Some of my favorite series have been Harry Potter, Eragon, and anything Rick Riordan writes. I enjoyed reading The Hunger Games, shamelessly liked reading (not watching) Twilight lol. I like fantasy, worlds I can escape into and feel like a safe space. Really trying to recapture that feeling of reading all of these books I loved and got lost in. I’m not too much into super sexualized things. Like I’m not a prude by any means but dragon sex is kind of an eyebrow raiser for me lol (I saw some mention there was that in Fourth Wing lol)
HELP ME ESCAPE INTO AN AMAZING WORLD PLEASE 😂
by StLoonyToon
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Howl’s Moving Castle! I just finished it tonight. And the His Dark Materials series (the first book is The Golden Compass).
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas is pretty popular and its a series. I read the first book and enjoyed it fairly well, granted fantasy isn’t my genre of choice
The Scholomance books starting with A Deadly Education! I think they would *definitely* be up your alley based on the books you like.
[Nevermoor](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6a6d5ca1-b2f5-47be-828c-018144d3bbc7) by Jessica Townsend!! It’s *EXACTLY* what you’re looking for! And it’s my favorite series for exactly that reason 🙂
His Dark Materials is a pretty amazing trilogy, and even though it’s middle grade it honestly works for all ages.
There’s the imprint Rick Riordan Presents, where they publish similar works to Rick Riordan’s stuff (middle grade / YA, based around mythology from around the world, there’s plenty of action, and generally a fun time reading), so if you liked Riordan’s stuff, anything out of that imprint would probably be just about perfect. I haven’t read everything, but Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee, The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes, and the Aru Shah series by Roshani Chokshi (only read book 1 so far, am planning on continuing) are something I’ve read from that imprint and would definitely recommend.
It’s more slow paced (but similar high stakes), but Odin’s Child by Siri Pettersen is a book/series I probably won’t stop talking about.
I personally DNF-ed it, but mostly because it was very obvious that I wasn’t the target audience, BUT I could see why The Traitor’s Son by Pedro Urvi could potentially be something for someone with a similar reading history as yours.
Robin Hood: Hacking, Heists & Flaming Arrows by Robert Muchamore has similar high action middle grade thing going to Percy Jackson, so definitely recommending that one.
These are all middle grade or YA, but that’s honestly because those age categories are very approachable, and majority of the time solid reading enjoyment. Also, if you’re getting back into reading, very much low stakes reentry.