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Licanius Trilogy

Book · Book series & trilogies · 32 mentions · 2 subreddits · discussed in r/Fantasy, r/suggestmeabook

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Pros

  • What made the Licanius trilogy special was it's experimental but well handled time travel plot line.
  • Licanius by james Islington, one of my fav trilogies
  • I have read and loved Eragon Bound and Broken Songs of Chaos Wheel of Time Licanius Trilogy
  • I'm currently on the last book of the licanius trilogy, it only gets better!
  • Absolutely one of my favorite “everything comes together” type endings I’ve read. Wish anyone struggling with the series would at least get to experience that aspect because it’s so fun lol.

Cons

  • I don’t hate this series, but the criticisms against it are sound. If you removed Davian’s, Wirr’s and Caeden’s dialogue tags you’d have a really hard time telling them apart. These characters don’t really gain their own individuality un...
  • the main characters from the Licanius trilogy could be interesting to me at times, but in the case of each of the main characters, I was only interested in them for a maximum of one volume, and in the remaining two volumes I was indiffer...
  • I read Licanius and thought it was alright, was particularly impressed by the intricacy of the plot.
  • Licanius (which I found kinda mediocre)
  • I enjoy it so far to an extent, but I'm not in love with it. It is crazy to say about a book that size, I know, but the first book felt very thin to me, like I was reading a sketch of the world and the characters

Sentiment

19 positive (59%) · 10 mixed (31%) · 3 negative (9%)

Trust + time weighted score: +48% · raw score 50%

What redditors said (10 of 32)

I don’t hate this series, but the criticisms against it are sound. If you removed Davian’s, Wirr’s and Caeden’s dialogue tags you’d have a really hard time telling them apart. These characters don’t really gain their own individuality until the end of book 2 and really so in book 3. The first half of book 1 we’ve seen a billion times before.
mixed · u/T****1 · r/Fantasy · comment · Feb 18, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
the main characters from the Licanius trilogy could be interesting to me at times, but in the case of each of the main characters, I was only interested in them for a maximum of one volume, and in the remaining two volumes I was indifferent to them.
mixed · u/D****a · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 27, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I read Licanius and thought it was alright, was particularly impressed by the intricacy of the plot.
mixed · u/V****s · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Licanius (which I found kinda mediocre)
mixed · u/K****e · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
What made the Licanius trilogy special was it's experimental but well handled time travel plot line.
positive · u/R****3 · r/Fantasy · Dec 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I enjoy it so far to an extent, but I'm not in love with it. It is crazy to say about a book that size, I know, but the first book felt very thin to me, like I was reading a sketch of the world and the characters
mixed · u/d****s · r/Fantasy · Dec 16, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Licanius by james Islington, one of my fav trilogies
positive · u/c****8 · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 5, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I tried to get into the Licanius trilogy but the protagonist’s perspective felt off
negative · u/H****r · r/Fantasy · comment · Nov 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I have read and loved Eragon Bound and Broken Songs of Chaos Wheel of Time Licanius Trilogy
positive · u/M****9 · r/Fantasy · Nov 7, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Currently slowly making my way through the Licanius trilogy by James Islington... 600+ page books with very complicated world building that take quite the effort to fully understand and follow the story
mixed · u/A****n · r/suggestmeabook · Nov 4, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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