25 ADULT FANTASY STANDALONES 📚

25 ADULT FANTASY STANDALONES 📚 Let's do some tier ranking, but in challenge mode

🍿 Videos where I go more in-depth for the books mentioned:
Goddess of the River
Elantris
The Bone Orchard
Starling House
House in the Cerulean Sea
The Honey Witch
*not yet discussed elsewhere at the time I’ve posted this video
Clean Air
Song of Achilles
Wild and Wicked Things
Ocean at the End of the Lane
Orquidea Divina
Uprooted
Best Served Cold
Addie LaRue
Sword of Kaigen
Spinning Silver
Nettle and Bone
Legends and Lattes
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Babel
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Untethered Sky
Ariadne
Deal with the Elf King

#fantasystandalones #adultfantasy #adultfantasystandalones

[almostbarbara]

Totally agree, Spinning Silver, top tier!!! The only Naomi Novik book I've liked.

[nna]

I love "the invisible life of Addie LaRue" too! It felt like a dark fairytale with lush writing and so much emotion.

[brittanyfrancis]

Definitely do this style video again, it was fun to watch and compare my thoughts!😁

[violetadaguiar]

Actually, the idea of finding comfort in books that are just fine, just cute, makes sooo much sense to me! I get very emotionally involved in the narratives, and although that is something I love in my favorites, I don't want to cry and ponder the meaning of life every week XD it's so nice to have books that are cool but not breathtaking, and easy to read

[OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels]

Great timing, I'm looking for some new standalones to read and I've only read 13 of these so far! Interesting picks. I'll have to look more into some of them.

[lalalaurenlibby]

I was waiting for Yumi to be in the top tier but I’m finally going to read Sword of Kaigen this fall!! Excited for the emotional roller coaster

[kohlibri]

Finished The Sword of Kaigen just last week and it's now right up there with my favorite books of all time, happy to see it here :)

[nimzipow]

I totally agreed with you on Goddess of the River! This is my first video of yours and I immediately subscribed, I really appreciate the way you express your thoughts and opinions 😊

[kyradagny-heath]

I've been reluctant to try Spinning Silver since I absolutely hated Uprooted! But hearing that you didn't like Uprooted but enjoyed Spinning Silver has convinced me to add to my TBR.

[tinyprettymoon]

Babel was so annoying to me I couldn’t finish it 😭 it was especially annoying how she would use American spellings for certain words and British spellings for others, but for some reason she alternated for the word practice and its different forms. It was so strange and it was so distracting. Petty reason to dnf, but that isn’t the only reason.

I read The Witch’s Heart though and I really didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. After I finished I was like wow that was a really good book but then I kept thinking about it. I can’t wait for The Weaver and the Witch Queen now.

And not adult, but I finished A Tempest of Tea last night and omg that book was so bad I felt like I had whiplash the entire time because hardly anything made sense. I expected the ending to be really bad and it actually wasn’t, but jeez, I can’t believe how much editing it went through only for it to be published in such a half written state like that.

[herbookmaterials]

That was a very fun video to watch, and I now have a couple more standalones on my radar that I'd like to read😄
Thank you :)

[mcedwards]

Hahahaha I actually really liked Ocean at the End of the Lane and you straight up said "No" and moved straight on 😂😭
I was also, though, one of those people who was very bored by Addie LaRue 🤷‍♀️

[ButOneThingIsNeedful]

Kind of like the order in which you did this reveal. Haven't seen that before and it felt less chaotic than so many tier rankings.

[RyeMiArt]

yeeees, The Sword of Kaigen hype! I feel like I am summoned every time a video mentions it 🤣

[mbranche]

Your recommendations are superb! I loved the Bone Orchard and its cover. It stimulated my mind as it was very different. Goddess of the River is on my tbr. Hey Luna 🐕.

[mischarowe]

Spinning Silver and Nettle and Bone are among my favourites (to read) in the past couple of years so it's awesome to see them at the top of your list too. :)

[Lonelygravesidewriter]

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Song of Achilles are two of my top favourite books 😂

[Zelma]

I feel the same way with Uprooted! It just seemed so long she could’ve cut like 100 pages off of it and it would’ve been a complete book easily. But when I compare it to spinning silver, that was a fast read for me I really enjoyed the characters and the story but uprooted I struggled. So I feel the exact same way with uprooted. And I thought I read that uprooted is the more popular of the two and I feel like I don’t see why. I should’ve DNF it, but I struggled through it.

[Katiedora]

I actually loved Orquídea Divina, but the way you felt about it is how I felt about Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo, lol

[Maximus]

Cool video idea. I’m always looking for good standalones to read between books in a long series. We seem to have similar tastes. I agree with most of your placements of the books I’ve read. I especially agree on Ocean at the End of the Lane. I’m a Gaiman fan, too, but that book did not work for me. I don’t get why people love it.