The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Sunne in Splendour

Jeremy Forsyth ❤️ loved this book because...

Imagine the perfect book, one that makes you feel every emotion under the sun, whose writer showcases incredible skill, and whose characters felt more real than your own mother. Well that is what reading The Sunne in Splendour was like.

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    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Sharon Kay Penman,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Sunne in Splendour as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

This special thirtieth anniversary edition of the bestselling The Sunne in Splendour, features an author's note from Sharon Penman.

Richard, last-born son of the Duke of York, was seven months short of his nineteenth birthday when he bloodied himself at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury, earning his legendary reputation as a battle commander in the Wars of the Roses, and ending the Lancastrian line of succession.

But Richard was far more than a warrior schooled in combat. He was also a devoted brother, an ardent suitor, a patron of the arts, an indulgent father, a generous friend. Above all,…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Other Fairleaf

Jeremy Forsyth ❤️ loved this book because...

This book was a fast read, full of excitement, and vivid characters. The world-building was incredible, and the plot engaging. It was one of my favourite reads of all time.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jeremy Forsyth,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Other Fairleaf as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The time has come to celebrate Liberation Day with another Karnaea. But while the contests rage to thunderous applause within the city of Lowvilla, its palace is infiltrated by a brand new danger.

Trone and Eldrian Fairleaf gear up to watch their favourite warriors battle each other during the Karnaea tournaments, but they're forced to team up like never before when an Efshas terrorist is discovered in the palace with vengeance in his heart and a thirst for blood --- Flaramoon blood.


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Little Fairleaf

Jeremy Forsyth ❤️ loved this book because...

This was one of the unforgtable reads; I love the two main characters, the emotions they inspired, and the world they belong to is so incredible. Wonderful book!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Jeremy Forsyth,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Little Fairleaf as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The Fairleafs are a humble family on the rise, and its senior members exhibit their ambition by formulating a daring plan: to get the attention of Alepion's royalty. Trone and Eldrian Fairleaf are two young brothers who play at war but are thrust into their parents' game of high stakes and fatal mistakes; theirs is the task of befriending the two Daughters of Alepion. But while the brothers pursue the Daughters, other plots have hatched in the night, and the Old Way have plans of their own, and they won't let two Fairleaf children stand in their way of an…


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Upon the Sands

By Jeremy Forsyth,

Book cover of Upon the Sands

What is my book about?

Of the Elvin Realms, the Moon rises highest while the Sands diminish through infighting. The Sun remains undying, burning bright but the Stars dream of outshining all.

As the Fairleaf brothers depart the Realm, both of them fear for the other, for upon the sands, enemies gather as they do across the sea, and back home, the Dead Gods stir, unrest grows in the lands, and far away, Darkness prepares His return.

Eldrian Fairleaf - youngest of the Fairleafs, fierce, loyal, brave... and bitter, abandons all in a rash move to rescue an elvess of soft grace and beauty, an elves prophesised to be the love of his life.

Eldrian crosses the country with murderous intent upon the one who took Alerian Lightchild from her home, from him...

Trone Fairleaf - the eldest son of his father, astute and powerful, leads a diplomatic mission across the seas to the Human Lands, where he faces treachery in his ranks, a hostile Daughter of Alepion who despises his family, and the prospect of never returning home should the mission fail and the Humans betray the alliance.

Alerian Lightchild - a quiet, peaceful, and shy elvess of no particular importance heads off to the enemy lands in a desperate attempt to heal the apparently contaminated Proloss River but is taken prisoner instead by a Sand Elf, the enemy of her people.

While she tries to escape, this Sand Elf begins displaying possessive tendencies towards her, until eventually, he decides he can't hold back any longer - he wants her, and he won't let anyone stop him from having her.

Alanis Malgan Wingflow - heir to the throne, narcissistic, a skilled warrior, has unleashed the Urathins from Moon Leaf, dark sorcerers who it's believed can help win the war and put Alanis's family back in power.

Except he discovers Moon Elves in his lands and an elvess who plagues his mind and his heart daily - Alerian! Alanis wants her, and will stop at nothing in order to have her!

Ramian Starwar - Mindfinder, able to control the minds of animals, has no need for friends, but instead, finds joy and solace in applying himself to study and to achieving the tasks his secret masters have for him - the only problem is, his briefs are being intercepted, and worst of all, Ramian believes they are being intercepted and deciphered by the head of the Order of Nallara, Absiden Singwaters, the Arch Mindfinder.

Book cover of The Sunne in Splendour
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