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Damn, there are some great reads on this list! I read Elements of Time at the end of summer and had a blast. Also can't wait to check out The Bartender Between Worlds! Great vid as always Abel :)
Thank you for watching, Joshua. Now GO FINISH THE BOOK 💀 🫂🫂🫂
I love the Stormlight and never read Mistborn; I guess one day! I'm actually hoping to get into Wilson's novella soon, it's definitely a promising series. ANd Janny Wurts' series, I have the audiobook but honestly don't have time to get into another long series. Great recs, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching, Livia! I actually love Mistborn more than Stormlight, but that's a hot take I guess 😂 And yes, Wilson is a riding star for sure! I understand long series can be daunting. I'm in the middle of Stormlight, The Wheel of Time and now this. (Also, I'll try MALAZAN soon) Send help!
First of all, mad respect for filming this in the scorching heat... sending all the cool vibes your way this summer 🥲❤ Thanks for all these summer recs, so many books I had never heard of before. Though yes, thanks for the loving kick in the butt with JDL Rosell, I really need to get back to his works!! Also, really great SPFBOX review once again, you are so good at pointing out the highs and lows of a book, which makes it so easy to gauge whether the book will be the right fit for me. Give yourself a pat on the back for that ;) Happy reading, Abel 🤩
Thank you Esmay, it is always great to read your comments 🔥 I suffered so damn much to record this video (and edit it). I even tried to shorten it but it ended up being a 50 minute behemoth 😸 I survived, though! Yay me! In any case, I am proud to dispense ass-kicking in Josiah's name. This man deserves ALL the READERS in the world! I am glad you are enjoying my reviews. Indeed, it is often a challenge. Being a (sub)judge pushes me to be more analytical and detailed because I feel the responsibility of being part of the contest mechanism. Often I am not sure if I have done a good job but your words give me courage! Thank you again for your amazing support! 💚
@@bookswithabel I love the behemoth videos hahaha, keep them coming ;))) And don't let your brain bully you, I can say with 100% confidence that your reviews are the perfect balance of insightful, kind, critical, entertaining and helpful. You are rocking it!!
@@esmayrosalyne Thank you Esmay, that's a huge infusion of confidence and I'm SO GRATEFUL 💚!
Jany W. Is one of the most underappreciated fantasy authors ever! Her work is absolutely spellbinding! ❤
Oh yes, I finally understand why so many people say so!
This was awesome! I am very glad I discovered your channel! 😊👍
Aww! You made my day 🤟🏽 Thank you for watching!
Great video, Abel! So many gems
Thank you for watching! And yes, I feel very lucky. This is one of my best reading years ever 😸
Love it! Loads of good books on this list!
Thank you for watching! 🔥🔥🔥
Lots of great summer reads to check out. Sandstorm sounds good. Great video - the length didn't bother me 🙂
Thank you for watching the whole thing! Sometimes I try to cut down the runtime, but I end up hating the result because I'm a verbose speaker 🤣 Moreover, I can't upload weekly so I usually have a lot to talk about. I'm happy the lengthy discussion didn't bother you 💪🏽💚
This was a great lineup to be a part of. Thank you for your review of Child of Vanris!
Thank you for watching. I'm happy you enjoyed the review! 🔥
I’m on the third book of Wurts’s War of Light and Shadow and loving it. -Palmer
Ah, I'm just at the beginning of my journey and I already can tell it'll be glorious 🔥
Thanks, Abel! It's an honor to be placed alongside these other great books 🙏
My pleasure, Bryan, and thank you for watching!
I hadn’t heard of Elements of Time or Ruins of the Galaxy. They both sound good and I ordered them. Thanks for the Dark Town shoutout. -Palmer
Elements of Time is a gem of a book. It deserves far more attention for sure. And it has so many things going on, great characters, great worldbuilding. A great story all around. Ruins of The Galaxy is MASSIVE. Especially on audible, the whole series is very well loved and has a huge fanbase. If you're searching for something fun, and highly serialized, then it's the perfect book! Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much Abel for including EOT on your list :D
What are you doing here, Sam. How to write book 2 NOW! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for watching 🔥
@@bookswithabel I'm working on it I promise!! And am about to drop some more stuff to keep you happy in the meantime 😄😄😄
@@SamPaisley17 YOU BETTER 😸
Thank you Abel for including Guild of Tokens!!!
Thank you for watching! Happy to shine a little light on your amazing books 💪🏽
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Happy to find your channel. Really enjoy your descriptions and detail of wide variety of books. You have new subscriber.
Thank you very much! I am so happy that you want to be part of this little community and I hope my videos will help you find new books to read. Thank you for watching!
Great detail reviews again.
Thank you Laura!
You had me looking up “Alliance Rising”. I’ve got a few Cherryh books, but I’ve not read any in a decade or more, I would imagine. Curious to hear about a new(er) series. I’ve been reading Marko Kloos for a few years now. I would read his completed “Frontlines” series before “Frontlines: Evolution”. I’ve only read the first two “Palladium Wars” books so far, but I have much enjoyed his Military SF over the past many years.
Yes, I've found a complete reading order for Cherryh's books and it is pretty daunting 😁😁😁 But I'll definitely start with this one, even if I failed to mention that it's co-authored. I've seen some books from Kloos around in the last couple of years but I didn't know he had a substantial back catalogue and that makes his work even more interesting to me 😂 Thank you for watching!
Just discovered this channel and had to subscribe instantly.
Ok you actually brightened my day 🤟🏽
You are truly becoming one of my favourite reviewers, I love your in-depth rambly thoughts so much!! Nice to hear that you are having such a blast as a judge for SPFBOX, I think we are all blessed to have you on board! And how exciting that The Justice of Kings was even better on reread, I am looking forward to your video comparing the Italian and English versions! Thanks for the great reviews and exciting new books added to the TBR 🤩
Thank you for watching Esmay, and for enduring my really long, super rumbly videos 😹😹😹 I'm proud of the work I'm doing with SPFBOX, and honestly I've been assigned good material so it's exactly heavy lifting 😁 To be honest, I don't usually reread many books, but I'm glad I got around THE JUSTICE OF KINGS another time because it was SO worth it, and yeah, let's see if that weird bilingual video comes to fruition in the end, I'd love it! Thank you for being an awesome member of this little community! 💚
@@bookswithabel I feel you on being blessed with a great batch of books for SPFBOX... though that's both a blessing and a curse because it's so hard to just choose one to put forward!! 🤣🥲
@@esmayrosalyne absolutely, it'll be a hard call 😱
Finding joy in the experience of reading the book rather than the content of the book is wonderful and I agree. 😊 Loved hearing you talk about all these wonderful books. Great answers to the tag!
Thank you for watching! And yes, the tag somehow made me appreciate all the books I've read even more 😹
@@bookswithabel haha these tags always bring out the appreciation in full force! 😄
I love old sci-fi as well. CJ Cherryh is fantastic. Try her Faded Sun Trilogy. It's one of her earlier and most beutiful stories. Her Foreigner books are also excellent if you like anthroplogy and political intrigue in your science fiction. Love your content! Hope to get up the courage to start my own channel soon.
Thank you for watching! Absolutely, I need to read more Cherryh! And yes, by all means, do start that channel, I'll be cheering for you 🤟🏽
Great reviews! I hadn't heard of Kloos tbh, and it seems interesting; definitely epic in scale!! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching! Yes, definitely we need to keep an eye on Kloos
I really appreciate the thought and detail you put into your reviews!!
Thank you for watching! And thank you for your kind words 💚
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I'm interested in Navola. He's written two great SF standalones.
Thank you for watching! Yes, the man has a solid resume 🔥
No estan en español😢
Puedes leer LA FORTALEZA DIGITAL de Dan Brown o AGENT ZERO escrito por Jack Mars, ambos en español
Between you and JamReads, my TBR list is growing endlessly. Great deep summarizations of these books and how they impacted you.
Mission accomplished 😂😂😂!!! And thank you for watching!
First of all, a big hug to you!! I hope you are doing okay, sending positive vibes your way ❤ Amazing reviews as always! I totally agree on everything you said for A Memory of Song, I had a very similar experience. And oooh I can't wait to read The Sunset Sovereign! Also, I have read both Riven Earth and Sundered Moon, and that is now one of my favourite duologies. I think you will love it as well! About that backlog of books you never reviewed in English on the channel... I would love to see some of your thoughts on those books that missed their chance in the spotlight here, but only if you feel like doing that! No pressure 🥰
Thank you Esmay, both for watching the video and for the positive vibes 💚 Reading helps me, as always, to clear my mind and try not to let the negativity of everyday life weigh me down. Ah, now I am even more eager to read or Zammar's books! And yes, I will probably open a small section to talk about novels I read years ago, and that I love with all my heart. Thanks again!
@@bookswithabel I am right there with you, reading is my therapy and my escape! Looking forward to those catch-up videos, have fun making them!!
Ah Abel, wanted to give you a hug while you were discussing that line about (that character). I'm sorry for whatever you may be going through in your life right now, but knowing some of my words may have helped ease even a little of the pain gives me warmth. I wrote that ending because it was how my third grade teacher passed away when I was a kid. She was the first person I had ever experienced death with, and I had a hard time coming to terms with the finality of it all. In the end, I had told myself that line, and gave it a sense of bittersweet beauty that I feel passing on deserves. To know her effect on me has effected others is sort of a beautiful thought. Thank you for sharing all your kind words and for being there since the begining.
Thank you Tom. The words you wrote about (that character) and the way she passed away made me think a lot. There are a thousand ways to lose someone we love, but inexorable old age can be especially cruel, especially if their mind slowly but surely shuts down before the rest of their body. I will hold those words close to my heart, because for me they represent hope. Thank you for everything.
Abel, thanks so much for mentioning Riven Earth & Sundered Moon! And my silly little channel! Booktuber is a tad generous, but I've had fun with my two videos haha 😁
Thank you for watching, and congratulations 🎉!
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Very disco-y music. Thank you for the reviews.
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Great video Abel! So many great sounding books that I hadn’t heard of before. Hopefully you continue to have a wonderful reading year. Do you have any indie author recommendations with prose similar to Robin Hobb, Susana Clarke, or Tad Williams? I’m not sure if you’ve read them or not. Enjoy the rest of your day!
Thank you for watching! Haven't read anything from Clarke, and just read only a couple of chapters from The Dragonbone Chair in Italian (ugly translation, stopped and waiting to read it in English). I've been told that The Way of Dean by Philip Chase has a great epic scope that could be assimilated to the great classic by Williams. I don't know how correct that statement is, but the first book is really strong. Still haven't read an indie book that could be compared to what Hobb achieved, but I'll ask around. I'm pretty sure we'll find at least some authors inspired by her overall goals and prose and books given how influential she is 👀
"This is my video and I can do what I want 😂 I feel the exact way for my vids too! Also, I need to push Elements of Time up on my TBR!
This KZread channel is not a democracy 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And yes, definitely read Elements of Time 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thank you for watching!
Wow the way you described my novel made me cry (and smile). Thank you for bringing attention to all these great reads. Elements of Time is a novel I need to check out one day.
Thank you for watching! I'm happy you enjoyed this preview, and I'm sure you'll love Elements of Time! 🔥
Can say good things about book one.
Thank you for watching!
So happy to hear that it's been such an outstanding year for you! And are you really a reader if you don't pick more than 1 favourite? Hahahah, can't blame you 🤣 I really need to get back into the Songs of Kamaria series! And I want to read Dark Town so badly 🤩 Hope the second half of the year is just as good, if not better!
I mean, how can we really decide favourites 😂😂😂 IMPOSSIBLE!!! Yeah, definitely go and finish the Kamaria trilogy, it's a great ride! And Dark Town is such a unique blend of genres, I'm sure it'll be a fun read too! Thank you for watching!
Great video, Abel! I completely agree with you in regard to not reviewing a book that I DNF. I think it’s unethical to review and especially to rate a book that I didn’t actually read. I hope you’ll get a lot from Curse of the Mistwraith - Wurts is one of the most talented writers I’ve ever read!
Thank you for watching Philip! I appreciate your support, especially since it looks like my opinion about ratings is not that popular 😂 But yeah, that's a hill I'm dyïng on 😂 Ah, I'm loving Curse of the Mustwraith!
Amazing list of books! Thank you so much for including Pathlighter among them 🔥
Thank you for watching! Pathlighter deserved a spot 🔥
Wow, holy moly...best book of 2024 so far for you? I'm beyond honoured Abel
Just being honest! Thank you for watching Sam!
Great stuff! Thanks, Abel! I'm glad you enjoyed THE SON OF THE PROPHETS 😀
Thank you for watching! I'll read the novella as soon as possible ✨
What a great tag list, and thank you for shouting me out Abel!
Absolutely well deserved! Thank you for watching!
Lots of interesting choices! I’m a twin so the twin book sounds especially interesting:) . I’m going to guess they didn’t plan for Luke and Leia to be siblings until later, but who knows 😂. I hope you enjoy everything you read this month!
A TWIN??? That's awesome! Yeah I'm gonna say Lucas did a 180 with that plot development 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for watching, this month has been spectacular reading wise
Thanks for the overview of these books. Looking forward to hearing more. -Palmer
Thank you Palmer! I can't wait to dove deep into ALL THOSE books 😂😂😂
thanks for showcasing the work of all these wonderful authors!
Thank you for watching! I love to discuss lesser known books, and I appreciate your support 🔥
Oooh yes, that short story by Ryan Cahill was one of my faves of the collection, Vars' backstory was so good!! And gosh, I can't wait to reread Fortune's Fool in anticipation of book 2, that is such a lush and rich story! I also really have to check out more JDL Rosell after loving The Last Ranger, thanks for putting this higher on my radar! 🤩
Fortune's Fool is calling, calling at me so hard 🤩🤩🤩 YES, definitely read more Josiah, such a wonderful author 🔥 Thank you for watching Esmay 💚