u/Butterfingers2500

Hey everyone! My favourite part about reading is puzzling over why something happened the way it did, and finding out later all my theories have been wrong and the true answer has been foreshadowed all along. Perhaps we can create a list of epic fantasy romances which do this a lot together, I'll even start ;) Please only recommend books which are indeed Epic Fantasy (or High Fantasy at least) and in which the characters behave naturally - Meaning the protagonists don't fall in love with each other within a page (after being enemies, for example) and nobody behaves as though they only do it so that the intended plot works.

So, here is my list:

• {Kindred's Curse by Penn Cole} - Penn is the queen of this kind of foreshadowing. Some of the behaviour of a few of the characters may seem weird in the first book, but it will make sense later on! Beware, though: The protagonist can be quite immature at times.
• {Rook & Rose by M. A. Carrick} - While most of the secrets (not all!) are known to the reader, it is so cool to see the characters puzzle over the secrets and coming to wrong conclusions at first, until they gain more information. It's such a great read, and the book series is complete.
• {Maggie The Undying by Illona Andrews} - I never thought that I would ever enjoy a portal fantasy, but that one is perfect. While definitely a fantasy romance, I didn't find the part after the big >!identity reveal !<particularly romantic, but there are enough coming books to make up for it! The complexity of the world is chef's kiss.
• {Runewitch Saga by Lisette Marshall} - I only enjoy reading books in the first person narration if we indeed get all the important information going through the protagonist's head: The big plot twist in, for instance, The Prison Healer thus ruined the whole book for me, because it should not have been a twist, we should have already been aware of the fact. Here, we have a plot twist we would suspect to already be aware of in the first person narration, but it makes sense that we are not since the protagonist tried to suppress any thought about that part of her past herself, making it an even cooler twist.
• {Verran Isles by Madeline Taylor} - There are a lot of obvious twists, but the ones which are not are so, so good! I can't recommend this book enough!