 would have been bad, but putting that bad a book this high? Sorry, our tastes do differ too much for me to take anything out of your top 100.
Nevertheless, I do commend you for your effort - kudos!
If you can't enjoy a top 100 list because one book differs, I'm not exactly sure what you went into this expecting lol
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews It is not only that, as I have watched other videos by you. Your taste in books is simply different, e.g. you find Malice to be good and better than Tawny Man, and I cannot simply fathom that. Your taste goes in the direction of super heroes with BS, mine doesn't. You hated Broken Earth and Goblin Emperor, I didn't. Summa summarum, I unfortunately have nothing to gain from your top 100. Malice was just the straw that broke the camel's back...
@@toinenosoite3173 what are some of your all time favorite books?
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews In the fantasy genre, I would probably go for books by Robin Hobb, Guy Gavriel Kay, Daniel Abraham, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joe Abercrombie: Tawny Man, Age of Ash, A Brightness Long Ago, Earthsea, and Age of Madness.
Please, do not ask me to give a top 10 of my favourites of all genres - that would be an almost impossible task 😀
@@toinenosoite3173 well if you keep watching you are going to see Hobb and Abercrombie EXTREMELY high on my list.