We have compiled a list of three fantasy novels if you want to pick up the habit of reading or maybe you want to rediscover it after a prolonged slump. Fantasy is an excellent way to start the habit because the books in the genre are exciting, engaging, and action-packed.
If you want to kickstart your reading habit, you may consider these fantasy books:
The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
Photo / Hanover Square Press
A quaint little store that sells dreams lies in a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious. Each floor in the department store sells a special kind of dream, including nostalgic dreams about your childhood, trips you’ve taken, delicious food you’ve eaten, nightmares, and more mysterious dreams.
In Dallergut Dream Department Store, we meet Penny, an enthusiastic new hire; Dallergut, the flamboyant owner of the department store; Agnap Coco, a producer of special dreams; Vigo Myers, an employee in the mystery department; and a cast of curious, funny, and strange clientele who regularly visit the store. When one of the most coveted and expensive dreams gets stolen during Penny’s first week, we follow along as she tries to uncover the workings of this wonderfully whimsical world.
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Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott
Photo / Vintage
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories is a collection of dark fairy tales and fractured folklore exploring how love can save us—or go monstrously wrong.
Two young women working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets—and their doomed summer love. A group of witchy teens concocts the perfect plan to induce the hated new girl into their ranks. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. Two outcasts, a vampire and a goat woman, find solace in each other, even as the world’s lack of understanding might bring about its end.
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Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba
Photo / Titan Books
In this enthralling epic fantasy inspired by the Philippines, a nun concealing a goddess-given gift is unwillingly transformed into a lightning rod for her people’s struggle against colonization.
Maria Lunurin has been living a double life for as long as she can remember. To the world, she is Sister Maria, a dutiful nun and devoted servant of Aynila’s Codician colonizers. But behind closed doors, she is a stormcaller, chosen daughter of the Aynilan goddess Anitun Tabu. While hiding from the Codicians and the vengeful eye of her slighted goddess, Lunurin does what she can to protect her fellow Aynilans and the small family she has created with her lover Catalina and Cat’s younger sister Inez.
Lunurin is determined to keep her head down – until one day, she makes a devastating discovery that threatens to tear her family apart. In desperation, she turns for help to Alon Dakila, heir to Aynila’s most powerful family and a gods-blessed healer who has been ardently in love with Lunurin for years. But this choice sets a chain of events beyond her control, awakening Anitun Tabu’s rage and putting everyone Lunurin loves in terrible danger, for the goddess of storms demands vengeance. And she will sweep aside anyone who stands in her way.
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