One of the fun prompts for Wyrd & Wonder is to list five of your five-star books and describe each of them in five words! I thought it would be fun to give this a shot, so I’ve pulled five of my favorite fantasy books from the archives. And yes, I know in several cases I used more than five words! Here we go:
The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker
dragon | seafaring adventure | intrigue | danger | compassion
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
zombies | humor | heartbreak | animals | cheetos
Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames
heart | emotion | humor | bard | adventure
The Queen of Swords by R.S. Belcher
pirates | Africa | female-centric | adventure | magic ships
The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Chinese folklore | humor | ghosts | magic | family
This was such an interesting exercise! It shows that certain elements are very important to me and when done right, they often lead to a 5-star rating. In all five books, humor is one of my favorite elements (even in The Bone Ships and The Queen of Swords, even though I didn’t use “humor” as one of my words.) Also “adventure” and “heart” are important as well.
This is such a fun prompt, and I’m happy every time it surfaces, especially when I see how the same book inspires very different word choices as a focus 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
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You’re right, every reader sees different strengths in books, and it’s fun to see comparisons:-)
A mighty fine list! And you probably could’ve hyphenated “seafaring-adventure” and “magic-ships”. So they’d sorta be one word. Hmmm, but not Chinese folklore. That’s definitely two words lol
Ha ha so true!
You mentioned a ton of interesting books! I haven’t read any of them but most of them are on my TBR! And this post was a funny read!
Thanks Susy, it was a really fun exercise:-)
I haven’t read these books, but the hubster and I are looking for a new buddy read, so maybe soon. I bet it was difficult to narrow down descriptions to five words!
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It was hard! I’m very curious now to see what buddy read book you guys pick:-)
I haven’t read any of these yet, but I have 3 of them (The Bone Ships, Bloody Rose, and The Girl with the Ghost Eyes) so I’m pushing those higher on my TBR. And Cheetos? 🙂
Ha ha, the crow in Hollow Kingdom LOVES cheetos and it’s kind of a running joke:-)
I’m obsessed with wanting to read The Bone Ships! xD
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I hope you read it, Stephanie!
I’m so happy to see that The Girl with Chost Eyes made your list!
I feel like I put it on every list I can!
A very good list, Tammy! Zombies and humor really don’t go hand-in-hand, but I remember you oozing appreciation on Hollow Kingdom. SO, maybe the author has executed the concept really well.
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Oh zombies and humor go extremely well together, as long as the author is Kira Jane Buxton;-)
I love having to try and describe something only in a few words! These all sound like they would be good!
It was harder than I thought it would be:-)
What a great idea!! ❤️ I really enjoyed this post and OMG, The Queen of Swords cover is beautiful ✨
It was a lot of fun!
I love this!!! Hollow Kingdom is one of my priority books for this summer. 🙂
Oh cool! I hope you have fun with it:-)
If The Bone Ships wasn’t already on my TBR, you would have convinced me to add it 😛 I did this tag a couple weeks ago; you already read my post 🙂
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I think you’re one of the blogs that gave me the idea, it was fun:-)
It’s such a great prompt! I’m glad Bone Ships made your list, and I’m really curious about The Hollow Kingdom, so thanks for reminding me to read it! 🙂
Definitely try to read Hollow Kingdom, it’s so good:-)
I have it on my TBR!
Everybody’s done such a great job with these!
It was fun, you should try it!
Fun post and I love that Cheetos made your list for Hollow Kingdom, lol.
It’s one of the first words I thought of, lol.
Such a fun prompt! It looks easy to do at first but, I think I would struggle to narrow down into 5 words why I love my favorite books haha.
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It’s a little tough! And then after I finished, of course I thought of better words to use:-)
Cheetos? I wasn’t expecting Cheetos, but Hollow Kingdom is on my TBR so I’ll see how it works out.
You’ll understand once you read it:-)
This is a fun prompt! I need The Girl with Ghost Eyes!
Now that you mention it this is a really good way of narrowing down what really works for you as a reader. I should try it with some more books, maybe on a more regular basis – or add it into my reviews as a quick headline or attention grabber.
Lynn 😀
Will never get tired of The Girl with Ghost Eyes! I need to check The Bone Ships! Everyone seems to love that one.