What is your favorite fantasy series and why do you like it?

My favorite series is The Farseer Trilogy and the Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb (both trilogies are tied together so technically they are apart of the same series). I love her books. Most of them are character driven with intricate plot lines. What I love most about them is that the main character is human. He isn't perfect. In fact, he is one of the most flawed characters I've ever read. The image below is the first book in the series.

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Permalink Reply by The Great Gonzo (JD Bell) on November 2, 2012 at 11:24pm

Harry Potter

I know it's common, but it's good.

Permalink Reply by Brittany Pedersen on November 2, 2012 at 11:27pm

I love HP too. It was my first fantasy series I ever read. In fact, I was ten when it came out so I actually grew up with Harry in a strange kind of way...

Permalink Reply by The Great Gonzo (JD Bell) on November 2, 2012 at 11:30pm

Lucky. I just ended up reading them all in the 3rd and 4th grade.

Permalink Reply by Alison Tee on November 2, 2012 at 11:32pm

It's hard to choose but in terms of pure enjoyability I'd have to say the Bartimaeus Trilogy. The characters are just brilliant, especially the eponymous Bartimaeus -- it's impossible not to love him. I have a soft spot for snarky, sarcastic, narcissistic characters. Stroud's writing style is really funny as well, though in other aspects it's pretty much average.

Permalink Reply by Brittany Pedersen on November 2, 2012 at 11:34pm

I got halfway into the first book about ten years ago when i was in middle school and I never picked it up again. I think i got to busy with school work and just never finished it. I do remember liking it though.

Permalink Reply by The Great Gonzo (JD Bell) on November 2, 2012 at 11:51pm

I've read the first one and stopped about halfway through the second. They're pretty good.

Permalink Reply by Laura Elizabeth Campbell on November 4, 2012 at 8:38pm

THEY ARE SO GOOD!!! So clever, so well-written, so complex!!!

Permalink Reply by Alison Tee on November 2, 2012 at 11:38pm

You should definitely finish the series if you have time, I promise it's good, haha. I picked it up in secondary school from the school library. It was one of the few good books they had there; the rest of the shelves were filled with Twilight or Shopaholics series or Gossip Girls -___-

Permalink Reply by Brittany Pedersen on November 2, 2012 at 11:41pm

Eww, yeah those gossip girl ones are always depressing to find on shelves. I work at a library and I have the unhonor of shelving those books too frequently. ick!

Permalink Reply by Alison Tee on November 3, 2012 at 2:12am

I understand what you mean haha, I volunteer in my school library and it makes me so sad to see those books on the shelving rack while lovely poetry collections and copies of Shakespeare gather dust on the shelves.

Permalink Reply by Zoë Achilles on November 3, 2012 at 12:39am

I don't really have a favorite series... when I was younger I would have defiantly said the lord of the rings; later I would have said the banned and the banished than the godslayer and than harry potter (harry potter actually always was on the top, but every time a new book came out, it would be 1. place), but now I have read to many (good) series, I can't decide which one of them is the best...

Permalink Reply by Laura Elizabeth Campbell on November 4, 2012 at 8:40pm

God there are so many...

LotR, HP (both obvious).

Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan (OMG THE LAST BOOK COMES OUT SOON!!!!)

The Pendragon Cycle by Steven R. Lawhead

The Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

ANYTHING by Tamora Pierce

The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques

I could go on through the rest of my bookshelf, but I'll stop now...