Hello Reddit.
I hope you care enough to help and I hope you get some of the manga refs.
I don’t know specifically what I want next, but I know I want something to sink my teeth into. I read manga and light novels as well, but I’m hoping for a book next.
I’m looking for something with a blend of fiction, romance and action.
Side note: I live for the parts of the stories that explain side quests and things after the main story unfolds. The things that most readers call “fluff” is stuff that I can’t get enough of. I don’t know how to find the right kind of “slice of life” book.
Series I live by:
Harry potter – read them all to death. Love it.
Cheesy romance stuff – The miles high club was an absolute fav, but could have done without all the excessive sex. I get that it was needed, but meh.
Naruto / solo leveling / overgeared (currently reading) / reborn as a slime- where the protagonist works hard on themselves to become a better person and taps into hidden potential to build something great/do something noteworthy in the universe
Main character + powerful sidekick trope – imagine eragon / how to train your dragon. The bond between people and their familiars is <3
I would be very surprised if all of these things can be achieved in one singular book with the right ratio of each but I’m willing to try stuff.
I really hope you can suggest something.
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Thank you for your time.
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by fluffers_the_unicorn
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You might like The Tarot Sequence books by K.D. Edwards.
The 2 Necromancers series by L. G. Estrella. 2 Necromancers try to earn a pardon for past crimes by doing odd jobs for a kingdom. Lots of action, long series, half step books that go into side stories if the characters (think Ba Sing Se stories episode, if you’ve watched Avatar The Last Airbender). The first book in the series is 2 Necromancers, A Bureaucrate, and an Elf.
you might like some of the Diana Wynne Jones books. she has a great knack for making her magical worlds feel *mundane* – but I mean it in a good way. enough detail that you really believe this entirely different reality is entirely normal and ordinary to the people in it.
the Merlin conspiracy – there’s magic and a conspiracy and a quest and romance where both characters have to kind of admit certain things about themselves, *to* themselves.
power of three: a bit middle-school age group, but has lots about the three different peoples the story is made of.
the Narnia chronicles are detailed that way. lewis doesn’t hand-wave “so they hiked for six weeks through the mountains, until they arrived.”