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7 Escapist Adventure Fantasy Books
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7 Escapist Adventure Fantasy Books
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7 Excellent Escapist Adventure Fantasy Books
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Illustration from
The Three Musketeers by Maurice Leloir (D. Appleton & Company, 1911)
It’s never a bad time for adventure fantasy, but I would posit that now is the best time for adventure fantasy.
Here are some of my favourites, hand-selected for escapism, intrigue, high density of swordfights, and sheer enjoyment. Ideal if you have a fire handy to curl up beside. (Surely I am not the only one with a persistent daydream of sitting in a huge wingback armchair before a crackling hearth?)
I read this trilogy beginning with
The Ninth Rain back to back, start to finish, something I don’t think I’ve done with a series for years. These books are just terrifically good fun. They reminded me, in the best way, of curling up in the school library and discovering the great fantasy standards for the first time. They have everything I loved as a teenager mythical beasts, heroic last stands, unfathomable foes with a fresh modern twist and a pervading sense of humour. But, most im