Cover illustration by: Chris McGrath
White Night by Jim Butcher
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Series: The Dresden Files (Book #9 of 25)
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 528 pages (US Kindle edition)
Published: 4th March 2010 by Orbit (UK) & 3rd April 2007 by Roc (US)
I’ve mentioned this several times, but it’s always safe to rely on The Dresden Files for a quick entertaining read. …
Click here if you want to see the list of all the books I’ve read so far this year: Petrik’s Year in Books (2020)
Between 1st January 2020 until 30th June 2020, I’ve read and reviewed 71 books (35.7k pages).
Please read this first. There will be three rules I set in this list in order for me to give appreciation to more authors rather than having only a few authors hoarding this list. These rules allow me to highlight more authors, and at the same time, I’ll also be able to include both new and older books (many of them still need attention) that I read within this year.
Do note that although there’s a rank to this list, I HIGHLY recommend every book/series listed below because I loved all of them immensely, and they received a rating of 4.5 or 5 out of 5 stars from me. Without further ado, here are the top 15 books I’ve read this year so far! (All full reviews of the books listed can be found on Novel Notions and my Goodreads page.) …
Cover illustration by: Chris McGrath
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: The Dresden Files (Book #8 of 25)
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 428 pages (US Kindle edition)
Published: 4th March 2010 by Orbit (UK) & 1st February 2006 by Roc (US)
Not as good as Dead Beat, but this is another great read, as expected. …
Cover illustration by: Chris McGrath
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Series: The Dresden Files (Book #7 of 25)
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 408 pages (US Kindle edition)
Published: 4th March 2010 by Orbit (UK) & 3rd May 2005 by Roc (US)
We human don’t deserve dogs, but how about Tyrannosaurus?
“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
Paternus: War of Gods by Dyrk Ashton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Series: The Paternus Trilogy (Book #3 of 3)
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mythologies
Pages: 746 pages
Published: 23rd June 2020 by Paternus Books Media (Indie)
Bloody magnificent. Urban fantasy novel just doesn’t get more epic than Paternus: War of Gods. …
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: The Dresden Files (Book #6 of 25)
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 372 pages (US Kindle edition)
Published: 4th March 2010 by Orbit (UK) & 3rd August 2004 by Roc (US)
“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.”
As if anyone would believe that, Harry. …
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: The Dresden Files (Book #5 of 25)
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 464 pages (US Kindle edition)
Published: 4th March 2010 by Orbit (UK) & 5th August 2003 by Roc (US)
Harry Dresden need some sleep, and he’s not getting one easily.
Night Shift Dragons by Rachel Aaron
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Series: DFZ (Book 3 of 3)
Genre: Urban fantasy
Published: 5th May 2020 (Aaron/Bach, self-published)
Night Shift Dragons delivered a spectacular and hugely emotionally satisfying conclusion to Rachel Aaron’s follow-up urban fantasy series set in the insanely cool, quirky and vibrant free city of the DFZ.
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ARC received from publisher, Orbit UK, in exchange for an honest review.
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Great Cities (Book 1)
Genre: Urban fantasy, horror
Published: 24th March 2020 by Orbit US & 26th March 2020 by Orbit UK
The City We Became is a unique take on urban fantasy that reaffirms N.K. Jemisin as a brilliant author of imaginative and original fantasy fiction.
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Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: The Dresden Files (Book #4 of 25)
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 379 pages (US Kindle edition)
Published: 4th March 2010 by Orbit (UK) & 3rd September 2002 by Roc (US)
Summer Knight was super fun, and I expect the quality of the series can only stay consistently good or better from here on out. …