Top Fantasy Books of 2024

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Wind and Truth (Released: December 2024)

Author(s): Brandon Sanderson

Ratings and Reviews from Hardcover

Rating: 4.35 (269 Ratings, 31 Reviews)

Pages: 1329

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin has challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions, and the Knights Radiant and the nations of Roshar have a mere 10 days to prepare for the worst. The fate of the entire world―and the Cosmere at large―hangs in the balance.

Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction / Fantasy / Military, Fiction / Fantasy / Epic

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The Familiar (Released: January 2024)

Author(s): Leigh Bardugo

Ratings and Reviews from Hardcover

Rating: 3.70 (145 Ratings, 41 Reviews)

Pages: 380

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance