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<\/p>\nI enjoyed this last year, so I thought I’d do it again.<\/p>\n
We’ll start with the fantasy books published in 2016 that made my end of the year favorites list. I count as Frontlist anything published in 2016 that I read in 2016 or 2017.\u00a0 Backlist is (obviously) anything published in 2016 that I read after 2017.
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This year and 2017 will be particularly interesting, because I went through a really bad period in 2016 and was struggling until 2018. I also cut back sharply on my book purchasing at the end of 2016 and that lasted through 2018 and a bit beyond.<\/p>\n
So I see some series that I really liked, but didn’t follow up on reading any later books as I wasn’t buying many new books for the next couple of years.<\/p>\n
Which means I really need to go back to the Lychford, Shadowshaper, and Termontaine series.<\/p>\n
And finally read those last Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood books. And get caught up on the Mercy Thompson series…<\/p>\n
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I’d actually pre-ordered The Raven King<\/em>, but held off reading it, mostly because I didn’t want the series to end. But the follow-up series, Ronan’s series, (heart eyes!) fell through the cracks and I really need to read it.<\/p>\n I loved the entire Lady Trent series, and the audio was lovely. But each book was more than 300 pages, and none was a stand alone, so that’s a pretty big commitment if it’s not something I’m listening to.<\/p>\n I’ve loved everything I’ve read by Lish McBride, but for some reason hold off on reading new books, in fear\u00a0this<\/em> one won’t be as good as the others.<\/p>\n All in all, most of the books that made my best of the year are ones I’ve come back to, or that have otherwise stuck in my brain in some manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I enjoyed this last year, so I thought I’d do it again. We’ll start with the fantasy books published in 2016 that made my end of the year favorites list. I count as Frontlist anything published in 2016 that I read in 2016 or 2017.\u00a0 Backlist is (obviously) anything published in 2016 that I read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-55X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19589"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19615,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions\/19615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}