5 Fantasy Getaways: Summer Fantasy Books to Beat the Heat
- iyrunner9
- May 27
- 3 min read
When the thermostat soars, there’s nothing better than a page-turner that whisks you off to cloud-sailing realms, sentient magic, and interstellar sword-play. Let these 5 Fantasy Getaways: Summer Fantasy Books to Beat the Heat serve you this season—no sunscreen required.
1. Aithos by Izaic Yorks
ISBN-13: 979-8987336977
📖 Tropes: Skyships • Broken Hero • Found Father/Son • Destiny and Choice
Why It’s Compelling: Ezhno Gamello is a deformed cartographer-scientist racing through stratostorms to prove the world is a globe—and free his incarcerated father. Anchors (sources of ancient magic) bend reality, and only Ezhno’s alchemical notebooks and a reanimated “corpse” companion can help him navigate the moral and literal fog. Why fry inside when you can chase stratostorms at 20,000 feet—and feel that natural air-conditioning?”
My Pitch:
If Tolkien had studied cosmology and given Frodo a flying ship and a corpse-sketched journal, married it to the Wheel of Time and had an afffair with Treasure Planet... you’d get Aithos. It’s a smart, swashbuckling tale for fans who want their fantasy with soul.
2. Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
ISBN-13: 978-1524760366
📖 Tropes: Code-as-Magic • Rogue Protagonist • Industrial Sorcery • Lost Gods
Why It’s Compelling: In the merchant city of Tevanne, magic is written in runic code. Thief Sancia Grado steals a sentient artifact that can overwrite reality—drawing the attention of merciless guilds and ancient powers who’ve been hiding in plain sight. Nothing cools you down like literally reprogramming reality—and maybe unlocking an ice-cold vault while you’re at it.
My Pitch:
It’s cyberpunk heist fiction twisted into high fantasy—where hacking spells is as dangerous as pickpocketing a god.
3. The Red Sea Scrolls (Sun Eater series) by Christopher Ruocchio
ISBN-13: 978-0756413026
📖 Tropes: Fallen Hero • Mythic Space Opera • Philosophical Quest • Divine Conspiracy Grab it on Amazon
Why It’s Compelling: Hadrian Marlowe rises from penniless orphan to galaxy-spanning legend—only to face the horrifying truth that his empire’s founding myths are built on lies. As he unravels cosmic secrets, he becomes both savior and potential destroyer of humanity. Forget sunscreen and just hop starships and dodge supernovae for a cosmic chill.
My Pitch:
Imagine “John Carter of Mars” meets “The Count of Monte Cristo,” but on a grand stage of starships, fallen gods, and the philosophical weight of destiny.
4. The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies
ISBN-13: 978-1399900683
📖 Tropes: Gaslamp Portal Fantasy • Gods as Bureaucrats • Reluctant Heroine • Shadow Revolution
Why It’s Compelling: Kayl is a “Gatekeeper” policing portals between twelve divine realms—until a murder frames her and ignites a rebellion. She must navigate celestial politics, rogue familiars, and hidden magic to clear her name and ignite hope. Tired of your AC dying? Try gate-hopping through frozen divine realms instead.
My Pitch:
Think “Alice Through the Looking Glass” crossed with “The City of Brass,” starring a fiercely pragmatic heroine and a cast of scheming deities.
5. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN-13: 978-0765365279
📖Tropes: Epic War • Destiny •Redemption • Interwoven Destinies
Why It’s Compelling: On the storm-scarred world of Roshar, three unlikely heroes—an enslaved soldier, a disgraced noblewoman, and a scholar with forbidden visions—converge to uncover ancient secrets that could save (or shatter) humanity. Why roast in your backyard when you can let civilization-ending rainstorms cool you down
My Pitch:
This is Wheel of Time on steroids, powered by emotional depth and a magic system to blow your mind.
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See you in the clouds,
Izaic Yorks
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