Jaden's Guide To Reading 5⭐️ Series

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This week's theme is FANTASY 🧚🏽‍♀️

Jaden’s recommendations

1st Installment

Fantasy:

Fantasy subgenres 

Romantic Fantasy (fantasy plot, romantic subplot):

THE FOLK OF THE AIR SERIES:

Falls under the following sub genres: Political Fantasy & Romantic Fantasy

Jaden’s Overall Rating: 5⭐️

Jaden’s Top series of 2023

Key Tropes:

Enemies to Lovers

Brief Description:

The Cruel Prince is an addictive YA fantasy, and an interesting beginning of The Folk of the Air series, that revolves around Jude, a human girl's survival in the Faerieland.

THE EMPYREAN SERIES (incomplete):

Falls under the following subgenres: Military Fantasy & Romantic Fantasy

Jaden’s Overall Rating: 5⭐️

Key Tropes:

Mild Enemies to Lovers

Brief Description:

The Empyrean series follows Cadet Violet Sorrengail, a young woman who is plunged into a deadly training school for dragon riders when her mother enrolls her.

THE POWERLESS TRILOGY (incomplete) :

Falls under the following subgenres: Romantic Fantasy

Jaden’s Overall Rating: 4.7⭐️

Key Tropes:

Slow burn

Banter

Mild Enemies to lovers

Forbidden love

Brief Description:

This young adult fantasy follows the forbidden romance between a powerful prince and an ordinary girl as they try to survive their kingdom's grueling laws pitting them against each other. She is the very thing he's spent his whole life hunting.

ELEMENTS OF CADENCE DUOLOGY (2 romantic subplots) :

Falls under the following subgenres: Whimsical Fantasy & Romantic Fantasy

Jaden’s Overall Rating: 4.65 ⭐️

Key Tropes:

Rivals to lovers

Marriage of convenience 

Brief Description:

Ten years after being sent away to the mainland to become a bard, Jack Tamerlaine is summoned home to Cadence. Girls are going missing from the island, and Adaira, his childhood nemesis and the future leader of the clan, believes Jack is the only one who can find them.

Fantasy Romance (romance plot, fantasy subplot) :

Once Upon A Broken Heart Series:

Falls under the following subgenres: Whimsical Fantasy, Fairytale Fantasy, & Fantasy Romance 

Jaden’s Overall Rating: 5⭐️

Jaden’s Top series of 2023

Key Tropes:

Reluctant Allies

Enemies to Lovers

Forbidden love

Brief Description:

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings . . . until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts.

CARAVAL SERIES:

 (once upon a broken heart’s predecessor) 

Falls under the following subgenres: Whimsical Fantasy & Fantasy Romance

Jaden’s Overall Rating: 4.3⭐️

Key Tropes:

Reluctant Allies

Forbidden Love

Brief Description:

Caraval is a trilogy following two sisters, Scarlett and Tella Dragna, who have never left their tiny home island where their father not only governs the people, but his two daughters with a heavy hand. The sisters find themselves playing a game to escape their abusive father, and the one rule of the game is to remember what’s real, and what’s not.

Reading is about enjoyment so make sure you are reading books that you know you will like! 🫶🏾