4 near-perfect fantasy books to read if you love Elden Ring

However many times you've been beaten to a pulp by a boss, there's a book for you If you’ve played Fromsoft’s 2022 RPG video game, Elden Ring, then played the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, wrangled friends for rounds of Elden Ring Nightreign, then still found yourself with a The Lands Between-sized void in your heart, we’re here for you. Looking for something filled with magic, decaying cities, powerful demigods, and reluctant heroes to keep you busy until Alex Garland and A24’s adaptation finally hits the big screen? Our pitch to you: crack open a book. Here are four fantasy titles that Elden Ring fans will enjoy, whether you prefer to play as a bandit, a hero, a warrior, a wretch, or anything in between. No one does highly detailed world building, strange magic systems, or charming sentient objects quite like Robert Jackson Bennett. When Sancia Grado, a talented thief, is offered an incomprehensibly large sum of money to steal something from a heavily guarded warehouse located on the docks of Tevanne, the last thing she expects is for that artifact to have the ability to talk in her head. Or be able to rewrite magic itself by making other everyday objects sentient and convincing the

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