We do not have a Hugh for you today. It’s been a very challenging week.
My desk broke, and I bought a new one. I remember when standing desks were $3,000. I bought a height adjustable desk for $100. Then, when I finally decided to decompress and fire up Avowed, it helpfully warned me that I needed to update BIOS, because intel 13/14 has issues. I hate updating BIOS. I usually chicken out. This time I did it, and my system fans shot into the overdrive. For some reason the BIOS update set one of them to dc instead of pwm. Ask me how long it took me to figure that out. Way too damn long.
There are last minute Maggie-related things that had to be taken care of, like maps and extras, Sookie’s surgery, and anyway, life. Gordon came into the kitchen today to help me as I was washing up some pans I left soaking overnight and said, “It’s finally Friday. Long week.”
I thought it was Wednesday, BDH. Maybe Thursday.
Hugh’s book is going very slowly. This is going to sound very woo-woo, but as a writer, you kind of sink into your project. You live it, you’re deep in it. I keep bouncing from Hugh 2 for some reason. This book needs more thinking.
So there is no Hugh. But we got this email from Tor.
Just wanted to check in and see how many galleys you would like to order! Can you let us know how many author and agent copies you’d like us to reserve by Friday, 3/28?
Thank you!
Galleys are very basic ARCs. No frills, no covers, just the story in a super-plain binding. This is the very first batch, the first printing, probably pre-copyedit. We do not have an ETA on when the galleys will arrive, but this is your chance to get one just like our Grand Prize winner of the holiday giveaways.
This will be a US only giveaway. The giveaway will run for one week. Winner will be chosen on Friday, March 28th, 2025.
If you were transported into a book, which book would that be? Doesn’t have to be one of ours. Any book you’ve read. To enter, tell us your answer in the comments. One comment per person. You must enter on the blog. Facebook ands other social networks will not count.
Good luck!
Elara and Hugh will earn a great story, so we will try to be p*tient.
Please House Andrews, take care of yourselves.
Anne of Green Gables. And I would buy a really really puffy sleeved dress. Some childhood dreams never die.
Anne of Green Gables
I could survive. It would be entertaining and not too stressful.
Innkeeper – Sweep of the heart. For the wonders of Orro’s cooking, houses that are alive, dancing fish, big cats that weave and philosopher chickens.
Transportal wish: Elfhome! Or maybe Kate Daniels World during Blood Heir? Or maybe Murderbot? Too many to choose from!
I think Sweep of the Heart is the book I would like to be transported into. Who could say no to living in a magic inn?
Can it be a book series? Any inkeeper book would do it form me. Ah, the wonders, the banter… I love it all and would love to be inside it. Specially if I could east something Orro has cooked, or baked. The dream!
Oh this is hard. I’m going to go with T.A. White “Trials of Conviction”.
Not in the US ☹️. Good luck to those who are 🥳
Do take care HA
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn. Set in Colorado (mostly) with a great heroine.
Thank you!
Although I am not trying to flatter – definitely the Innkeeper world. I would love to taste the food and have my room adjusted to my specific desires. I would carry a stack of books and my kindle and just hang out for a week relaxing, and hope that interesting but non lethal guests are staying there at the same time. I totally understand how the week got away from you,it happens to be all the time have a fantastic weekend.
I would want to enter Hidden Legacy! Cellphone work and so does magic, yes please!
oh I’d love to live in the world of Robin Hobbs’ farseer trilogy!
I’d go to the Inn and meet fascinating guests, eat amazing and exotic foods, shop at Baha-char, and introduce my Shih Tzu to Beast!
Oooh so many options, this goes old school, as a kid i imagined myself on Pern so many times!
Trash of the Count’s Family. It is a Korean light novel I am immersed in right now. Magic, Beast people, ancient powers. Would be an interesting ride.
Sweep of the Blade 🗡️
That is a tough one. For classic literature, Ivanhoe. For contemporary, the world of Eve Dallas in the J.D Robb books.
Hard choices. I’ll have to say Victoria Goddard’s “Hands of the Emperor” and all the related titles on multiple worlds. Thank you for the chance at an arc copy!
“The Hands of the Emperor” I lost an entire weekend, a lot of sleep and several meals to it. Initially got it as an e-book. When I treated myself to a hard copy I discovered why – its very thick.
Tamora Pierce’s world of Tortall, specifically I want to be friends with Kel!
Take care of yourselves 💜
Sweep of the heart! I would love to be swept away into a magical world, solve mysteries, and have some romance.
Honestly, it’s going to be Hidden Legacy, one of Kristen Ashley’s Fantasyland series, or TA Whites Aileen or Firebird series. They would all be amazing adventures in new worlds.
I think I have to go with several others on here and say Inkeeper. A week at the Inn with Orro’s cooking and a room perfectly suited to me? Sign me up.
I would love to be in Kate and Curran’s world. As a cool shifter, of course.
The Hobbit! I want to eat and drink and nap and live in a cozy home, with the biggest problem being a dragon far far away.
My childhood dream would be Oz.
ok, I’m not participating because not US
but I really would like to be part of an Inn, from innkeeper, it would be all the cultural awareness of traveling with all the amenities of remaining home.
don’t pressure yourselves so much.
I know it’s a bad word, but we can wait and you deserve to rest and recuperate.
to recharge the batteries.
so after all the mascot mayhem, the Maggie chaos, and everything no one can complaint.
kisses and hugs!
As much as I live the IA universe; the first book to ever transport me was when I was 12 years old.
it was ” Christy” by Barbara Marshall. She set the stage for me to become the avid reader I am today.
I even gave my copy of the book to my daughter when she was that age.
it’s a beautiful book
The Hobbit. Second breakfast and elevenses before lunch, cozy hillside house and Gandalfs fireworks! What more could you ask for😍
I’d go to Melanie Karsak’s Chancellor- all HEAs, cozy small town setting. I’d still read about high stakes, world-saving battles, but I don’t want to live them!
Harry Potter. I’ve wished since I was 13 to be in the world of Harry Potter and not be a muggle. My next choice is Hidden Legacy. I love the powers and subsets of powers and how they evolve. It’s fascinating.
1632 by Eric Flint. But only if I get to be young and healthy in it! It is set in the 30 year wars in Germany and I’m way too old for adventuring. I would need young knees! Almost any of that franchise would be interesting though.
TGIF!! If I could be transported into any book, it would be Clean Sweep. I love the Innkeeper series so much.
A close second would be the Sookie Stackhouse series. Because, I mean, Eric Northman…🥰
The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland
I would live in Hidden Legacy and vacation at the Inn!
A Wrinkle in Time
Any of the Innkeeper books
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Clean Sweep, and I’d like to stay through all the books. I LOVE the uniqueness of the B&B in that world!
Dragons of Pern. The whole series captivated me from the very first book.
Sweep of the Blade.
Innkeeper definitely! Love the series and all the books. Would love to show up for Treaty Stay and maybe pop over to Baha-char for some shopping — especially fibre row…
And the Treaty Stay Banquet of course!
Yummm !
As a child I desperately wanted to go to Narnia. I would sit, clutching my book, and wish as hard as I could. It was years before I realized what Narnia represented- I just knew I wanted to be in that magical place with talking lions, fauns and the magical.
Time Enough for Love by RA Heinlein
It would have to be the Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip. Because the nearness of magic within the ordinary, where the perception of what is and what could be change things so fundamentally, that it simply takes my breath away. That is how magic should work, a subtle thread of Other among the ordinary until a startling new tapestry is revealed that changes everything you know.
Sweep of the Blade would be my choice to drop into.
The Innkeeper series. I love opening the screen door to Gertrude Hunt and seeing the picture of Dina’s parents, opening the door to Baha-char and feeling the heat, and opening the portal to Kolinda and watching the sea.
I think i would like to go meet Dina and Shawn in Gertrude Hunt. I would love to meet Orro, and altho she’s kinda scary I would love to meet Caldenia and pick her marvelous brain. Bonus points if I could meet any of the others, or get to see Baha Char with my own eyes! That would be AMAZING. I would visit Kate’s world, (shes my ultimate fav heroine) but it doesn’t have hysterical hedgehogs, ripper cushions, and baha char.
Magic Bites, I really want to be as bad ass as Kate
I’d want to live in Charles de Lint’s Newford. Magic is all around, it’s just that most people aren’t paying attention and miss it.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar because I would like some strawberries and a cupcake right now.
Today I’d like to be in the Innkeeper series. Some place relaxed with excellent food and my perfect comfort, interesting people to talk to (or not!) and nothing can harm me. I’d probably sit around, eat some of Orro’s cookies, and read a book.
There are so many, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, T. A. White’s Firebird Chronicles, Kate’s world. But the only one I’d probably be able to survive in would be Innkeeper series. I’d love to be an Innkeeper!
Woohoo!
I’d choose Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik – it would be insanely awesome to be a badass flying around in my spaceship saving the world.
If I had to be transported into a book, it would be Hogwarts school of magic and wizardry – minus the dark wizards! I’d love to be a part of the whimsy and exploration and scientific part of the school. 🧙♀️
Oh my gosh what a week! Hope you get some relaxation in.
My immediate thought was the innkeeper series. I love the idea of a sentient house and traveling throughout the galaxy. I would love to befriend the characters. Seems sort of perfect.
The Innkeeper world. Gertrude Hunt. I want to be a permanent guest like Caldenia. I am obsessed with this series. Most respectfully, Kimberly
Judy mays celestial seasons series. sorry but I’m old and id get killed in yours lol. now if I could pick my age and ability the yeah any of yours would be fantastic.
Hope all things improve for you soon.
One of the books I love that really drew me in was Grace Draven’s Radiance.
Thanks for the opportunity.
I would love to be in the Murderbot world- fighting for the humans under the thumb of the Corporations.
I think I transport myself into each book I read as I read them. It’s why I love the different worlds so much! Honestly if I were going to be transported into a world, I’d want to transport into Nalini Singh’s Pay/Changeling world. Maybe be something different than human. I love your world, but im a wuss and would end up ☠️
If I could be transported into a book, I would choose I Dare (Liaden Universe series) by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. It has spaceships, sentient alien turtles that live thousands of years, dramliza (wizards), and true love. The series has epic battles and fighting evil. I love the family moments and the world building.
Definitely take care of yourselves! I hope you have a relaxing, chill weekend.
As for the giveaway, you guys rock. I scrolled through my Kindle to see if anything jumped out at me, and I just kept gravitating back to Sweep of the Heart. You don’t have to know magic or be magic to be part of the magic in the world, which is super freaking cool. Add that to everything the Inn has to offer and I can’t think of a better book in which to live out my life!
I want to be transported into Amy Bartol’s Kricket series strictly for the service robots that cook, clean, do dishes, apply makeup, create clothes, etc. I mean, the MMC seemed hot and all, but it’s the thought of having all the household drudgery taken care of that really gets me excited. 😆
I would love to be in the Kate Daniel’s world, specifically during the Wilmington years book 2 so I could explore all of the weird and wonderful things they are uncovering that the fairy hoarded. The people, the scenery, the ancient animals, all are fascinating to me. Oh, I would definitely want Luther there, his enthusiasm makes me happy.
I love your books, but I’m not sure I’d survive your worlds. Lol. If I could jump into any book, it would be T.A. White’s Firebird series. I may not be Kira, but I could definitely be a good supporting character. 😀
I would like to be transported to Vivian Shaw’s Dr. Greta Helsing series. Specifically book 3 Grave Importance. I really wanna see what a mummy spa looks like. Like. That sounds so chill. I mean apart from the ongoing apocalypse caused by destroying stolen grave goods.
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneger. I could not put that book dawn. It stayed with me for quite awhile after I finished it.
Anne Bishop the “Others” series. Love, love ❤️ love ❤️
Innkeeper world would be my pick.
Innkeeper I think.
An Innkeeper book. No worries about storage, rearrange rooms easily for different purposes. Cool beings to meet, learn about all sorts of cultures.
I love this because recently I’ve been resenting how tech-mandatory our world has become.
So KD world, easy. Magic Rises and I’d stay back in Georgia, the country, and live in the mountains.
The Hobbit so I could hang out in the shire. I would go to birthday parties, eat good food, drink mead, and dance with hobbits.
Pride and Prejudice as long as I could have Elizabeth’s freedom 😅
If I could fight I would going into the Kate Daniels world in a heart beat as a human with magic and sword fighting skills. Sweep of the heart as a vampire warrior
I’m sorry you’re having a stressful time. Take care of yourself. For me, I would like to be transported into the world of “Soulhome”, because I love their magic crafting system and love imagining what I would build with it.
The Hobbit
Jump into the Innkeeper books. Love the characters and how real world is right beside other worlds and beings. What an adventure!
There are so many to choose. My main criteria is there is indoor plumbing. The one book/series, I’ve read and listened too the most (exception…The Exorcist) is the Innkeeper Series. So I’ll go with it.
I’m with you on the problem of tracking days. I was laid off a couple of weeks ago, so I’m spending a few weeks cleaning up the house and donating stuff so I can sell and move closer to my family. I’m having a hard time keeping track of the days, which makes it hard to get the garbage out to the curb on the correct days.
As for which book, any of the Innkeeper books. The ability to walk through any of Gertrude Hunt’s doors to get to another planet sounds very inviting.
Oh wow. Hit us with the tough questions! I think it would have to be Sabriel by Garth Nix. I love the Kate Daniels series, but Sabriel is a first and lasting love. Thank you for such a wonderful chance on my birthday!!
If I were to be transported to a book world… I can’t pick just one.
– Kate Daniels
– Psy Changling by Nalini Singh
Or
– Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs
(With special abilities, of course).
I think Innkeeper. Mostly our same Earth but magic and high technology and alien worlds.
With the exception of your books, and a very few other fantasy authors (you’ve set the bar awfully high in that arena 😉), I read mysteries. So my world to be transported to would be the cozy world of the junior barristers (aka the “Nursery”) in Sarah Caudwell’s far-too-short four-book Hilary Tamar series. Which is a love-it-or-hate-it series brimming with dry British humor (or humour) and classical allusions.
Even though I would 1000% die I would love to be transported to the Kate Daniels universe.
biting the sun by tanith lee
Discworld! I love a crazily built world.
Here’s the thing.
Bad things are always happening in books and fictional worlds. I like high stakes in my fantasy novels. And there have been times when I would love to go live in one of those worlds for a while. But right now, the real world is feeling extra high-stakes and going to live in an even more intense fantasy realm sounds terrible.
So here’s my alternatives (disclaimer: I am a biologist by education):
Merlin Tuttle’s book “The Secret Lives of Bats”
I would absolutely love to travel the world studying and photographing obscure bat species. Bats are adorable, and Dr. Tuttle seems like an interesting character.
I will keep the fantasy worlds for reading about, thanks.
Pern! I’d constantly daydream about looking up at the sudden cloud cover that turned out being a dragon and rider out looking for riders for golden dragons and they found me!
Oooh!! Maggie maps!! 🗺️
You, Gordon, and Sookie all need extra naps and down time!! Ice tea and treats! Here’s to a plain cheese weekend – that’s what I wish all my first responder and medical friends – never say the “q” word out loud.
Book world I’d like to be in – The Secret Garden. Mary, Colin, Martha, Dickon, and all the animals!! 📚
Written in Red
The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo was a book i read on a lark at the library. Its not a perfect book, But i really liked it. It was the first time book of an author who was killed because he was a Auxiliary Police officer for New York. Because he was more or less a volunteer, the force did not provide him with any body armor or weapons and he was killed trying to stop a robbery. The book is about a vet who’s family is cursed with lycanthropy and what happens when he crosses paths with a serial killer. The main character is well written, who you like even though you definitely would not if you met him in real life. I always wished someone would have picked it up as a movie or tv series in Hollywood. There was so much potential that the world was robbed of by the death of the author.
The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey or perhaps one of her Elemental Masters book
I’d say all of the fantasy books I read! : ) but if I had to pick one it would be my most recent read “Dungeon Crawler Carl”. Yes, I feel ridiculous saying that lol! Being immersed in a game would be equally terrifing and thrilling and with shows like Squid Games not to mention all the sci-fi stuff at the moment it doesnt seem all that outlandish.
Recently have been so engrossed with the dungeon crawler Carl series that I started having my dreams occasionally narrated by the AI. Sometimes in creepy mode. The audiobooks are particularly top notch.
Not in the US but my first thought was The Innkeeper universe and when they have the chat with Kate, kurran, Arabella, Catalina and the rest. And Maggie pops by❤️
Hmmm… I think the world of Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede would be a fun one. 🙂
The Witch Doctor by Christopher Stasheff.
The alternate universe with magic being real aa well as unexpected friends that aren’t always human, stayed in my head long after I finished reading it. And the chance to meet your guardian angel and get answers to questions you’ve always wondered about would be phenomenal.
I would love to be an Innkeeper! Thank you for the wonderful worlds you guys have given to us!
A Wrinkle in Time. I wanted to go on that journey with Meg, Charles and Calvin.
For me, I think it would have to be Clean Sweep. The magic of an inn that is rooted across the galaxy, just an open door away from all the wonders of Baha-Char. The rich texture of characters and loyalties, friends and foes. One of my very favorites, and possibly I might survive if transported there!
Moonheart by Charles de Lint. It was my 1st experince with urban fantasy and remains my all-time favorite read.
Thanks, HA, for all that you do for us.
Proud, p*tient member of the BDH here!
Beware of Chicken! by Casual Farmer
I want to see those waterfalls. ❤️
I really want to say Inn keeper series but I a mere human wouldn’t know about the inns and that’s why I would want to go there so I will say it’s between a Hidden Legacy book or a Psy/ Changeling book by Nalini Singh both worlds are well built, people are in the know, and I’m not likely to die quickly as I would if I were to be put in a fantasy book with dragons or Kate Daniels world with all the nasty in it lol. I may be over thinking things but I keep thinking of the movie a kid in king Arthur court and by transported there it doesn’t mean I’m magically equipped to fit into the world and with my luck I would be seen as a crazy begger or killed by some animal/monster just walking around lol.
Oh my gosh, Innkeeper series! I would love to stay at Dina’s Inn, play with Beast and Olasard, eat Orro’s cooking, and also visit Daesyn to see the gorgeous gardens.
Definitely the innkeeper books if nothing else.just for the food!
Sweep of the Blade.
With the hope of being accepted by House Krahr in some capacity! As a biologist maybe I could be friends with the entomologist who married someone’s vampire cousin.
The Georgette Heyer regency books.
I would like to enter the Psy-Changeling world, it has always been an inspiration for me in so many ways. It takes your imagination and way of thinking to another dimension.
I have read almost all of House Andrews’ books and free fictions multiple times, they are all my favorites. I’m a great fan of Ilona Andrews, but I wanted to give a honest answer. So,for me it would be “Psy-Changeling” by Nalini Singh.
For me it would be the Innkeeper books. Cant wait to taste the food.
Magical Midlife Madness (Leveling Up Book 1) and the series. I can relate to most things the heroine is going through especially the female starting over theme and it has magic, magical creatures and it’s laugh out loud funny at times. By K.F. Breene
Clean Sweep, I want a chance to have magic.
It would definitely be Night Huntress Universe!! Bones is just my favorite Book Boyfriend lololol.
“Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss
Your books almost always transport me into them. However, I thought I’d share the first book that I remember really transporting me into the world. Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton. I know she’s divisive, and I get it. This is not to promote her work. It’s just to say I was sucked in & had a hangover when it spit me back out.
I don’t know why I’m so surprised with so many wanting to be in the Innkeeper series. Definitely my pick as well. I’m an Innkeeper at heart. Would want to be there during Treaty Stay… and go with Dina to Baha char. Sit in the orchard on the bench by the pond and know that any minute something new and exciting could land at my doorstep.
There isn’t a book, but a series. I would love to be transported into Innkeeper or Mercedes Lackeys Valdemar series.
Many many years ago I was transported into Andre Norton’s Witch World series, specifically the first story (by the same name) in which Simon Tregarth, fleeing persecution and death, is transported into a world of magic. That was the beginning of my love for science fiction and fantasy which continues to this day. Your question brings back wonderful memories!
Please take care of yourselves; Hughday can wait as long as necessary.
Hm, what book is such a hard question. I love to visit so many of them – Pern and be a dragon rider, HP and have some magic, Kate Daniel’s world and be a cool cat shifter or maybe Hidden Legacy with some significant magic (not prime, they seem too risky with warfare) or read a good book at Gertrude Hunt eating good food. Either way, all the worlds are worth a visit!
If I was transported into a book I would want it to be Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede.
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
magic and bedouins and a slightly crazy wizard in the mountains!
Honestly, most of the things I like to read I would be afraid to be transported into. But Innkeeper, I think would be fun and mostly survivable.
Hidden Legacy, I want to be there for the ferret heist!
The Blue Sword
Innkeeper Series… I can go experience some excitement and magic or come home to cozy normality. Hope you all get some time to recover from the insanity of this past week! ❤️
david weber
Honor Harrington # in Exil
like to have better medical Service and the Contagrav Belt lol…. for my fat ass and i love The cats
I would honestly love to be part of the Innkeeper world!! Or Elizabeth Hunter’s Elemental series.
Ooo, that’s a tough one! I do think I’d like to be transported into Burn for Me. There’s something so special about the Hidden Legacy series for me, the “normalcy” mixed with that little (a lot!) bit of extra magic.
…but I would only like to see the explosions/super flamethrower men from a distance, thank you very much.
Right now I would like to be transported to the after life from, For Whom the Belle Tolls. I would love to meet everyone from the Hellp Desk!
I’d be transported to innkeeper! I’d LOVE to have an inn of my own – able to see the universe without ever leaving home? Sign me up! But even just visiting an inn would be an incredible experience.
This is an odd choice, but hear me out. I’d want to be transported to the Stargate world because even if I was somehow dropped inside one of the bases, they’ve dealt with weird things enough that I wouldn’t get in trouble. Certainly wouldn’t get killed.
AND it’s almost exactly like our world so the chances the authors and books would be the same is high so I wouldn’t miss any of my favorite authors!
Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsinger. The Harper Hall trilogy was my jam growing up. Musicians and dragons (well fire lizards…)?! Yes please!
All Innkeeper books pull me in, to the point that I often lose track of time. (Much to my children’s chagrin.) However, Sweep of the Blade particularly sucks me in and once I start it, I know I won’t put it down.
… first response is KD but then yeah I don’t think I would be very safe. But I am going with it cause none of the worlds I read would be safe.
The Innkeeper Series. I did not want to read it and my sister Claire nagged me relentlessly. She keep says….”you are going to love it” She was right (as always) I have reread it numerous times. I am rereading Sweep of the Heart tight now as I wait impatiently for Maggie.
Imkepper Chronicals.
Magic Bites, the “Here Kitty Kitty” just grabs me every time I read it or hear it. I can feel the eyes watching me from the dark.
I’m sorry, but telepathic dragons and even a regular person might get a fire-lizard in Ann McCaffrey’s Dragon Rider book(s) captivated me from my finding Dragon Singer at the home of a divorced lady’s house(they had me switch to the house that had the boys) when I sat with the 2, until parent got home, around 1980. Having a serious St. Francis impulse(befriending animals), a lifelong companion, that’d outlive just about any pet, resounds in my heart strongly. She’s gone, her adult children aren’t producing in that ‘world’, and since overcoming dyslexia in 2nd grade, a voracious reader needs to keep finding more great authors(thanks for being!) and to keep getting exposed to ideas/information. Thanks for offering the chance to receive your ARC!
Oh my goodness, only into one book? that is like picking a favorite kid, or favorite chocolate dessert….. hmmm, at this second my choice would be into the Hidden Legacy world so I had a chance of speaking with animals as a gift.
I would want to go to PERN. During the time of The White Dragon.
to be honest, even without restrictions I think I’d still want to isekai into the Innkeeper Series
Off the top of my head, the Innkeeper series.
So many possibilities…
Oh Wow!
The movies have done the job for LOTR and Dune, so I’m good to go there.
Right now, I think it would be Fated Blades. Who wouldn’t want to live in a beautiful, technologically advanced world where you can dance with the perfect partner and kick butt?
Innkeeper – During the times I really need to decompress from the world at large, this is the series I always dive back into for comfort.
As much as I love the Innkeeper’s world, Harry Potter, Kate Daniels, and Pern, I think I’d prefer to live in a place that always makes me laugh. I’d choose Discworld.
I’d pick Constituent Service by John Scalzi… I could have alien neighbors and reliable bus service (barring chicken-related incidents).
I would want to go into a light, cozy book. The most recent I read was The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.
Oh my gosh, I would love to be in One Fell Sweep, the Innkeeper’s third novel. Dina and Sean and the gang would be so much fun to visit.
Just ordered Sanc they Hopefully they’re already saying that significant technique on my Kindle the other day so that I could finally finish that story. So look forward to everything the Andrew’s write.
Michelle Diener’s Class 5 Series! and also Kinsmen! Been on a space theme vibe lately.
Innkeeper
I’d go to the mundane side of the Edge and never realize it.
Janet Kagan’s Mirabile. It’s a wonderful look at what biology can do.
I really would like to stay at the inn. I think an intergalactic marriage contest would be fun to watch. Sweep of the Heart
Oh gosh, now that I’ve dived head first into isekai stories, I’ve pondered this question many, many (many!!) times. Books are like family, so hard to choose favorites!
So, as a compromise, I’d say the Innkeeper series by HA and the Red Winter trilogy by Annette Marie currently top my list. Magic! Romance! Danger! Squeeful HEAs!
As always, thank you so much for all the joy you bring to my life with your stories. I wish you and yours all the beautiful things in this (and any other) world.
Absolutely Hidden Legacy. I would have magic of course. In fact, it would be similar to Cornelius in that it comes from fairy tales. I would be Mother Nature. That way I would have All the powers of nature (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water).
I would literally cry with joy if I got to read an early galley. The early chapters of Maggie have haunted me for over a year.
If I were transported into a book, it would be the Psy-Changeling series by Nalini Singh. Assuming I could choose my circumstances, I’d join the SnowDancer wolf pack and never leave den territory – far, far away from any Psy enemy or war. 😂 I’m no Maggie — as a helpless human caught between factions, I’d be the first one to die accidentally in a telekinetic brawl or by leopard claws. I don’t want to be transported to a secondary fantasy world — learning new customs and social expectations would be difficult. But I could handle an AU version of Earth with similar geography and pop culture.
My IA answer would definitely be Innkeeper but I don’t know if Dina would want me as a permanent guest. Anything outside an inn seems dangerous and I have self-preservation instincts, lol. Maybe one of the inns has a position related to cataloging books or something scholarly.
Everyone deserves a Mental Break day. Please take care of yourselves!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – need a sugar rush.
Drat my post didn’t post! I am an avid (obsessive..) reader. I would pick InnKeeper. I adore the thought of living in a sentient, loving Inn. One that access to the universe where you can meet different species and have adventures, but after the adventures are over, you have a safe nest to come home to. But mainly PHILOSOPHICAL SPACE CHICKENS! Seriously, how great is that?!!! lol
I think I would like Hidden Legacy world. Being in TX it isnt too different but I would love magical powers 😍
Thanks for the chance!
Oz or Hogwarts. My standing gift request from the age of seven was a new Oz book, which I read within a day and then reread many times.
I would love a job at Gertrude Hunt.
For me the Hunger Games book totally transported me, I started the book and after an hour I cancelled my plans for the rest of the day and read it straight through.
I would love to be in Tamora Pierces Tortal Realm. I’ve loved the books since I was a child!
Wild Magic (The Immortals #1) was always a particular favorite.
The Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead. Alchemy, Vampires, Magic, Secret Society
Gertrude Hunt would be tough to beat for a vacation, but to live in I think I’d like to work at St Mary’s from the “Chronicles of St Mary’s” by Jodi Taylor. Pranks and shenanigans with time travel (I mean investigating historical events in real time) thrown in? Sign me up.
Burn for Me. I reread that one so often. I love Nevada, and her challenges with her nutty family (that I wish I had) and Rogan.
The innkeeper
I think Terry Pratchett’s Discworld would be pretty nice!
The Belgariad series by David Eddings or The Kurtherian Gambit series by Michael Anderle.
Shadowfever
Thank you for the giveaway, you guys are so good to the Horde.
I would choose to be transported into Hidden Legacy. A world that is recognizably similar to ours, but with magic that is relatively well understood.
If I could be transported into a book it would be Caddie Woodlawn. My mum used to read it to us in the evening before we went to sleep and the book had been given to us by my Grandmother. Lots of lovely memories attached to that book
With the situation in Western NC since Helene, I sometimes wonder if I’m not living in Kate’s world. Would only be mildly surprised if there was an actual volcanic event in Asheville.
Alas, I am no badass Kate and prefer reading about her adventures in the gritty South rather than living it. I’d be blissfully happy, however, to have my own room at the Inn where I can pet cute animals, defy physics, never have to do housework, and snack on Orro’s cooking.
I would like to be in Seanan McGuire’s InCryptid series because it would be fun to hang out and explore the Cryptid world.
Clan of the cave bear – by Jean Auel- I felt like I was there in the cave with them – amazing story!!
Most definitely the Hidden Legacy series!
Whooooop! Of course we want to read it, copy edit be damned!!
One Fell Sweep! I utterly love the Innkeeper series, which is not to say I don’t re-read the others just as often heh. But it’s a world that captures my fancy.
And may I say, I’m sorry for your awful week and especially that you’re having problems with Hugh2. So far it’s been delightful watching the plot lines start to unfold. Hang in there!
I would love to be in the world of David Weber’s Oath of Swords. If transported there as a human, I’d want to join the War Maids. But if I could land there as a hradani, that would be awesome. And if I ended up as a Wind Rider, that would be best of all.
Kate Daniel’s world (only if I have enough magic to not immediately die) would be the dream
It’s so hard to decide which book, so many favorites.
Today it would be Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsinger series.
I loved it from the first page, the idea of being able to sing like that and make music….I’d give a lot to have the natural talent to do it well. Sadly, I can’t carry a tune in a bucket and am musically inept.
My first thought was “of course it HAS to be Kate!!” But I realized when you really think about it Kate’s world is scary as H*ll!!! I chose Innkeeper, because the Galaxy awaits!!!!!
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, for sure. I’ve always wanted to secretly live in a museum 😆
Innkeeper!!!! Definitely. I would love to visit Baha-char.
Hmm, the Innkeeper world would be my choice. Whatever I choose would have to have strong women and a chance for me to survive with minimal skills.
I commiserate with your desk problems. I finally went with a huge (it expands) sewing cabinet with two extra, home made, shelf units to stand above the surface.
As far as books to be transported to, there are so many. Innkeeper for sure, “Odd Billy Todd” if I could live at The Farms by N.C. Reed, “Blood of the Earth” series by Faith Hunter, “Bob’s Saucer Repair” series by Jerry Boyd and “April” series by Mackey Chandler (Life Extension Therapy would be wonderful for my old bones). There are so many others.
Hidden Legacy.
HIdden Legacy. Not too many mass casualty events and the promise of magic
Innkeeper as a series. I love the idea of being able to accommodate friends and found family as they need.
I would choose “Sweep with Me.” A treaty stay sounds awesome right now.
If I were going to pick an Ilona Andrews book, it would definitely be the Innkeeper series. Outside of them, I think I might try for T Kingfisher’s Paladin of Steel series. Or possibly Bujold’s Vorkosigan books.
I have to go with the Innkeeper series – food, guests, safety and, of course, the food! Did I mention the food.
This would be awesome!!!!!
Add me to the Sweep of the Heart fans. I feel very at home in the Innkeeper books. I think I vibe with aliens.
Remember to breathe, and take care of you and yours.
His Dark Materials / Golden Compass series by Philip Pullman. I love the idea of animal familiars and the steampunk vibe. And the animals match a person’s personality! They get “set” when a person becomes an adult. There is a woman with a snow leopard as her familiar. I dressed as her for Halloween one year and carried a stuffed leopard. I spent ages as a kid deciding what my familiar would be. Great world-building, particularly so for a children’s book!
The Highland Witch by Susan Fletcher
I hear you about having a crazy week. I’m having one too. I got a pre-surgery test result back I wasn’t expecting. Depending on consult results, I might not be able to do the knee surgery right now.
The book/world I would want to be transported to is Jayne Castle’s (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) Harmony. In particular the book Obsidian Prey. There’s a dust bunny named Vincent who paints. I want to buy a painting. However, I might lose out to Cruz Sweetwater. He bought all of Vincent’s work.
I love all the dust bunnies in this series. They help their people when the humans need them. The saying is “by the time you see the teeth, it’s too late.” 😁😎
I would love to be in the hidden legacy world and have a super power but with my luck I would show up in the middle of some epic fight and get killed immediately lol
An interesting question because as a member of the Book Devouring Hoard, your stories make me feel like the main character.
So would I want to be a kick ass Queen of Shinar ( that’s always got someone trying to kill her), a private detective who can hear when a lie is told (that sometimes has someone trying to kill her), or an Inn Keeper who rarely has her life threatened or some other book’s character I can’t recall.
I choose Dina in Sweep in Peace – for the food and easy house modifications.
Thank you.
Definitely the Innkeeper series- probably Sweep of the Heart. Watching the spousal selection and all of Caldenia’s machinations would be awesome
The House That Walked Between Worlds. I would love to travel but still be able to sleep in my own bed every night.
Answer for giveaway: the world of the goblin emperor! Love the worldbuilding (and it’s not in the middle of an apocalypse, which feels refreshing right now)
Glad you’re taking a break, y’all have worked hard and deserve it!!
Oh man if I had to be transported into a book I would pick Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce. She was the author who got me into fantasy and her medieval type magical world seems like one that I might not immediately perish in!
I’d like to be transported into the His Dark Materials novels, specifically the world where you have your own animal familiar/daemon!
Any “world”? Torn between your Hidden Legacy series & Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series.
Any of the Innkeeper Chronicles. I like to escape to the Inn and reaquaint with the visitors, permenant inn people, and of course the staff.
I would want to be in Rivers of London. I think it would be interesting to be a magic police officer in modern times and trying to figure all that out.
Melanie Rawn’s “Dragon Prince” series, but only if I get to be a sunrunner.
I would love to be in the Innkeeper. I think meeting the guest and Orro would be great fun.
Book world I would love to be transported into would be One Piece (manga are books too!). It would be cool to have a devil fruit and see the craziness of the pirates and marines. Innkeeper books would be a close second though, with the intergalactic shenanigans!
It would be scary due to the war but I would still pick Wen Spencer’s Tinker/Elfhome world.
As a young pre-teen I would choose A Wrinkle in Time.
Now as an adult I would choose any of the Innkeeper books or any of the Psy-Changling books by Nalini Singh.
What book to be transported into, that is a difficult question.
Maybe something like Dahlia in Bloom.
I would love to be in the Innkeeper universe. So many wonderful people and places to explore!
Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey
Reading this book in the 1970’s launched my great love of strong women protagonists in fantasy and science fiction.
Right now, Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series.
I think I would love being transported into the Hidden Legacy world. I’m just fascinated by the family bloodlines, the politics, and the general drama of the world. It would be so much fun! And dangerous. But fun!
Anne of Green Gables. I read the entire series through my 4th and 5th grade years, and those books were so formative to my life. It was the first time I remember deeply relating to a character in a book, and I love how those books balanced the painful ups and downs and losses throughout life, with hope and beauty.
It doesn’t hurt either that that part of Canada is gorgeous. And I’ve always wanted to try both raspberry cordial and currant wine, and never have #goals
I would love to be transported into Nalini Singhs Guild Hunter world! Just to get glimpses of Bluebell 💜
When I was younger it would have been the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold – I was ready to take on Barrayar and anything that world had to offer. Now though, with the way life has been the last few years, give me Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery – Prince Edward Island, the early 1900’s, a slower world where the little things are so important. Such a comfortable place to be!
I could use some utopian style peace vibes and would jump into “A psalm for the wild-built” by Becky Chambers
when I was young and adventurous I would have chosen differently, but as a tired adult I’d be transported to Sweep of the Heart. Dina would take my appearance in stride, and I’d love to travel the galaxy.
Hmmm, trying to think beyond Innkeeper and the Edge here as those worlds are both top contenders.
I would love to be transported to the world of Dragonriders of Pern!
I would like to be on the Magiford world created by KM Shea. Probably working for one of the brownies in a bakery.
As much as I love everything you write, if I were to be transported into one book world, it would have to be Anne McCaffery’s Pern for a chance to impress a dragon.
Nalini Singh’s Phy-Changeling novels.
Sorry life keeps jumping around on you. BDH may be a little on the pushy side, but we want your well being more than a Hugh piece.
My book I sunk into: Lions of Al-Rassan. By: Guy Gavriel Kay. Deep and fascinating. Could have been an historical piece, but was pure fantasy. It let me understand for the first time what Agape love between soldiers who fought and died together really means. Powerful. Strong female characters, and the central plot was amazing. I could go on and on, but I won’t. It’s not a book you can put down. All his books are good, but this one keeps popping up in my memory.
Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond series – the last one, Checkmate.
Or else I would like to be in the world of Martha Wells’ Raksura series.
I’m feeling stabby these days so I’d like to enter Dick Francis’ world of Steeplechase — so I’d get to be surrounded by horses and solve mysteries where the good guys ultimately triumph.
I would like to be teleported into Blood Heir only because there isn’t a sequel to it yet. I love watching how the relationship between Julie and Derek develops throughout the book.
Sharon Shinn’s 12 Houses/Gillengaria for many nostalgic reasons, and slo because it’s interesting but I also think I could survive 😅
Ohhh it may not have to be one of yours, but I’m pretty sure it’s the innkeeper world anyway! Can you imagine actually seeing an inn in action!? Amazing.
I would like to be sent to the innkeeper world but only if I could be a someone who is in the know and has access to the inns and other worlds. I love magic and paranormal but going to one of these book worlds would only be fun if I could have magic, be a shifter, or at least know about the magic/paranormal world.
Innkeeper, definitely. But only if I could be a pampered guest, and didn’t have to worry about saving species or defending against attacking aliens.
Harry Potter; I’m a teacher and I’d love teaching at Hogwarts!
I’d like to visit the Innkeeper world (don’t know that I want to stay there . . .) at least, if I get to stay at an inn. At this time, I’m mostly interested in cozy worlds!
Given my taste in reading, most of the worlds I love reading about would immediately kill me or be so uncomfortable for my spoiled by modernity self that I wouldn’t get to enjoy my adventure. The Dragonriders of Pern was the first series that captured my imagination as a kid so that’s my pick (even though the lack of plumbing is sus).
I would love to be transported to the Innkeeper series! I’m so curious on how Dina would create my perfect room. 🙂
Wen Spencer’s Tinker series as long as I could live in Pittsburgh and be transported to Elfhome with it. A world with technology, magic and intelligent dragons ❤️
Hope House Andrews catches a break and no more 3-4 AM wake ups 🤞🏼
Omg!!
I would love to be in the world of “Burn for Me”. It is our world with a twist, everything is familiar but not.
I would want to be transported into Kate Daniel’s’ world because I am any to see that mash of magic and tech
“Only in the US”. Ha! I am Canadian. (We just can’t seem to win, eh?. Sigh)
But I can be included in the World Picking, so that’s good. Just hard to choose bc depend on my mood.
Innkeeper, of course.
Miles Vorkosigan universe.
Misty of Chincoteague world, when I was a kid. (I wanted to swim across with a saved pony, even tho I can’t swim!)
I also love all the Vanessa Nelson worlds.
Sigh, again.
Totally agree we with Chronicles of St Mary’s by Jodi Taylor!
the chance to experience so Manny different geographical and political times in history, and be back in time for tea. Love the idea.
“Alphabet of Thorn” by Patricia McKillip. Her writing style always draws me in, plus it’s set in a library!
I would love to be part of Sweep of the Heart (NOT as a contestant, but how exciting and awesome would it be to witness it in person?!!)
Ideally, I would be a silent and invisible observer, seeing not only all of the shenanigans going on during the competition, but also everything that happens outside of the spotlight!
Oh wait….I’ve already been given the golden ticket to losing myself in Sweep of the Heart (and every other book HA has written!) every time I read them! Many many many many thanks!!!! 💕💕💕
P.S. I hope the weekend is very happy and relaxing for HA, ModR, and the BDH! 😁
If I could be transported into any fictional world, it’d have to be the world of the Others (Anne Bishop). Yes, there are things which could and would like to eat me, but as long as I’m not a total jerk, I think I’d be okay.
The Healer’s Way series. Authors are Oleg Sapphire and Alexey Kovtunov. Rereading. I love this series! Next book April 11. I’d love to have magic to help the good guys and defeat the asshats. I’d also love to have a Healer as my friend/compatriot.
An inn – my favourite moment in most Sff are the alien bar scenes and the inn give off that feeling but 1000x better because you could actually get to know the aliens. Plus the ability to constantly modify my surroundings would be so cool!
Innkeeper is still my all time favourite world!
I’m not in the US, but I would want to go to Mecedes Lackey’s world of Valdemar either as a Herald with a Companion or as one of the Shin’a’in with a warhorse.
If I were to be transferred into a book’s universe, my first thought is James Schmitz Telzey Amberdon universe.
I am sure that if I thought about it, I would come up with others, but that is what I thought of first. High tech, not dystopia, lots of interesting things.
I’m so sorry life is feeling like 10 lbs of mud on each shoe while you’re slogging uphill. BIOS updates are absolutely a pain. Deep breaths, it will get better.
For the transport question, Oh dear Lord, that’s a toughie. I would have to go with Sweep of the Heart ( come on, who wouldn’t want to hang out and eat Orro’s cooking), but Murderbot (Martha Wells) or Lake Silence (Anne Bishop) would run a close second.
As a kid I would have given anything to be transported to Tortall (Tamora Pierce). Honestly probably still would go especially to see how things have changed since she mostly stopped writing.
REST, not “test”. Bc who wants to be back in a place that needs Tests!!!
oMG!!!! I’d love to be transported into Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series. Thank you so much for the giveaway 💗
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones. It’s one of the few fantasies I might actually be able to survive, lol.
Star Trek, The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane
Hidden Legacy, if I had big magic powers.
HA series – definitely Innkeeper. I’d like to be Dina and Sean’s “out into the world” errand runner/loyal retainer and all-around indispensable person, so that I get to see the magic happening. Non HA series? Bujold’s Chalion series and the world of the Five Gods. Very much enjoying the Hugh Days. And I think it would be fascinating to read a galley and compare to the final.
For your books it would be Sweep of the Heart – I’m here for the drama, the food, and not being in any genuine danger because the innkeepers are so powerful. Otherwise I think it would be fun to hop into an Agatha Christie Poirot or Marple novel (after the murder has happened so it won’t be me) just so I can act very suspiciously and be included in the grand explanation at the end.
Anne Bishop’s The Others. I like the values in those books.
I would like to go to the world in The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. Live with the archers with the big cats or Lethe.
Probably the Innkeeper world. The universe at your fingertips and a bedroom to mold to your whims!
I was thinking that I personally would never survive in any of the books which I love, but then I decided that the Innkeeper chronicles is the way to go.
Because philosophical space chickens.
Having just finished a reread of Magic Claims last night, I’m going with Kate Daniels.
And modern hygiene LOL
Soooo many stories… but the first one that popped into my head was The Talisman by Stephen King. It stayed with me for a long time, and is always there, ready to pop out whenever something random brings it to the front.
Thank you House Andrews for sharing your stories with us. As all of the BDH does, I happily gobble them up as soon as they’re available. Peace & Blessings!
As a kid, I would have loved to be in the world of Oz (the L Frank Baum books), but after reading fantasy books as an adult. I would love to visit the world of Myrillia (where Gods live alongside humans) or even the world of the Drenai (to be able meet Druss & Seiben).
I don’t have any urges to be magical, so that really changes my answer! I think October Daye’s world by Seanan McGuire is my favorite of all time.
I would love to be transported into the harry potter would. Just love it so much.
I feel like I wouldn’t survive it but the Kate Daniels books are my all time favorite and of all the books that’s where I’d expect to end up 😂
I cannot wait to read Maggie, thank you for the giveaway.
Grimm and Bear It from the Stay a Spell series by Juliette Cross. Just a delightful grumpy-sunshine with magic fun and who doesn’t love the New Orleans vibe. oh and there’s a murder and some hijinks into the underworld, its a great time!❤️
I’ve always wanted to be an omega werewolf in one of the worlds written by Patricia Briggs in her mercy Thompson or alpha and omega series. Just seems like a wonderful ability to have…the ability to give others peace and ease their emotional pain.
Also being a prime in the world of hidden legacy or a guest at Dina’s inn would be pretty fun too. 🙂
The far future worlds of Jack McDevitt (The Academy novels) where there are mysteries, but don’t appear to be any worries about money, health, war …
Oooh, I never win anything, but it’s such a fun question anyway, so might as well try! City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong, and the rest of the Rockton/Haven’s Rock books, because I love detective/mystery novels, characters are fun, and the nature is so well-described.
Oh this is a tough one!
I know I could pick a non House Andrews book, but come on? I would definitely say Sweep of the Heart or really any Innkeeper book because MAGIC INNS!! But Sweep of the Heart also has Orro and his amazing cooking and all the drama with the spouse selection. I want a front row seat for that!
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold. There are scary things but they’re not THAT scary and I love the theology.
Oh, what an amazing opportunity. So many of us spent our childhoods longing to be able the worlds of our favorite books. For me, definitely the early Narnia books-especially after the defeat of the white witch and before the last battle. And I agree with so many people here that the Inn would be an amazing place to visit, especially to sample Oreo’s cooking, meet Caldenia, and visit Baja-Char. Hopefully Arland and Maud would drop by-with Helen, of course.
Patricia McKillips Riddle Master series would be an amazing place to be transported into. I love that world…
Very difficult to pick, but if I had to pick one, Freedom’s Choice – Anne McCaffrey – (Freedom/Catteni Series)
Other worlds, new opportunities and challenges, space travel
Currently when needing an escape – need to go somewhere besides Earth
I don’t think I’d do well in most fantasy worlds (indoor plumbing is a necessity) so I’d have to say the Hidden Legacy world where one of you might inherit magical abilities or the Inkeeper world to travel the galaxy.
My first impulse was to dive into the Innkeeper series, but right now, life is difficult, and I need to be under less stress (they always have a crisis to overcome/advert). I recently read Legends and Librarians by Pandora Pierce, and I’d love to live in a magical library with characters from my favorite books. If you need a cozy read, I recommend it. Team Andrews are my favorite authors! I’ve got your books and read/listen to them often. Thank you for all the escapes from reality you’ve provided over the years. Hugs!
Honestly, I love Hidden Legacy so much, I’d want to go for a stroll (or run?) through there.
I’d love to be transported into Innkeeper Chronicles as staff at Dina’s inn. I want to taste Orro’s cooking, travel to Bahachar, and meet the guests. Learn how to control certain aspects of the inn and how to deal with different galactic creatures.
When I was a child, I wanted to get my degree in hospitality and become the manager of a Disney hotel. That didn’t work out but I sometimes still think about running a bed and breakfast.
Any of the Innkeeper books–mainly for the food.
I hope that your weekend is relaxing and life improves for you. It is difficult to choose only one as I’m a voracious reader. So have to go with three – Silent Blade; Dragonriders of Pern; Psy Changling series.
Thank you for all you do!
“Lake Silence” by Anne Bishop….would love to stay at The Jumble!!
Your world building and Anne’s world building are the best I have ever read……
One of Patricia Briggs Mercy books. Most any would do
If I could enter the world of one book, I would love to move to Tamson house from Charles de Lint’s book Moonheart. It just feels like an amazing place to be
I know it doesn’t have to be yours, but I would love to stay at Gertrude Hunt from Clean Sweep, and the other innkeeper books.
There are so many worlds to choose from!! But I think right now, at least I’d choose Pern.
Hang in there. The story will come.
Innkeeper. Keep my life the same but add in the element of visisting the inn occasionally would be awesome. I would be an in the know human who visits occasionally to have lunch with some really cool guests and eat Orro’s food!
The Riddlemaster trilogy by Patricia McKillip.
Amazing plot and cliffhangers, wonderful character development, and rich description.
I would enter The Cry of the IceMark by Stuart Hill
In the spirit of childhood nostalgia, the world of the Famous Five. I know it technically exists in the real world, but I want to live in the time when young children could just go on a cycling tour of England by themselves on a whim and kind strangers would give them cold ginger ale and sandwiches…I was born too late to experience that world.
I have always wanted to live in Middle Earth….maybe in a nice quiet hobbit hole surrounded by all of my books! 🙂
Burn for me – Hidden Legacy
Ooh tough question! I think it would be fun to be transported into Sweep of the Heart, for the fun aliens, food and shenanigans!
The very first book I read that transported me into a different world was Anne McCaffrey Dragonflight. I already loved to read but was thoroughly transported into that world. I’ve always looked for books like that since!
Wow, it’s hard to pick just one book to fall into! Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter books, the Mercy Thompson books, Kate Daniels books, ack!
I think I would have to go with a childhod fave and pick Dragonriders of Pern. I would deal with Thread if I could bond with a dragon! Or even a fire lizard.
I hope your next week goes much better than this one has!
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. One of those books that ends perfectly, but that still inspired me to plot out what would happen for the next few years after we leave the story.
Sweep of the Heart would be a great book to be transported into.
Nine Princess In Amber.
Kate! … Paksenarrion, Mercy Thompson, …
If I were transported into any book, I’d want it to be one where I have some chance of survival. (You guys are so spot-on with Maggie!) As an arthritic lady of a certain age, I would probably not do all that well in the works of many of my favorite authors: Ilona Andrews, Alexandre Dumas, Sherri Tepper….
But I might make it in Dorothy Dunnet’s works, so I’m going to imagine being dropped into the Burgundian court of the early Renaissance. Maybe I could get a job as a lady’s maid or something.
This is so difficult, because I wouldn’t survive in the worlds of my favorite books. Innkeeper is my favorite comfort read, and Dina would keep me alive, and I would blissfully eat Oreo’s food. I’m going with Sweep of the Heart.
Sweep of the Heart, especially since I’m currently re-reading it. Would love to be one of the observers eating Orro’s cooking. OR Pride and Prejudice
Enjoy the weekend and reset. The Mushroom Center Disaster – strange little book from my childhood with lovely artwork.
Kate Daniels world of course. It is even better in Graphic audio. who knew it could get any better. I never thought anything could be as good as reading.
I would love to be in Kate Daniels!!
The Innkeeper world. It us one of my favorite series.
Court of Midnight and Deception (the omnibus with all three) by K M Shea. My favorite comfort read.
Wishing you peace and no drama with extra sausage treat times!
Honestly, anything a little less stressful and more community-oriented than the reality we’re all currently trying to survive. Sweep of the Heart for sure, the Hobbit if it could be a bit more progressive with gender roles (I shall fight my own orcs, thank you, but prefer to trim the verges) or Patricia McKillips’s Riddlemaster of Hed
I would go into “Midlife in Gretna Green” with it’s gateway to multiple realms, magic, humor and characters I’d like to know in real life.
I immerse myself in all of HA books so it is hard to pick just one.
If I had to pick just one, I would say I felt transported to the different worlds and I could picture all the unique species in Maud’s book, Sweep of the Blade! That was an incredible story and an imaginative book!
I would want to be transported into Bank’s novel, The Player of Games, so I could have a great time living in The Culture. Safe!
While your books would normally be my choice, with everything going on in the world I need comfort, with zero chance I would fall into some world ending catastrophe. At the moment I would choose Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells. The perfect amount of magic with good cooking and family.
The Innkeeper series is the equivalent of, “Calgon, take me away!”
Jenny Swartz House series, if I could have a House.
Maud
No brainer for me…Hidden Legacy. Mundane on the outside, chaos on the inside.
Kate Daniels world definitely!
Lois McMasters Bujold’s “Shards of Honour” would be my choice.
Storm Called by Susan Copperfield
So many to choose from: but I’ll go with the Twelve Houses series world by Sharon Shinn. I just love those characters so much!
Hidden legacy world..modern amenities + magic
No doubts, the Innkeeper Series! I love that series so much! Kate’s world ki da scares me. Imma big chicken!
I tend to bounce around to whatever world I am reading at the time but most recently I’ve wanted to live in Kate Daniel’s world. As someone who is in America right now, it feels like a magic shift would solve a lot of the issues. I hate to wish for the end of the world but sometimes mages shooting lightning out of their hands or people turning into actual monsters seems a lot easier to deal with than the current state of affairs.
Anne Bishop’s world of others. Any of the communities but right now Lake Silence appeals most.
I am having so many thoughts about which book series I fell into. so I am going to say the Liaden series by Sharon Lee and the late Steve Miller. Val Con and Miri in the Agent of Change sucked me into their world and I’ve been in love with them ever since.
I’m transported into a book? Hmm, I think one key criterion has to be I am able to survive the world at least, perhaps even find a niche in which to succeed. Therefore, despite some unarmed fighting skills, I’d last about 3 minutes max in Kate & Curran’s world, so that’s out. Same for the other Andrews worlds I love. I think Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal might have a place for me. First a job with the new Post Office, and then maybe over time I could even curry favor with Vetinari. If not, surely the Librarian could use an assistant? Yes, that’s the world for me.
The first book I got sucked into as a little girl was “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell. Before this book, I was a remedial reader. After this book, I discovered Harry Potter, then Lord of the Rings, and I’ve been a book-hording dragon ever since. I love all Ilona Andrews books, and am a proud member of the Book Devouring Horde!
This is such a tough question. 🙂 I think four answers popped up at the same time. I’m going to go with my inner child who wishes animals could talk and good wins in the end. My answer is Narnia; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Dina and Sean Sweep series
The book that I always come back to is Dragonsinger of Anne McCaffrey, the book I found in the library when it was first published. It was my introduction into Pern and all other good writers I found since. It really got both my (Dutch) sons reading English by starting to read it to them, and then suddenly half way through having no time to read it for them any more, forcing them to read it for themselves 😀
I would love to be a guest at Dina’s inn! It would be fascinating the people I would meet. The idea of having all of my desires catered to sounds awesome.
This is a tough question—so many worlds that I love I wouldn’t want to visit in reality because I think I’d be killed pretty quickly with all the vampires, werewolves, djinn, rakshashas, etc. running around. So maybe I’d visit Gertrude Hunt in Sweep of the Heart. My safety would be their highest concern, and I’d get to watch the spouse selection. 🙂
Thank you for writing all the books. I recently reread “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking.” and was right there watching the gingerbread men fight. I fed Bob a dead fish.
Oh, that’s tough! In a lot of books, we’re supposedly already living in that world and just don’t know about magic, inns, whatever… And in others, the Earth is pretty much destroyed.
So, I think I’d go with K.B. Wagers’ NeoG books!
Since I learned the basics of “Maggie” I’ve often thought which of House Andrews’ books/worlds I’d like to find myself in. Such a hard decision…. but I’ll have to say I’d start with a the Innkeeper-verse.
Kate will alway be my favorite!
Hmm, tough one. I would enter Sweep of the Blade and enter the world of Arland, Maud, and Helen. The gardens there sound amazing.
I hope I win….it would make a lovely birthday gift as I turn 66 today and just retired three weeks ago. Now I have time to read all night if I want!
There are so many scary worlds out there! I agree with whoever said they like high stakes fiction but not real life, especially given how high stakes everything feels right now. So, I’d say Tortall (Tamora Pierce) with Kel in the Protector of the Small series, or Damar (Robin McKinley) in the Blue Sword, although hopefully if went there, I would actually like horses in real life, and not just on the page!
Caliban’s war if i could be aboard the Rocinante or one of Avasarala’s aids.😎
her majesty’s dragon if i could have a dragon bond😍
Innkeeper all the way! I like that she sorry of has two lives. She’s part of the normal everyday world, but she can also easily travel to exotic far off locales. And she meets a ton of people and gets exposure to the greater beyond without ever needing to leave home. When she has events she’s crazy busy, but I like that most of the time her inn is a quieter pace.
I really like the whimsy of the Innkeeper universe. I think it would be wonderful to have a badass Innkeeper friend that invites me to witness a Spousal Election with all the shenanigans while drinking exotic tea and eating delicious food in a dining room by an alien ocean. And who hasn’t wished they could change their space on a whim?
Great question! So many wonderful worlds but, as I am now happily retired, I think afternoon tea with Caldenia would be the best. So I choose Sweep of the Heart. Thank you for all your worlds.
My first knee jerk answer would be the Dresden Files, but given that in Harry Dresden’s world you’re either born with enough magic to take care of yourself or you’re not, I think on further consideration I would rather go adventuring in the Cradle series by Will Wight. In Linden’s world, all you need is dedication and you can literally become a Dreadgod with thousands of worlds to explore! And if you join the Reapers, occasionally you get to make your own world!
The Dragon Riders of Pern. Because I would love to bond with and ride a dragon. Wouldn’t riding a dragon in the mountains and diving into warm seas be glorious? (Fighting Thread would be a small price to pay for THAT!)
Pathfinders Way by T.A. White would be my choice.
Either the Innkeeper series or the Preservation world from Murderbot. Would love to taste Orro’s cooking!
I would like to be a hobbit honestly. Second breakfast is sounding delicious right now.
Hidden Legacy I think. I love the magical powers combined with modern technology.
Innkeeper, I know Dina would protect me lol
The Miles Vorkisigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. But as a child it was A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Hoping that life smooths out for you next week.
What world? If I can be an Innkeeper, then Innkeeper. But not if I have to be a human who must not know about inns (though maybe I already am? Who would know?). If I can be a magic user, then Hidden Legacy, but not if I have to be a non-magical person at the mercy of a House. Hmmm…..
This was surprisingly difficult. I love fantasy for the escape, but it would be very difficult to be myself most places. I think House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones.
All These Worlds, by Dennis E Taylor. It’s the third Bobiverse book,and the first in the series to introduce non-Bobs who become key players within the Bobiverse. I totally want to be a Van Neumann probe and live forever as I explore the galaxy and make epic discoveries. And also be besties with Bridgette.
I would love to visit Kate’s World, I still have the little stuffed lion that says “here kitty kitty”…I love it.
I want to hang out with the Innkeepers! or anything Cozy and safe world wise.
I love maps!! Hurray for maps and extras! It’s okay if there’s no Hugh or it takes awhile. I already feel so spoiled getting regular blog posts on top of everything you guys release each year.
While I love to read isekai/portal fantasy, I definitely don’t want to live in one for real (poor Maggie). What makes books so wonderful and fun to read is too much for me as a scaredy cat that screams when she sees worms and bugs irl.(lol)
As a nice long vacation, I’d love to stay at Gertrude Hunt and have all the cozy vibes. AND EAT ALL THE AMAZING FOOD. And I desperately want to give Beast treats and give Belaud attentions.
But I’d also love to pop into Hidden Legacy’s world to see what magic I would have.. or Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling world to see if I’d be a shifter or Psy and which kind. (And I love you Kate but your world is too intense for me to live in!)
TBH most of the House Andrews worlds are just.. very dangerous, haha. My partner and I have discussed “what would happen if we got isekai’d” and the reality is that I’d probably run some kind of tavern/food place and he’d be a tinkerer. Neither of us would be much for adventuring, lol. Still, I would definitely pick Innkeeper out of all of them. Space tech and magic? Yes. Get set up in Baha Char and make enough money to figure out how to explore the whole galaxy.
Pern has always been one of my tops. I want a fire lizard as a pet so badly. And other than their big bad is thread which is more natural disaster than scary monsters. So I’ll take it.
Otherwise Innkeeper, but only if I have the power to change my house with my mind. Such a great superpower.
Does Manga count? because I would enter the world of Earth Land and join the Fairy Tail guild! I would have a found family (like Bug from Hidden Legacy) and the power of friendship
My magic would manifest as some sort of summoning mage (like the summoners of HiddenLegacy).
Fairy Tail reminds me of the Hidden Legacy series a great deal, except for the high fantasy setting.
If I were to choose a book from your collection, I would definitely choose Ruby Fever.
I would definitely go with an Inn Keeper book- there are so many characters and worlds to explore!
Probably either Hidden legacy but only if I get a power or G.A. Aiken Dragon kin/Scared Earth.
I want to desperately go to an Earth inn. Just literally everything about them is perfect dream world!
Anything else I think of, I would die within 0.02 seconds
I’d like to be transported to Sharon Shinn’s Mystic and Ryder book. love the world!
Clean sweep! No thinking necessary – it is just comfortably familiar enough not to lead to overwhelm, and vibrant enough to want to live in forever. As long as my family and friends are able to drop in with me. Or maybe one of Agatha Christies Poirot mysteries – luxury-coded European destinations with a thrum of excitement (as long as you are not the person being murdered).
First, I hope next week is better for you!
Second, for my entry: I would be transported into Burn for Me.
I would hope to be magically gifted once I found myself there, but even if I were not, I know all the books in Hidden Legacy so well after repeated re-reads I think I could pull a Maggie-like trick and make my secret knowledge pay off for me! Plus, you know, MAGIC! 🙂
Inn keeper world for sure.
Real life with a little extra fun.
Matadora by Steve Perry. It has mysticism, science fiction and so much more. It is a wide universe Mr. Perry has created. But I still love the universes that House Andrews has created. Probably the Sweep series is my favorite but anything Kate and Curran is also fabulous.
If I was to be transported into any book, it would probably be the Innkeeper series. There is something about the series that speaks to my traveler’s heart. I would love to be able to go to Baha-char or try a mango dessert made by Orro. I just love how different languages and cultures are woven into the world/stories.
P.S. This is so exciting! I can’t wait to read Maggie’s new book and immerse myself into her world!
I have always wanted to be in the Betan Astronomical Survey, from Lois McMaster Bujolds Vorkosigan books…
The Dragon Lance Chronicles, Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I could die in this book and still love it.
“The Blue Sword” by Robin McKinley.
Interesting question. When I was considering it, I was only thinking about your series. Although my favorite universe is Kinsmen, I would love to be in the Innkeeper World. I just listen to a fun John Scalzi Third District story that reminded me of Innkeepers (without any secrecy, werewolves or vampires.)
I really want to enter Kate’s world see Atlanta, and Wilmington.
absolutely would love.
An author I discovered through KU writes why choose romance with really interesting worlds and characters.
KC Kean makes her FMCs a lot like Kate Daniels actually. Clever hardasses with big hearts and big mouths. 😆
Maybe Winnie the Pooh, if I could be transported as a childhood version of myself.
This is such a hard question!
I think I would choose Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey. I’ve always been entranced by the world of Valdemar, and Vanyel is one of my favorite characters.
Ooohh, tough one. If it was permanent Janet Edwards ‘Earth Flight’. Temporary would have to be Tamora Pierce’s ‘Page’. Even cooler would be to randomly choose a different one every week…just think, new places all the time, familiar people, inside information, and hopefully no permanent death. I am in Texas, DFW sorta specifically.
I think I’d have to go with burn for me and hope for a super power.
Although I thoroughly enjoy fantasy with dystopian nuances, I am feeling too stressed by current life events to be transported into them right now, so I am choosing a childhood favorite book called the forgotten door by Alexander Key in which there are still animals and comparison of our world and a more ideal world, and there is much more empathy and less dark scenes involved. It is a gentler andmore hopeful book than many of the things I read these days.
I love Burn For Me, as it is entry into a fabulous world. The entire series is so real to me
I’d love to be transported into Hogwarts as the new Professor of Muggle Studies, with a class or two for first and second years in Basic Arithmancy in addition to classes on the Muggle calendar, Muggle history to 1688, Muggle history after 1688, Muggle cultures, Muggle architecture and fine arts, etc. I can envision my lesson plans!
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. 🙂
Take care of yourselves, it’s been a wild week here, too!
This feels very random but I would quite like to enter Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest series. I want to talk to dragons and maybe if it’s not an adult novel, I won’t die so fast.
Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling world. So many different kinds of changelings, so many possibilities! Or possibly The Edge series. Being from Florida, I can clearly imagine the swamps.
An ARC!! Me, me , me 🙏🧐🫣
my all time favorite book, pivotal in the development of my values and passions is God Stalk by P C Hodgell. I would absolutely want to be transported to Tai Tastigon, ideally when Jame was there though that could be insanely dangerous. I love Jame so much. Tai Tastigon is an ” old, corrupt, rich God infested city”. the initial news about Maggie immediately made me think of Tauli Tastigon, one of my favorite cities ever.
Any of JD Robb’s In Death books. They have autochefs, flying cars, and Roarke!
Heartmate by Robin Owen. I’d find my heartmate, have an amazing paranormal power, and have a Fam.
If I were transported into a book, it would be Clean Sweep/The Innkeeper Chronicles. I have re-read the series so many times!
That’s a tough question with an answer that changes daily (if not hourly). Right at this moment, it would be Mirabile, from the Janet Kagan short stories.
Please take care of yourselves and keep hanging in there.
Any of the Innkeeper books, mainly so that I could take a holiday at Gertrude Hunt, eat Orro’s cooking and have a room that defies the laws of physics. And surreptitiously ogle with Sean and Arland (yes yes they are happily spoken for, but if Caldenia gets to look, so do I). Also a big thank you for everything that you share with us – from insight into the writing process to the wonderful snippets and chapters which always brighten our days. Take care.
oh gosh, I think being in the world of hidden legacies would be so cool! (armed with the appropriate prime level power and loving house, of course).
Full on cheating: The Innkeeper Chronicles. It’s established in that Earth everyone has a magical talent. It is also safe from alien invasions, roaming monsters, and humans of mass destruction. I was reading Omniscient Reader and I realized that I’d rather live in boring times 😅 and read about it.
Innkeeper Chronicles gives me relative safety, a cool hidden magic talent, and Caldenia reading Hidden Legacy is side cannon so your books still exist (I am Team Dushebug not Team Facts muh-ha-ha). Should I somehow discover the aliens, I get Dina to assimilate me, Sean to protect me, Orro to feed me, and Caldenia to be the greatest person ever. As a foodie, I’ll sit at the dining room table and beg Caldenia for wisdom.
I would say Sweep of the Blade. The worlds and those who inhabit them fascinated me. And imagining what vampires look like….
of your books it would be innkeeper. Of other authors it would be Harry Potter. I am dying to read Maggie and waiting a full year for it to come out is impossible.
transport me to Sweep In Peace!!
it might be because I’m re reading it for the first time in more than 15 years, but I’m going to say The Helmsman by Bill Baldwin. there are many others, I’ve been an avid reader since I was 10 years old (1965) so I couldn’t tell you the FIRST book that transported me to the world in the book, just that I’ve always had the ability to “see” the books I read just like a movie. Science fiction was my first love, the worlds that are invented for that genre have always fascinated me. That’s probably why I liked urban fantasy when I first tried it in 2015 (Anita Blake) and that got me hooked into UF. It didn’t take me too long to find Kate, and I happily gobbled up every series you’ve written, and am avidly waiting for more. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 0_0 ♥️
The problem with visiting most book worlds is that in order to be interesting, there needs to be conflict. As I would prefer to live an incredibly boring life, most of the books I most enjoy reading seem uncomfortable for living in.
The book I’d most like to be transported to, then, is a Care Bears book.
Redwall. for the scrumptious food and the kind animals.
The Edge.
Doyle and MacDonald’s Mageworlds. The female characters are smart, empowered and proactive. The male characters are diverse and intriguing.
Sadly I can’t enter (not from US) but it is finally Friday so maybe I can share my pick without rippercushions:)
Michael Ende: Neverending story
I would meet a luckdragon…
Any of the Innkeeper books!!! 😀
I’m not in the USA so not entering the giveaway but just wanted to tell you about the book I’d like to be transported into.
This book has a cafe by the sea with blue gingham curtains and little windows. You can watch the waves breaking on the shingle beach from the seats by the windows. There are nice charming villagers, who are kind and slightly conical and lovely 24 hours a day. The weather is warm with a gentle sea breeze. I live in a tiny, cozy cottage and spend my time crocheting and drinking tea while eating the occasional custard cream. There might be a cat or two and a pup in a basket by the aga. Life is simple.
This would be a very dull book to read so I don’t expect it exists but…..that’s the book I’d like to be in right now……
Oh man I’m sorry, you had a tough week. Really appreciate this question though!
I would love to be transported to every single world you have ever created. Your world building is fantastical, engaging, and addictive in the best way. I’d be there in a heartbeat despite the dangers.
But if I had to pick one book, I’d actually go with the one that got me into world building, one that has featured in my dreams since I first read it as a kid: Alanna by Tamora Pierce. Tortall is a world that I’ve imagined countless times, the danger feels manageable, and the magic is quintessential.
I want to go to there.
I think I would want to be in the Furies of Calderon book world. Having fire or water crafting around me would be amazing
the inns
Going in as me I wouldn’t last a week in any of the worlds I’d like to go to.
Maybe The Black Jewels. But I would need to be at least an Ebon-Gray to survive.
I would love to be in the Innkeeper’s world because most people have magic they just don’t know how to use it. It would give me a chance to figure mine out!
A lot of books are great to read, but I sure wouldn’t want to suffer through all the horrible things the characters have to endure. I think my top choice would still be Lord of the Rings.
Exciting news from Tor! This book is really going to happen. I’m looking forward to it.
Moon’s Knight by Lilith Saintcrow
oh, man – I have to pick only one? I guess I have to go with the world of Robin McKinley’s Blue Sword. I can’t tell you how often I’ve read it over the last 40 years.
Take care of yourself!
Memory Called Empire! Not bored, but often tired
Harry Potter, for its combination of magical systems (potions, spells, etc) and magical beasts (dragons!), all available alongside our current modern world.
That’s hard. Probably any of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books. But I like my indoor plumbing. 🙂 Maybe in one of the Hawkbrother vales.
I’ve always been a super big dragon girlie which of course started in the Anne McCaffrey days. Now, I think I would love to be transported into Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. The world of the Innkeeper Chronicles sounds pretty great too, but only if I could eat all my meals from Orro 🙂
Ruby Fever I would love to be there for the showdown with Arkan etc.
wow, sooo hard to choose! I’ve been immersed in Jodi Taylor’s Time Police and St Mary’s Chronicles. If not bopping around the time line, I would be a guest at the Inn, playing 3D Stratego with Caldenia and getting thrashed at every turn.
Do I have to choose just one? Lol. In order to survive it would probably be a Mercy Thompson book. Love those. Of yours I would choose any Kate Daniels because I love everything about them. The world. The characters. Their relationships. The humor. The action. Grendel. Here kitty kitty kitty. Catnip on the bed. Andrea. Doolittle. Dali. Everything Kate and Curran. I think Magic Triumphs because Roland finally gets put in his place but is still plotting even if (maybe temporarily) ineffectively). And Conlan is finally safe.
The book that started me on my journey out of only non-fiction & ultimately to the BDH was “On Basilisk Station” by David Weber.
I would be happy in any of your books. I love the Kinsman, Innkepper, The Edge, The Hugh and Hidden Legacy books so very much. But if I must pick just one story I think it would be “A Mere Formality” I laughed until I cried and would love to learn more about The Reigh and all the worlds in it!
If I could be transported into *any* book? Oh this choice breaks me heart but… I’d probably pick Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters. Touring Egypt with Amelia Peabody? Yes please!!
The world of Grace Draven’s Radiance
The Malloreon series by David Eddings
I’d love to be in the Innkeeper universe! I desperately want to stay at an inn and meet all the various galactic citizens.
I would want to enter the innkeeper series
Oh I absolutely choose Hidden Legacy. I want to hang out in the wonderful Baylor compound with the family.
(Not in the US)
As long as I wasn’t the victim, I’d like to be in JD Robb’s world of Eve Dallas
Queen of the Tearling or Fifth Wave.
I want to be inserted into Sweep of the Heart as a vampire. Fun stuff!
Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series – I figure with all of my knowledge about what is going on in that world, Nix and I would be besties!
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn. I believe that world is our future. If I was in the book, then it would be 90 years after the apocalypse.
As much as I love your Innkeeper series (and have read it many times in multiple formats), I have to go with Narnia – my first foray into fantasy at age 8.
There are so many fun worlds to join, but right now I’m in a space mood so I’ll say the TA White Firebird Chronicles. I’d want to see different planets and places today. Tomorrow might be a nice stay at Gertrude Hunt, but today it’s space with spaceships.
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery – very inner feelings book. Also Sunshine by Robin McKinley – I loved how the baking scenes were written.
The first thing that came to mind is a series I read over 60 years ago. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern. I think it’s what started me on my love of fantasy/science fiction. Who wouldn’t want to ride dragons and fight to save your world.
There are a lot of worlds I’d like to see but I suspect I wouldn’t survive the most interesting ones! I’d really love to see the world of Martha Wells’ Raksura books – floating islands and giant treehouses sound amazing as long as you can stay out of the way of the Fell.
Any Star Trek book, post TNG timeline. A post scarcity society, Holodecks to inhabit the books I love as down time, travel and exploration to wonders and mysteries of the galaxy.
NOT an entry, as I now live in Scotland, but I feel so strongly about Andrea K. Host’s Touchstone series that I would go to that planet and meet all the Sitari in a nanosecond.
I want to be a welcomed guest at Dina’s Inn and go to Baha-Char
If I had to get transported into a book it would probably have to Eichiro Oda’s One Piece! The world is vast and dangerous with different power structures. If you read any other the story I would probably try to become a Revolutionary to liberate the people from the Celestial Dragons!
The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley. This was one of my first introductions to fantasy and adventure… and I have never looked back since.
Hang in there – take whatever time you need.
Stray, by Andrea K Host — in that universe, stray people from other dimensions are an acknowledged phenomenon 😁
I would do
psy-Changeling book series by Nalini Singh
The Borrowers! As a borrower or a human in the know:)
Dime Store Magic by Kelly Armstrong
It was the first book I read in the urban fantasy genre
Thanks for doing this giveaway, very kind of you!
It’s hard to pick just one, but I’m going to go with Innkeeper as I’d love to have a room that can change with my whims, explore other worlds & eat Orro’s food!!
I’ve read 3 or so space series by jenny Schwartz. And they were all great. IMO.
And this group would probably love her spin on Baba Yaga with a space fairing house. Uncertain Sanctuary: the complete trilogy is available on audible.
Now I’ve got book hangover, so I will probably reread the innkeeper ga versions. 🤩
Hugs to Ilona and Gordon hope your weekend is easier than the week. We will get Hugh when it’s ready. Don’t stress. BDH will deal. 😍
On my summer break between college and grad school I sank into The Lord of the Rings and didn’t resurface for 5 days. Started talking in “Tom Bombadil” cadences! A wonderful experience.
Blue Sword or Hero in the Crown by Robin McKinley. Nothing better then amazing horses, learning to swordfight and finding yourself. Re-read these books every year since about 11.
Innkeeper for sure bc I’m not sure if I have the strength to live in the Edge or KD worlds. Hidden Legacy could be doable but the thought of my life being ruined bc an overpowered house decided to make it storm, no thank you!
take your time! the weeks have been hard
Thank you so much and take care of yourselves. Rest and recharge!
The book into which I would like to go…so many choices, but today, I believe I would like a visit to the Inn to taste some of Orro’s wondrous creations and have a room that the Inn determines is the best place for me to be.
My favorite books tend to involve a lot of difficulties, so I would not pick any of them. After quite a bit of thinking, I have picked the happiest book I know, and it’s Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. So… that one.
I would want to be transported into the world of Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changeling series that starts with “Slave to Sensation.”
“Burn With Me” was a close second!
Harry Potters world is my first choice but Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is right up there.
Avowed is amazing! I did my “do what I would do” run, then checked for my missed achievements and am now in a “be the b***ard” run 😄
And… it has Garrus from ME in it 😍 Am *not* enjoying p-ing him off!
Innkeeper for sure, magic houses are my very favorite!
1. Please rest and recuperate. Life is its own special struggle sometimes and having a little fun with family, friends, pets and books is a great way to recharge–It’s why I am a part of the BDH!!!
2. Choosing a book world to transfer to: that is HARD! In 6th grade I wanted to be a nurse and live in the Cherry Ames books with all of my little heart. Then I discovered Tarzan -I would explore Africa. Of course I discovered the Lord of the Rings and Hobbits! Discovered Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan space adventures. More recently I find I kind of love Honor Racontour’s “Case Files of Henry Davenforth” series. But I discovered and have been reading all of IA’s worlds. The Hidden Legacy world might be the front runner to fall into: 1. magic healing/sciences-health care would be amazing 2. study magic as a science- science geek that I am, I would be overjoyed. 3. Still get to keep all my favorite technology: cars, computers, cell phone’s, air conditioning and refrigeration. (though I figure my genetic legacy would be as a prime in house cleaning magic…maybe I could translate that into disinfecting hospitals and reducing the chance of MERSA and other hospital related infections). Hmmm, sounds better and better-yep let’s go with Hidden legacy!
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, so I can live in that Italian castle with the wisteria
Can we pick out character? If so, I’d like to be Kinsey Millhone from Sue Grafton’s A is for Alibi.
Anything by Rex Stout. I’ve wanted to have dinner at 454 West 35th and then go dancing with Archie since I was 12!
Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle.
God has a sense of humor, redemption is possible even in extremis, hard work and thinking carefully matter, and regular people can make a difference.
Hmmm.. If I had to give a cliche answer? Harry Potter. Still has the magic but also modern life. I think we underestimate how much we would be missing modern life in a fantasy universe.
Total fantasy? Then the world of the five gods with Lois McMaster Bujold’s Penric & Desdemona series. That book series is an absolute treasure.
I’d pick the Innkeeper world! I’m all in for trying out that magic house in a sci fi universe life 🙂
I think the earliest series I can remember reading that I wanted to be in was the Harper Hall trilogy set in the Dragonriders of Pern universe by Anne McCaffrey.
Take as long as you need to with Hugh! *hugs* take care of yourselves first!
The world I would most be interested to drop into would be The Others series by Anne Bishop, specifically into the Wild Country book..bc I love the possibilities still left in that setting!
So many choices. All of the above, but if I had to choose, I think the Innkeeper series. I would like to be an apprentice innkeeper, and maybe take on the Scottish Inn when it becomes available.
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett (I desperately want my own piece of Luggage)
I would love to explore New Delphi in the Kinsmen universe. I’d like to drink pink wine and eco lite the terraces and view all the dahlias. It’s sounds lovely.
I’m feeling nostalgic lately. I’d choose either Pern or Valdemar. I’ve always wanted a fire lizard of my own. I’d want magic if I visited Valdemar mind or mage style. The talking horses would be fun but I don’t think I’d make it as a Herald.
Any of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books – I want to be Grandma Mazur.
Innkeeper-any book-but especially Sweep of the Heart!
If you were transported into a book, which book would that be?
Currently that book would be “Sweep of the Heart” because the Spousal Selection is the greatest reality TV of all time and space.
I can’t participate in the giveaway as I’m not in the US.. but anyway this question is moot as I almost always get transported in a book whenever I’m reading great authors like You,T A White, Nalini Singh, Nora Roberts, Patricia Brings.. the list is endless!
..sooo I m thinking why would I be stupid to choose only one book,when I can have so very many just living my ordinary wonderful life?
Anyways take care of yourselves..your well-being is more important than Hughday and I wish you all the very best life has to offer… along with my gratitude and love.🤓
Hidden Legacy!
Sweep of the Heart and right into the observer stands with a box of popcorn.
Definitely something contemporary because I love modern medicine haha. But seriously, one of Kate Canterbary’s books, because she has lots of fun scenes at restaurants, bars, and farmer’s markets in New England. And I love her characters’ banter.
I guess if I had to pick one book, it would be Boss in the Bedsheets, because Diana Santillian (MMC’s mom) is hilarious in that book.
Sweep of the heart with a box of popcorn, please.
If I had to be reincarnated into any novel, one of the coolest would be Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. Yes, there is an almost comically high death toll, but just the sheer possibilities of the world… well, Kim Dokja just shows us how well it can be done, I doubt I can reach even an ounce of his potential 😂
Fourth Wing is another great one, yusss, ride the dragonsssss
On the flip side, a world that would absolutely suck is Hunger Games. Yikesss 😬
I would want to enter the Innkeeper series. The house’s ability to move and shape to the Innkeeper’s desire and thoughts just deeply appeals to my inner decorator and imagination. Also I’d hope desperately if I landed there that I WAS the innkeeper! ♥️
“Sweep of The Heart” is my current “go to world” I am an accountant and would gladly take care of the books at an INN.
At my age I have visited places that were well known and disreputable before they were changed to become respectable such as Ybor City in the Gulf of Mexico and the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. I visited frequently in the Murder Capitol Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua. That was in my real life. I have two fantasy places I would enjoy visiting David and Leigh Edding’s House at the End of the World in The Redemption of Althaus it has a hallway that has entrances to Anyplace, Anywhere and Anywhen. The other is Baha Char of the Innkeepers Series.
I don’t want to have any magical abilities, I want to be an observer. Maybe a Janitor in the House or a waiter in a Cafe in Baha Char.
If had to pick only one it would be in HA’s Innkeeper’s Baha Char.
I feel you on the rough week – hopefully it will ease up for you.
I think it would be either be the world of Kate Daniels – or The Eyre Affair.
Hi! Happy Friday! It’s been a week. I would like to be in the Hidden Legacy world or the Psy Changeling world by Nalini Singh. They both speak to me like nothing else.
If it’s my choice, I’ll take Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing. A group of friends hanging out at a Mediterranean villa, nothing excessively sinister happens, even the extras and off-screen non-essential personnel (I presume I wouldn’t be a named character; probably a servant or shopkeeper out in town) have a simple, relatively easy life.
Like many of the BDH, I’d probably choose Sweep of the Heart or one of the other Innkeeper books since I’d be all cozy in Gertrude Hunt eating Orro’s masterpieces. I definitely wouldn’t survive KD or House warfare. Otherwise, I’d go with Victoria Goddard’s At the Feet of the Sun because I could travel to different worlds or take the sea train and take advantage of the universal stipend if I wanted to take a break from my job.
Dragonflies by Anne McCaffrey
I’d want to answer Kay Daniels maybe Magic “Clams” but I’m 100% sure I’d get eaten. I’m no Maggie 😂
So, I’ll stick with Katie Macalister’s “It’s all Greek to me”, which is one of my all time favorite romcoms. It’s a lot safer there. Plus-Greece!! What’s not to love?
Good luck with everything, life and Hugh. Thanks for the giveaway! 💕
Kate Daniel’s world. but only if I had a really good skill or gift to keep me alive 🤣
If I could be transported into a book, I’d want to be a Dragon Rider of Pern. To fly a dragon and fight the thread. To be able to time it. To always have a friend who knows you the best. That’s where it’s at.
Thank you Anne McCaffrey for introducing me to one of the best fantasy worlds in high school back in the 80’s. She was first but I am hooked on Kate Daniel and her friends too, but I would rather be flying.
Hope I’m picked to be introduced into yet another world.
Connie Willis’ To Say Nothing of the Dog—historians time traveling to ilyllic
Oxford…
Honor Raconteur’s Shinigami Detective series. Flush toilets, magic, and a reasonable expectation of not being randomly murdered.
I would want to be in Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce. Who would not want to be in a Kingdom with a Female Knight Champion and a girl who can talk to animals?
John Scalzi’s The Interdependency trilogy gobbled me up a few weeks ago.
It’s the first non-House IA story I have read or listened to since 2021–I got a TBI that year while going through a divorce and have read/listened to only IA books, until now. But IA books are still my best refuge!
Interview with a Vampire.
When I was a kid, the Gregor the Overlander series would take over my nights.
Any of the innkeeper books! I love that world soooo much!!!!!
I definitely answer this differently as an adult than I would as a child. Innkeeper is my go-to for escapism reading when the world is too much. I would love to be a guest in an Inn, eat Orro’s cooking, and meet alien races. SciFi is often vaguely (or very) threatening so the incorporation of fantasy elements is just so soothing while hitting my SciFi curiosity.
innkeeper world— magic inns that open unto amazing world and of course amazing food
OOF! I devour books so much, it makes this very difficult! If I have to be in my actual body, then Hidden Legacy for sure, I need my modern medicine and magic! I would also love the KD universe, if I could be an able bodied cat shifter of some ilk! I also really love Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series. I so wish he’d continue it… Very glad I found Kitty Norville & The Hollows (Kim Harrison) after I ran out of his series, I love those worlds! Even better, they led me to HA!
There are too many good books out there to choose from. I guess if I went with a childhood dream, probably Lackey’s Valdemar. Or Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic! Of course, if I one day woke up an an Inn, with the delicious smells of Orro’s kitchen wafting through, I wouldn’t be upset either. LOL
Any book by Wen Spencer, especially The Elfhome series and The Black Wolves of Boston. Also Sherwood Smith’s The Crown Duel and A Stranger to Command.
I live in England, so this is not a give away entry. There are so many series/books I would like to enter. My top 3 choices are:-
1, Nalini Singh’s psy changling world as a shifter (preferably in the bear den).
2, Ann Mcaffrey’s Crystal Singer’s world.
3, I would like to visit J.D. Robb’s in Death series mostly to hang out in Eve’s squad room and see all the detectives.
When I was younger I would read and reread all of Anne McCaffrey’s dragon riders of pern books, I soo wanted to dive into that world. I thought about what my rider name would be, the first place I would want to go when I was able to finally fly solo…. Just was totally taken in by those books. They felt so real.
The realness is part of why I’m a horde member. Every one of house Andrews books just grabs the imagination and it is a VR experience for me. I’m always sad when I get to the end and have to come back to reality…. The characters feel real, and like people that I would love to have in my life. I would love to stay at the inn and discuss recipes with Orro and joke about how my husband is also a poisoner of apple trees lol
Currently I am re-reading the Linesman Trilogy by SK Dunstall. One of my favorites. If I remember correctly House Andrews recommended the first book.
Take time to relax and recoup. The BDH can wait…..
Ooh, that’s a tough one. If I had to choose one I guess I’d choose Innkeeper, but only if I knew about inns.
I would like to be in Fumi Yoshinaga’s “What Did You Eat Yesterday?” series.
It’s so heartwarming and all the meal prep is written into the story.
The Count of Monte Cristo, anonymous English translation. Edmund and Haydee … sigh
I would transport myself to the Innkeeper world where I would have my own inn on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan near Ludington and provide comfort and safety to the universe’s vast and diverse inhabitants.
Bramble burn by Autumn Dawn. the idea of living in a tree really appeals to me.
I always wanted to live in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The concept of sailing into the unknown in a world somewhat different from your own, but with the knowledge that you have from your won world, has been enthralling since I was seven.
I would like to enter any Raymond Feist Riftwar saga book as long as I got to meet Pug. He was one of the characters that made me fall in love with Fantasy.
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Cruise. I want to be friends with those kooky people.
The Flame and the Flower which sparked my love of reading romance DECADES ago. It was an activity that I shared with my Mom. I miss her so…
I’d want to be transported to the world of The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness because it’s like magic has always been there but as humans we don’t see it unless we know. So it’s basically our world but with magic.
I would love to be transported into a Regency romance, so long as I don’t end up as the scullery maid.
The book I escape into is the book I am currently reading. Whatever that book may be if you are not a part of it why bother reading it? Escapism is the goal.
The Inkeeper series.
My choice would be Hidden Legacy! I’d love to have interesting magical powers, specifically anything to do with animals.
If I could be transported into any book, it would be Magic Bites. I would love to live Kate’s life, in a world of magic. You’ve done such an incredible job of building Kate’s world that I feel like it’s real!
The Inn Keeper’s world is my favorite destination – fictional or imagined.
I would be a cyber expert, responsible for maintaining Gertrude Hunt’s virtual image. Links to reservations would inexplicably lead to other options. Really, what business in our world today doesn’t have a web site?
In my free time I will plan sneak attacks on Orro’s kitchen. If I win, I get to cook.
If I lose, Orro delivers delicious treats. Win-Win!
Of course I will consult frequently with Dina and Sean on threats and defense. Threats change and defensive actions can cause their own issues. Caldenia can be inveigled to assist. She understands the importance flexible responses to evolving situations.
Visits are the essence of the Inn, so there will always be someone to learn from, reminisce with, or get to know.
The wonders of the universe behind every door, and all the pleasures of my home world surround me. Is it any wonder I want to beam into this world?
Please transport me to Clean Sweep…amazing world-building…totally addicting. (But only transport me if I can safely spy on the shenanigans!)
Take care of yourself and I will wait as long as it takes for Hugh, good things take time!
I would visit the Baylor world I think, I’m not tough enough to Kate’s and most of the fantasy books I read are in war. Although a world with dragons would be cool too! (As long as they don’t eat people)
So many great possible worlds. Since Star Trek has been novelized, I’m going for the post-Borg Federation on the Enterprise complete with Holodeck that will let me enjoy any book setting or adventure of my preference.
Hope things get better soon! And Thanks for the chance!
I would love to live in the town of Freya Grove in Celestine Martin’s Elemental Love books. The town has magical beings and magic, but its in South Jersey. Humans think magic isnt real but that the town “puts on shows” on the Jersey shore. Anyway world where I can have Wawa (convenience store) and magic Id love to go.
Oof. I would want to be in a very simple book where everyone is kind and things are going well. Maybe something like Goodnight, Moon?
Something soft and comforting and peaceful!
I think I would enjoy being transported to the Kinsmen universe, either Silent Blade or Silver Shark. I want to see the terraces and snack on Meli’s passion cones!
I know I don’t qualify as: UK resident. But I wanted to join the conversation 🙂
Any of the Culture books, Ian M Banks.
The attitude to gender and intelligence (AI individuals) particularly attracts me. And the long term vision of the Culture societies.
Plus I really want to be able to address everyone as ‘Ser’, regardless of gender :-DD
I love the world of Borderlands, created by author Lorna Freeman. The first book in the series was Covenants. I love the idea that the land (literally the earth) is magical and not just the people and creatures. The idea that the world is changing as a result of something that just is unexpected is fascinating to me. I also love the character of Rabbit and how he experiences so much personal growth.
Touchstone series by Andrea K. Host.
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
“Sorcery and Cecelia” by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer.
Loved this book when I first bought it. And still do.
I’d love to be in so many fantasy books! If I had to choose just one it would be a Harry Potter book. But it would be a huge bummer if I ended up being a Muggle! 😆
I would love to be transported into Andre Norton’s Beast Master series. It was one of the first SciFi series I read and started a lifelong journey for amazing stories. Unfortunately I don’t think I would live long in a Kate Daniel’s world despite how much I love the story
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Pretty sure I could forget to hit the ground in a pinch.
The Martian. No special powers or physical abilities. Just good old fashioned logic, science, and gumption. Plus who wouldn’t want to be a space pirate!
Dealing with Dragons by Patrica C. Wrede. One of my favorite books of all time and I keep going back to it over and over. A fun world filled with magic and adventure.
Last night I started a book called How to Flirt with a Witch by Tiana Warner. I was cracking up because the MC’s 10 week old rescue kitten is possessed by some kind of unknown evil and all these bad things keep happening. All I want to do is keep reading and figure out how this adorable kitten was cursed, but I’m too busy. So it would be nice to be transported that world so I can watch it play out in real time and not have to deal with work. And maybe learn how to flirt with a witch while I’m there.
I’m sorry about how life is getting in the way of, well, life. I hope next week is smoother!
Funny enough, we had this same conversation about living in fictional worlds at dinner last night. And sadly, I admit I’m not feeing highly adventurous right now, particularly as it comes to personal safety or even hygiene. If I were to be transported to any world, maybe McGuire’s InCrypted universe would be nice. Modern conveniences and low body count. Or perhaps Doyle/McDonald Price of the Stars or Lowell’s Solar Clipper series.
Have a restful weekend!
Book of Genesis.
Maybe I will live at least five hundred years. Maybe.
My first instinct was to say Hidden Legacy, but I think that it is too likely I would just end up as non-magical and/or hurt so I think the world of Wild Scottish Knight by Tricia O’Malley would be lovely — a small Scottish town with a little bit of magic.
Disc World by Terry Pratchett. I would love to be a witch in Lancre with a cottage and a garden
The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis I love the time period.
If I were transported into a book it would be Hidden Legacy – Burn for Me. I would, of course, not be an ordinary human but I would have some talent – animal mage. A second book would be Nalini Singh – psy-changling series – Silver Silence – would want to be a bear – it seems like they know how to have a great time. Obviously, I love animals.
Sorry to hear about the tough week, and hope things will go better next week! This question was fun, but really difficult, and I thought about it for a long time. My answer is, I’d like to be part of Elara’s gardening team in the KD universe. I love gardening, and it would be awesome to grow all different kinds of plants and process them into medicines. Hopefully I would develop some witchy powers to help me do that. Thank you for the chance at an awesome giveaway!
I keep coming back to Innkeeper. I think having the ability to change my environment and view would incredibly fun!
I want to go to the Inn and be so pampered. Eat amazing food and watch some gorgeous vampires play around after I serve them coffee.😄😋☕
Ooh I’d jump into the world of Tortall in a moment, especially the one featured in the Song of the Lioness series. Tamora Pierce was such a foundational author of my youth, I’ll never neglect her influence on my understanding of story and characterization.
The Last Battle, 7th book in The Chronicles of Narnia Series
I think I’m gonna have to go with Sweep of the Heart! Good food, magical inn, cute cat, what more would I need!?
I really love the innkeeper universe, but historically I would have had to choose the world of the Blue Sword by Robin McKinley!
Sweep of the Heart, hands down. I’ve literally dreamt of being transported there! 🥲
I would absolutely love to be transplanted into my genetics textbook because I really need to understand all the things.(lol). As my (real) answer, I would love to enter into the Innkeeper realm! Just enough reality and fantasy to keep me sane!
Howls moving castle. Sounds like it would be fun!
I would really like to visit any of the innkeeper books. I firmly believe that the universe is a vast wide space with unlimited possibilities, and with Dina, Sean, and Oreo trio, I would be in very safe hands to explore the big wide beyond. And also, I would like very much to see it with Caldenia’s running commentary. Though I have a very good inkling that I would be too dumb to keep her grace’s company for long.
Oh, what a question. Most of the books I read are fun to read about, nightmare to actually live in.
I think, I’d either choose the Innkeeper books (very little would change for me unless I either chose to engage with an Inn or got involved in shenanigans involuntarily) or the Elantra series by Michelle Sagara (at the very least, reading tons of books and being used to learning different languages would be very useful skills to have there).
There’s a book called The Fairy Godmother, by Mercedes Lackey. I’d want to be a godmother too, though. The whole series is great, but that first book sets it all up so well.
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Low stakes but lots of crazy fun.
Dragonriders of Pern. I always wanted a dragon 🙂
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Your books- Innkeeper Chronicles so I could travel through all the worlds!
Also Nalini Singh Psy-Changeling Series because I would love to be a changeling!
It’s a tie between the Arcane Casebook series by Dan Willis or the Shinigami Detective series by Honor Raconteur. Both have magic and mystery.
I know you said it didn’t have to be one of your books, but I REALLY want to visit Dina’s Inn. The magic of the inn making what it’s guests need, Orro’s food, Beast, Caldenia, the market, and visits from all the interesting species? Yes please!
“May you live in interesting times” is really a curse so I would also not choose to be transported to one of your books because life there would just be too hard! I’d choose to be transported to the children’s book series Arthur where the biggest worries aren’t of life and death significance.
So many fantasy worlds are terrible for women especially if you don’t have special powers. So, I would have to say the Wheel of Time world seems to give women multiple options even if you can’t channel. Of course, I would prefer to be there before the Dark One touches the world, but I’ll take what I can get!
If I got transported into a book as my very human self with 0 extra talents or suprise magic, I think I would like the Innkeeper series. It’s one of the few worlds where you can do as much or as little as you want and are not inherently in danger.
But if I got to pick my magic/situation I would be a ghost haunting a library in any world that would work in. Because that just sounds like way too much fun.
The Innkeeper. Absolutely the Innkeeper. While absolutely all of your worlds would likely kill me, (I am not athletically inclined, and even not interested in it physically) at least I could feast upon Orro’s dishes before dying at Caldenia’s feet. I’d like to think that I am intelligent enough to have a conversation with her, but likely would offend by asking a question that would pop out before my brain fully caught up with my mouth.
Outlander. I think it’s the nitty gritty details on the domestic side that make for excellent historical world building.
Firstly, as always, take care of yourselves — rest a bit more, cuddle with the fur babies and relax.
Much as I would love to visit, I don’t think I could possibly survive in the Kate Daniels World. So, if I were to escape into a different world, I would choose The Ordinary Magic series by Devon Monk. It is set in the beach town of Ordinary Oregon where the gods go to vacation, supernaturals run amok and the local law with a touch of magic is provided by the Reed sisters. It reminds me of the California beach towns where I grew up decades ago and I would enjoy setting up a tea shop there and watching the interaction between the community of gods, demons and people.
Hidden Legacy or Innkeeper
I feel like my answer changes all the time, but right now, I’m going with Kate Daniels world, or Hidden Legacy. But maybe Mercy Thompson’s world too.
Hard choice! Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Universe. I owe my marriage to her.
Thanks for brightening the day.
If I was transported it would be into Clean Sweep (probably the series as a whole) but as the random neighbor not in the know. If I did have all my outside knowledge, I’d probably just pretend I didn’t but be soooo jealous of the comings and goings because I’m not one for danger but also I’m such a huge fangirl!
The idea of what world to fall into is so broad. I think if I was the main character, Burn For Me – what an interesting talent and relationship with Rogan and such a supportive family. While Nevada has hard struggles, she sees such growth in herself, her power, and the security of her family.
I think if I feel into a world as an observer, I think I’d like to see Gideon the Ninth. Space, gods, skeletons and crumbling ruins of eons of civilization.
Blood Heir – I want to go study the magic bacteria and learn all about them! Also, swords and bows are fun
“If you were transported into a book, which book would that be?”
Oh man, that’s a tough call. I’m thinking Mercedes Lackey during the mage storms series (Storm Rising or Storm Breaking preferably). But if it’s a question of which world would I love to experience without trying to guide the story: Innkeeper, any of the books because I’d love to experience Gertrude Hunt. But not living among vampires; they’re too high-maintenance for me.
Another vote for the Innkeeper universe! My book choice would be Clean Sweep or any of the books that take place principally in Dina’s Inn. The Inn seems so sweet and cozy, but with a heavy dose of magic and the potential for mayhem.
I think I’d like to visit Innkeeper or Hidden Legacy where I could still be a regular person but be magic adjacent.
I’d like to be in The Wizard’s Butler by Nathan Lowell. (Although any place that can have a ferret heist would also have my vote!)
Honestly, if I were transported into a book, I would like it to be gentle sort of book, filled with kindness. Maybe something like Half Magic by Edward Eager, but I haven’t read that in many years, so I am not certain how well it aged…
Stray, the first book of Andrea Host’s Touchstone series.
Kate Daniel’s series. I would love to meet Roman
Since it’s Friday and I am exhausted then Midnight Serenade by Dusty Rose. That luxury cruise line, tropical ports and fun excursions sounds heavenly right about now😃
Kristin Cashore’s Graceling. I’d want to be a Graceling myself and have two different colored eyes and maybe the ability to coral chickens with my voice. Direct their flock movements at my whim. Or ducks. Maybe finally get my ducks in a row. 🦆🦆🦆 beware the village duck whisperer.
Hmmm, Narnia since it was my first.
Where to go is actually a hard choice. I’m old enough that I don’t really want adventure for myself. There is a big difference between tourist adventure and adventure adventure. I like the Elizabeth Bear’s White Space books (Ancestral Night, Machine). Yes they have their problems but overall it seems like a nice place.
Shadow Castle by Marion Cockrell. This was my favorite book of fairies, castles and true love as a child. When I was moving recently, I found my old dog eared copy with the cover long lost and I shrieked with joy.
Wow, that is a Very tough question. I think historical but then I think Outhouses. Then I think romance. Then I even thought of a few non fiction. Or what about one of my childhood or teen favorites.
But finally I decided on a recent find. Author Beth Revis – Full Speed to a Crash Landing. Love a smart woman adventure
I would probably die quickly, but would love to be inside the Firebird Chronicles by T.A. White or if I wanted to survive, then K.M. Shea’s Magiford Series.
Spent way too much time thinking about this but it would be so fun! Thanks for the giveaway and fun question.
I would like to visit Neal Asher’s Polity. The AIs mostly keep the government running well, space travel is pretty easy, and medical care is excellent.
Clean Sweep. I want to be respected for my gardening prowess.
Clean Sweep ….start Innkeeper at the beginning. I would love to visit Gertrude Hunt and Baha-Char.
I think I would like to live in the world of the inns. I would love to be an innkeeper. Or better yet, a permanent resident at an inn.
Clean Sweep. one of my favorites
Looking forward to more Hugh. However, I have a terrible crush on Arland…and I am so glad that he and Maud are together. So, Sweep of the Blade has my heart and I would love to spend time on Daesyn. Although, I would probably die in a couple of minutes….
Either the Innkeeper books (assuming I can live at Gertrude Hunt!) or prythian in any of the ACOTAR books
Which book? One of the later Dresden Files novels by Jim Butcher. Good urban fantasy in a seemingly normal world with just enough magic around the edges / under the covers to make things interesting and keep the Lone Gunmen conspiracy theory types up at night…
Growing up, I would have picked Pern in an instant. If I could ride a dragon*. Pern or Tamara Pierce’s Tortall. Now that I’m an old lady, I actually would love to be in Hidden Legacy, as long as I was not involved in House warfare. I absolutely adore your idea of the talent that can arrange things to generate/intensify emotion (my ADHD brain is totally brain-farting on my favorite ability**). I’d be a notable/significant and make buckets at interior design. A far cry from a dragon rider or Lady Knight.
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*I only want to be in a book or world of if I can be what I want to be. Especially a world without modern infrastructure, like indoor plumbing.
**I even just reread the scene in Cheryl Castellano’s family museum in Emerald Blaze. I was sure I remembered this talent being mentioned. Either I missed it or completely misremembered.
Honestly? Innkeeper sounds great. It’s got the potential for being very cozy with delicious food and I probably wouldn’t be in constant peril? Maybe?
Inkeeper world
Hm… Probably Hidden Legacy. It’s close to our world so I wouldn’t be a complete ignoramus… =)
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m hunting for a new desk, too. Mine is in a broken but annoyingly functional state, so I’m not rushing.
Book universe for me would be Lord of the Rings.
I would love to visit the world of The Case Files of Henri Davenforth by Honor Raconteur. Steam punk plus magic. I’m in!!
Dragon Riders of Pern Anne McCaffrey
always my favorite books growing up
There have been so many as time has passed. Just about any well written book I am reading in the present. All the Ilona Andrews books. Nevada Baylor series is so entertaining.
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen — a continuation of the world started in Garden Spells. Everyday magical talents, magical auras, family magic traits, magic happenings … and every day people & life … all exist. And sweet romances. I’ve always been in awe of how books just appear for the FMC and won’t go away, as she needs them.
Yay for the giveaway! All of your books have transported me (especially Hidden Legacy) but in the interests of broadening the data I will mention The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. Incredible world building!
First, please take care of yourselves❤️
Second, would love to be in Burn For Me world. As a Prime of course.
Too many choices to pick one! So I have to say I’d like to visit the world of whatever book I’m currently reading, but as an observer, not a hero. I don’t have the nerves to be on edge all the time.😃. Thanks for all the stories and take care of yourselves.
I would like to be transported to When Sorrows Come.
book: the princess bride
because…ROUS
The Ever Seas by LJ Andrews. I love the whole pirate viking magic vibe.
Cloud Atlas, would be my choice. From House Andrews – The Innkeeper series.
Do I get OP isekai powers to keep me alive for more than 5 minutes? Most of my favorites might be only slightly safer than Maggie’s. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold.
As much as I would love a Hugh snippet, I would rather that you guys have some time to rest and recuperate.
I thought about the contest query and nixed my first choice of a Hidden Legacy novel (my favorite series)because while I love the whole premise of magical talents connected to certain families and houses, I would probably be a dud and not be able to protect myself. Instead of HL, I would love to be transported to the Innkeeper novel and stay with Dina at Gertrude Hunt. Staying in a room designed for me and sampling Orro’s cooking sounds awesome!
Angels’ Blood (Guild Hunter Book 1) by Nalini Singh
I would love to be in the innkeeper world. It’s sounds so fascinating with the different galaxies.
Would love to be living in “The innkeeper series” universe. Magic, adventures, moving rooms and ever changing decor and best of all, Orro’s cooking ‘cos I am the ‘win my heart through my stomach kind of girl’. 😋 I experiment with the recipes you share and your “Edge” burgers are my go to for the golf course. Even my sister in Singapore swears by it for her kindergartners 😊.
Innkeeper, Sweep of the Heart. I already fantasize about being in that world! Even dream it sometimes!
I want to hang out in Magic Claims and see all the fun(??) stuff they find in the rest of the towers, as well as see the animals. Maybe I will even find my purpose!
The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken for the chance to meet some of my favorite characters (and maybe fly on a dragon) :3
Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson fantasy series, because I’m just delusional enough to believe that if magical creatures were real, I would be half-fae. Hidden Legacy comes in a close second though!
Absolutely in Gertrude Hunt Inn, with access to the kitchen
I’m very happy to see fellow BDH members choosing the Liaden universe or the Psy-Changling world (especially the bear clan!), but…
I pick Lois McMaster Bujold’s Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen in her Vorkosiganverse. I want to be Cordelia’s librarian…or possibly Miles’s, although Vorkosigan House on Barryar doesn’t appear in this particular book.
Or if I’m feeling more antisocial (all those kids in either household!), Robin McKinley’s Dragonhaven. I like the Institute.
I don’t need to enter, since I just recently won something, but I would love to stay at Gertrude Hunt, hang out in the Drifen room, eat Orro’s cooking, sneak out to visit Maude and family through the new door, and pop in at Baha char to say hi to the merchants.
I really Like the In Death books by JDRobb. I would Love to be an Inkeeper!
If I could be transported into a book, I think it would be into the Valdemar world of Mercedes lackey, around the mage winds trilogy. I love the world of the heralds and there is so much depth to the world she created!
I think I could be happy as a member of House Roake in “The Firebird Chronicles” by T. A. White.
Most other universes I enjoy to read about, I am not equipped to survive, much less thrive in.
Time Travelers Tales….
so many wrongs to be made right🤐😔
The next Innkeeper novel. I can sit and sip tea with Caldenia and eat delicious donuts while Dina and Sean save the universe.
well, I love amad Rogan, so I want to be in Burn for Me so I can punch that stupid Pyro!
I would love to be transported into Dina’s neighborhood in the Innkeeper books. I’d love to become her friend, and be able to watch all the shenanigans that happen in her Inn.
Can I be the Innkeeper at the new Inn in Daesyn, pretty please??? I’ll w*it for the book where House Andrews resolves that…and if they have someone else in mind, I’ll be an employee!
I can think of so many books I would like to sink into; Anne McCaffrey’s Pern, Dana Stabenow’s AlaskaPark, or Patricia Brigg’s wolves. When I was a kid, it was Oz. But after a year of illness and the joy the Innkeeper series brought me, I would love to stay at Gertrude Hunt, walk the streets of Baha-Char and walk around in Arland and Maud’s world. To arrange my own room ( or let Dina do it for me) would be a wonder. To open a door and be in another world, beyond belief. That is where I would go.
I love your worlds but it would have to be Lord of the Rings, if you make me pick just 1 of them it would be Return of the King, Hobbiton to see the Hobbits take down Saruman, Lothlorien and Rivendale and hopefully I would be valiant enough to brave the final battle. Not to mention seeing Aragorn rule.
Oh my gosh such a question. I would not survive if I was transported into any of my favorite books 🫣 I think maybe I’d have to choose Howl’s Moving Castle or House of Many Ways (I’d at least be able to handle the endless laundry since I already have that here).
Jayne (Krentz)Castle’s world of Harmony books. A psychic world with cute dustbunnies.
I will never forget my first reading of “Elfstones of Shannara” by Terry Brooks. I was thirteen, reading all night (without my parents knowing, lol) and fully consumed by the characters desperate journey to find a new Ellcrys while being hunted by an unstoppable demon. It was incredibly surreal when Blue Oyster Cult’s (Don’t Fear) the Reaper came on at 3am in the morning as I was reading some of the most intense scenes.
I have never been able to recreate that feeling of wonder and adrenaline, though many wonderful books have come close.
I think it’d be cool to be in the world of Paladin’s Grace by T Kingfisher. Any of the World of the White Rat, really, after the Clocktaur Wars are over. Picking Paladin’s Grace because it’s the least traveling and it’s after the paladins have joined the rats.
I would love to be in any of the Innkeeper books, but today will choose Sweep In Peace to sit & chat with Caledonia and eat Orro’s food.
My rather boring answer is The Hobbit. Been a fan of it since I could first read in English 🙂 (I”m from Nepal)
I think if I was to be in a fictional world, I’d pick Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changelings world.
As much as I love reading the Kate Daniel’s series and Blood Heir, I’m of the opinion I would not survive very long.
Thé Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
I want to be a werewolf in Bran Cornick’s pack in Patricia Briggs’ world. Bran is my all-time book crush.
I think I would like to be transported into Wilmington 2. I kind of think seeing all the prehistoric creatures and treasure would be so cool. Also seeing conlan in action.
I wouldn’t mind being dropped into any Jill Mansell book. She describes the English countryside or city center very well. I don’t ”get” one-third of the cultural references, but I always chuckle several times while reading and feel much more lighthearted after reading the story.
I would love to be transported into Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jousters series. I read it in middle school and have to do a reread every few years because I love it so much.
I would love to be transported to Harry Potter, because I grew up with Harry and who hasn’t imagined getting a letter and going to Hogwarts!
How about a fantasy world in which international postage is not an issue so non-US readers could enter this contest?
Sigh…. Or is that “Sob”?
Oh well, good luck to all.
And House Andrews: I hope next week is less “interesting” for you!
So many choices, but Innkeeper and Diane Duane’s Young Wizards please and thank you
i’m thinking the lightbringer series from Brent Weeks. being colourblind makes the magic system in that world speak to me personally.
Jim Butcher’s Alera Codex series, probably the 7th book, “First Lord’s Fury”. I’d like to know what happens next, and how they grow.
I feel like when I’m reading a book I want to be in that world and experience it. Realistically probably not a great idea cause I would die! haha Harry Potter would be fun cause it’s like the world now but with magic, as long as I had magic. That or innkeeper as long as I could travel to other planets!
Sweep of the Heart. I want to stay at the Inn and when better than while so much pageantry is happening.
Omg please oh please me I’m dying for Maggie 🫶🏽
Thank you wonderful authors for the opportunity
Very difficult to choose. Definitely not something realistic. Maybe Innkeeper? In the Inn, nice and cozy. 😃
Oooo what book do I want to be transported into? Honestly right now I think I want to go to the hundred acre woods and this hang out with Pooh and eat honey and maybe bounce around with tigger. That sounds nice
The Innkeeper books. They define “sense of wonder” for me.
I would love to be in Kate Daniels world!!!
I do not have to tell you now which book I am totally immersed in since we have discussed that already including my favorite quote! I just want you to know that I am promoting that book in every which way I can because I never get tired of reading it. I am half way through my 12th pass. It has become my comfort read. I read it during that hard time in November and again in January. Immersion during a trying time seems to work well…and I am trying to be patience for Hugh as well. Life is hard. Do what you can to make it easier to get through.
definitely the Innkeeper series!
The Swiss Family Robinson would be my book to fall into in real life. I’d be like a second Jenny Montrose and would live in Rock House or carve out and build a Rock House for myself. Second to that I’d love to find that we really did live in Dina’s world and the Inns are real.
Can’t wait for Hugh2!
I was obsessed with Little House on the prairie growing up. Imagine pretending to be a pioneer on my grandma’s farm during the summer. I realize now that it would be a lot of work but young me wanted nothing more than to be Laura in a covered wagon.
Kate Daniel’s magic bites
Out of all your worlds, I would *love* to be transported to the Innskeeper universe and tour the galaxy!
Best wishes on Hugh 2 – you both have got this.
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
Pern, from Anne McCaffrey …pretty much only for the fire lizards and dragons!
I would either be in the Hidden Legacy world or in the Game of Thrones world.
Ooh. Depends. Am I transported as me, because that would totally change what I could live through.
As me: I would love to hit up Mercy Thompsons world. Lots of neat lore, humor but I wouldn’t die cause I’m too soft. I could bystander as it’s pretty modern day setup.
As a character, I’d totally love to rock it in Kate’s world. I’d love to experience the magic flux and watch the power struggles. So I hope I’d be sensitive to magic to be able to feel the shifts.
LOTR!
That’s an easy one. Rada. Just for the flowers. Also, less likely to die than most of the more interesting story settings.
As far as House Andrew’s worlds, I would love to see Innkeeper and Hidden Legacy. Sorry, but I’m skipping Kate Daniels because it’s much too dangerous for me.
The kid in me would insist on going to Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the first fantasy book I ever read, and I’ve never stopped since then.
The book I’d want to be transported into is Hail Mary
Tough one. Outside of IA, the Lymond chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. Her Johnson Johnson series is also fun.
I would like to join the universe of Jessie Mihalik from Hunt the Stars. Sounds like there’s no marking (I’m a teacher) and a life of adventure. Sign me up!
I would choose Hidden Legacy! I’m already in Houston! lol
Illusion, Paula Volsky.
Pride and Prejudice. Lack of electricity annoying, but worth it for Mr. Darcy.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Forde. It’s an infinitely recursive choice, so that I can enter into any other book!
The Innkeeper world for me!!
100% Heaven Official’s Blessing because ive reread it a million times and the world is to die for
Thank you for taking the time to fill us in when you have so much going on in your lives.
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I love how time travel is relegated to Universities once corporations realize that they can’t loot the past for profit.
I also have mad love for whimsy! (I’m looking at you, Cuddles).
And if course there’s the HEA.
Innkeeper would be so awesome — a masterclass chef with skills in dealing with for sensitivities, magical inn, and a kind intuitive host — yes please!!
When I was 14, I read The Hero and the Crown for the first time and wanted to live in Damar. As many books as I’ve read since then, Damar looms large in my mind.
I love the Kate Daniels world, but, like another commenter, I would end up dying immediately. I love the Innkeeper and Hidden Legacy worlds, but I think I would be the safest in Dina’s inn, and I would love to be there during Sweep with Me and checking out all the drama. 🙂
So difficult to pick one! LOTR or GOT? Sanitation issues. Kate world? I am a pudgy 56-year-old – I wouldn’t last 10 minutes. Hidden legacy would be a hoot, but my strongest gift is snark. Not great for combat or defense.
I think I would love to be a retainer in house Vorkosigan. Watching Miles reorder the universe is awesome.
Hugh is a difficult bastard, but worth the effort. Thank you for persevering.
Ooooo….. I think if I could be ported to any world it’d probably be Innkeeper at the moment 🙂
It has also been a SUPER LONG WEEK where every day was like a Monday (after a weekend of small business taxes). Hope y’all manage a relaxing weekend!
Howls moving castle. hands down.
I have to take Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders of Pern series. And now I MUST NOT take time to read all 734 comments in front of mine….
Outlander, still a favorite series of mine, just love the whole thing.
Howl’s Moving Castle. I just want to live in a moving castle.
Gads! Any book?? So many!
Well…besides The Book of St Matthew…
Sweep of the Blade
I would love to be a pal of the dragons and Annwyl from G. A. Aiken’s dragon kin series. Any of the books. I want to attend a feast and dance with a dragon.
Eric Flint’s 1635
Being a historical reenactor I have the skills and all the things it takes to survive.
The Black Stallion was the first book that I think I remember transporting me to another world. Which is not what I think was asked now that I think about it. A book that I would want to be transported into is the Inn Keeper series.
for HA book it would be innkeeper for me .. just the chance to see all those amazing places… for a diff author it would be the In Death series by JD Robb with the futuristic world and nifty gadgets 😊
Hidden legacy series all the way! It’s the perfect mix of modern and fantasy. I would maybe survive in Kate Daniel’s series but I just don’t know enough to figure all these things out and I think I would be constantly spazzing…
I want to live at the Gertrude Hunt so badly! Orro’s cooking, Beast and the Ripper of Souls, trips to Baha Char…sign me up!
woman who rides like a man by Tamora Pierce hands down
It is So hard to choose just one.
Ummm I can’t pick just one.
Current: Innkeeper , the Inn, Bahachar ,Orro’s cooking etc. Or Hidden Legacy if I could have magic.
Old: One of the Dragon Riders of Pern. I mean come on, cool dragons. Or Valdemar. Having a Companion would be amazing. Dangerous, yes, but still.
Okay I’ll stop but there are so many more.
A hobbit in hobbiton for a small, food filled life with close friends. Part of a small changeling pack in Nalini Singh’s psy/changeling world. One of the shadowkittens in Cherie’s Sinclair books. Small life, close friends.
I still think being in the Innkeeper universe would be the best. Either that or Hidden Legacy. Both are near real world and involve “magic”. Love them both.
This is a hard one. I think I would be dead or a mundane extra in most of my favorite books and, as someone else mentioned in another comment, indoor plumbing is something I definitely want. so, I’m going to have to go with Murderbot/All Systems Red by Martha Wells. I think surveying planets would be fun and having a SecUnit to protect me would increase my chances of survival significantly.
Goodness! some of my favorite all time books is Aztec by Gary Jennings, Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel, Shogun by James Clavell, Murderbot series by Martha Wells, Class 5 series by Michelle Diener and of course all Ilona and Gordons books with my favorite being Sweep of the Blade and Fated Blades, so I would close my eyes and do Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe and hope to last long enought to enjoy the ride.
Thanks for the dreams and your hard work.
2025 has been a rough year so far. I’d love to be in the Innkeeper universe so that I can take a vacation at Getrude Hunt. To be specific, let’s say Sweep in Peace – first book that Orro joins the inn. As a foodie, I’d love to enjoy Orro’s lavish dishes. <3
Lord of the Rings. I’ve read the books every year since I was in high school.
I hope this week is easier on you all and thanks for the happiness your work always always gives me.
I would be transported to Dina Inn.. Universe Class Chef, my room any way I want it. Exciting visitors, or just chilling in the orchard.
At one point I remember someone asking an author if he wanted to ever visit the world he created and he said something along the lines of ‘Heavens no, now I need to sit and stare into the distance for awhile to recover after just considering it.”
That’s kind of how I feel about Kate’s world, honestly. Nothing personal. Lovely to peek in on. I need a moment to recover after seriously considering living there.
I wouldn’t mind living in Dina’s subdivision though. Possibilities of a full moon…….
Damar! From The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley. Read them as a teenager and they still live rent free in my head.
The Hobbit a close second. Peter Jackson did such an amazing job with the original trilogy that I could easily picture myself in it (maybe too easily because of the movies? Not enough mystery left)
I love your books, but I think I would want to go to Tamara Pierce’s Tortall universe.
Kate Daniel’s. I’d love to break into all those locked towers and take on the mysterious, guaranteed -to-be deadly contents.
I would want to go to all the places in the Immortal series starting with Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce. I loved her books as a child and still re-read them to this day. I love books with a strong female protagonist.
I would fall into “How the grinch stole Christmas.” A tale of someone who makes bad decisions but has a cute sidekick dog and becomes a good person at the end. Then everyone eats and sings. I need that right now!
I’d want to either be transported to the Kate Daniels world, or that of October Daye!
Innkeeper, I would love to visit Baja-char and stay at Gertrude Hunt!
Wild magic by Tamara Pierce because it obviously has to be a book where magic and dragons exists, but in thinking of Sookie’s surgery while sitting here petting my 17 year old cat, it also has to be a world where there are magic users that specialize in healing animals.
Only thing better would be if your animals lived as long as you did. I wouldn’t want her to out live me and then be alone, and I have no desire to live forever, but having your lifetimes tied would be just about right!
Good luck everybody from BDH member in sunny 😎 Australia.
The world hurts right now so I want to regress back to childhood and enter the magic world of Enid Blytons, The Magic Faraway Tree.
Innkeeper series for me! I especially love Sweep of the Blade.
I think I’d like to be transported into the Miles Vor Kosigan worlds. Feels like it would be cool to just be a normal person with all that advanced technology.
I would love to be one of the only human guests of Gertrude Hunt.
I would enter the Chronicles of Amber books by Roger Zalazny, as long as I had the ability of the main Character Corwin to Walk through shadows, and basically create your own world. I hope I spelled the author’s name correctly. it’s been years since I read it.
I would choose Burn For Me, to see all the events of the series happen from afar. eating popcorn
The Phantom Toolbooth…if one always ends up eating their words, I wouldn’t have to cook anymore!
I would love be in Sweep of the heart.I would love to be in the inn.
I would love to live in an Urban fantasy world. I would read fantasy fiction until I got bored, then turn on the TV and watch fantasy fiction on the news. My current favorites are a superhero slice of life story on royal road called Super Supportive by Sleyca and the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire.
If I have to pick a single book (instead of the entire series) I’m going to pick Sweep With Me- because we all need a treaty stay Holiday with some Happy right now. And explosions. Happy explosions.
Either sweep of the heart, or best friends promise by issy wardrobe they are my comfort reads. inn keeper is at the top of the list and sweep of the heart is my favorite of those but best friends promise is a close contender.
I think I would like to be a supporting character in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Oldskool!
I think I’d like to be in the Tamora pierce Alanna the lioness series. It was a series I absolutely loved as a kid.
“The Night Circus”!
Touchstone by Andrea k Host.
The first fantasy book I read, the Sword of Shannara and I hero-worshipped the Druid Allanon. This work was the gateway book to the genre. I read it when I was 11 or 12 and I May read it again. Terry Brooks the author just released another book on the series.
I’d love to take a visit to the world of J D Robb’s Eve and Roarke (just need to avoid becoming the latest murder victim 😉
I would be extraordinarily grateful should I possibly be selected as a winner
As many others have said, Innkeeper. Only if I can stay at Dina’s inn, though. A room tailored to my tastes and tasty food!
The first thing that came to mind was Sweep of the Heart and I would love to be an ad-hal and help Tony freeze those trees!
But as so many chose that I would also choose Tanya Huff’s “The Wild Ways”. You could get a last minute plane ticket whenever you need it with the family’s powers.
With the way things went at work today, it would be awesome to check into Gertrude Hunt for some pampering. Delicious food, comforting room, and hopefully no impending crises for Dina and Sean to worry about! 🤞
I’d want to be in Magiford Supernatural City (by KM Shea), but the caveat is I would want one of the powers. Probably a Shadow (cuz turning into a housecat onna whim would be fun lol) or Vampire Slayer (cuz who doesn’t want to be Buffy where not all supernaturals are evil)
(Anyone who hasn’t read these before they are low spice, but very fun)
putting Maggie next to my other signed books (and a burn for you arc) would be amazing!
Transport me into the Inn Keeper world please
This is hard because there are so very many to choose from.
But the first that really caught my attention was Ann MacCaffery’s Pern series. Any book from that one would be fun. Also, her Dinosaur Planet series. I would love to visit there and see just what other surprises the Thek might have left there.
Or Alan Dean Foster’s Sentenced to Prism. That world just sounds so very different that it would be interesting to explore there too.
Or maybe the Riddle Master’s world. There were so many interesting people and such a huge world to explore.
Kate Daniels Wilmington!
The Kate Daniels books. I’d probably die within minutes because I’d go poke at some weird object/thing to figure out what it was, but it would be a glorious few minutes! And hey, maybe I’d get lucky and the magic would activate some hidden gene that’d give me cool magic or something.
Transport me to…Sweep of the Heart. How could anyone not want to hang out in Baha-char?
Any of the Mercy Thompson books. I want to see the characters, in person.
Today I would jump into Beware of Chicken with both feet.
Animal Farm by George Orwell, and not for the normal reason. To put it nicely, I greatly loathe this book. I would make a great sacrifice to enter this book and make it useful and interesting in order to spare all the poor high school freshmen who are tortured by this books continued existence.
Innkeeper please! I want to experience Baha-Char and be a permanent guest like Caldenia.
Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston
I am sure your book will be fabulous and I can wait for Hugh because the anticipation is such joy. If I could be in any book, I’d be in the Innkeeper series. I would absolutely love to meet Orro and taste his cooking as well as visit with Dina. Hopefully we’d go to Baja Char and do some interesting shopping, meet interesting people (creatures?) and maybe I’d even find a secret magic of my own.
Too many to choose from, but my top 3 are the Valdemar series, because I always wanted my own Companion, the Pern series because who doesn’t want to ride a dragon, and the Innkeeper series, because you would meet so many other beings and of course, Magic!
Innkeeper, any book. If I can’t have my own inn and be an Innkeeper – then a permanent guest at Gertrude Hunt.
First and foremost — take care of yourselves and the animals!
I think if there were only one book I could read over and over with a world I’d want to live in, it would be A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. There’s so much hope and love in that book that fights the conformity taking over the universe
The Pern books (Anne McCaffrey) were my childhood fantasy, but I am too old to be a rider and do not want to be a farmer, cook, drudge etc.
I would not want to be a poor, ordinary mortal in any world.
I think I would like to retire to the world on Heinlein’s The Cat who Walked Through Walls. There are lots of labor saving inventions.
It’s been a rough week for my family, too. A friend was in a bad car accident. My brain is fried and I want to be warm, comfortable, with delicious food nearby so, for right now, Innkeeper; preferably when all the characters are visiting.
I would be in the third Wilmington book exploring and helping to build a restructured pack.
Any of your worlds but I would need to up my bad assery to live in Kate’s world. Also Honor Raconteur’s The Case Files of Henri Davenforth which is a transport story too 😁
Hope you can rest this weekend and next week is better. Yesterday was the first day of spring 🌺🌷🌻🌼🪷🪻🌹
Pride and prejudice for me. Although I think I specifically would want to be in the world of the 2005 adaptation. No zombies, please.
the world of Ghost Mountain Shifters is what first came to mind. Followed by KD’s. 🙂
Hidden Legacy world.
Such a good question!
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson was one I read last year that I got so sucked into it was hard to adjust back to reality after reading it! So so good.
Ooh fun!
I would love to visit the Kinsman Universe. The vividness sounds incredible. I long for a summer in the provinces just like Matias and Ramona.
right now Legends and Lattes or be at the Jumble in Lake Silence
Emma by Jane Austen- the way she wrote that novel with so much attention to detail regarding all the characters living in and around Highbury makes such an impression that every time I read the novel and finish it, I get a little sad like I’ve moved away from friends.
In junior high I went to school that had a library. I discovered fantasy and science fiction. I devoured all of Andre Norton books Especially Time Traders. That was the beginning
I’d have to choose Kate Daniel’s world. I think I know enough mythology to be useful.
Any of the Psy-Changeling books from Nalini Singh. Especially if I can find a buff leopard to cuddle up to.
The book that I would like to be transported in is Eragon by Christopher Paolini , because I really like how the world is built,And I really love dragons.
I really have enjoyed all of the books by KM Shea that are set in Magiford. These include several urban contemporary fantasy trilogies. Great world building, fantasy, with suspense, but also humor. There is some non-spicy romance that evolves organically within the plot lines.
I’ve always wanted to live in Narnia. The Innkeeper world would be wonderful, too. And I would love to visit Kresley Cole’s New Orleans and shop at Loa’s emporium.
Ooh! I think this might be my favorite giveaway yet!
I would love to live in the Innkeeper universe, so Clean Sweep would be my likely choice. However, I had twin girls 6 months ago, so I would also settle for The Pout-Pout Fish book, because the world of talking fish seems pretty cool too.
Which book would I want to be transported into?
“BeastMaster” by Andre Norton.
Why?So that I could stand in the middle of a prairie created by, and look up at the sky created by the very first author I ever wrote a letter to.
I would, OF COURSE! be waving frantically, in hopes that she would see me.
And yes, she wrote back! I still have that letter tucked away. Closest I ever came to biting Daddy, when he tried to throw it away!
Clean Sweep or any of The Innkeeper series
Siddharta by Herman Hesse
Penric’s Demon.. love the world in which it’s set
I would be transported to Wilmington in the Magic Claims book.
Innkeeper books for sure, as I would love to have “eggs three ways” and have a relaxing weekend.
Thank you for the opportunity!
I think I would want to pop into hidden legacy. so familiar and so alien at the same time!
The Chronicles of the One series by Nora Roberts.
I honestly would love any from the Kate Daniels series; here’s why: every time I get the chance to discuss your books with my D&D friends we LOVE talking about the problem solving that would be necessary and how cool would it be to have that sort of setting in a campaign. It’s created a lot of memorable conversations and great memories with my core friends.
the current state of things in the world has me longing to be in the preservation alliance in the murderbot books.
Kate Daniels off the top of my head. There are so many lol.
The Land of Oz. My favorite series as a child.
So many of the worlds I read are tough and challenging, so I understand why we are all choosing Innkeeper. While Dina has her personal challenges, the world is essentially stable and we can live there without too much danger (unless we shop at Costco) so I follow the crowd and choose the Avalon Subdivision…..
I would love to live in the Hidden Legacy world!!!
At this point in my life, I’d love to live in the shire and be a happy little hobbit without a care in the world beyond what I’m going to eat for second breakfast. So, Middle-Earth for me, post Return of the King.
I hope your next week is more peaceful. 🙂
If I were transported to a book, I would want it to be any of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonrider of Pern series. No matter how old I get, I still wish I could ride a dragon!
I would pick Kate Daniel’s. the versatility of the magic and how diverse the affects of magic is on people is amazing. I think that hidden legacy would be number two.
And given how much I love dragons I would do puffles without looking before the leap as thord choice.
Super syked for the two confirmed books and wanted to say congrats again.
I’d be transported into Robin McKinley’s Sunshine. It’s a comfort read from 2003, and I have large chunks of it memorized. Excited to read This Kingdom!
The Case files of Henry Davenport by Honor Raconteur would be my world of choice, a wonderful balance of MAGIC IS REAL!! and modern day conveniences.
I’d definitely want to be transported to Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling world, specifically Shield of Winter or Shards of Hope.
Guild Hunter series. Any book. I just adore Nalini Singh writing and love Elana and Raphael 🙂 Angels Blood if I have to pick a title
James and the giant peach. I want to eat that peach!
Take me to Narnia! I want to voyage with Reepicheep.
The worlds that are fun to read about and worlds that would be safe to live in are not necessarily the same. I do really enjoy the world building in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga.
Hidden Legacy so I could hire Nevada Baylor to track down everything my movers stole since in this universe no one helps. 🤷🏻♀️
The Night Circus
Innkeeper, the introvert in me loves the solitude and the extrovert loves the people that would come and go. I love the puzzles of solving people, what they want, what they need, how to make their lives a little better.
The Eyre Affair – that way I could visit everywhere!
I would either choose Michelle Sagara’s Elantra series or the Innkeeper series. I would love to stay in a living home with great food I didn’t have to make myself.
I’m going to say the Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik. It’s the start of a series that’s “YA magic school romantasy” on the surface but sooo much deeper than that when you dive in, and just awesome world-building throughout.
I know this going to sound a little cliche, but it would be The Hobbit. It was my first fantasy novel that I read while waiting out the FL summer in a nice air conditioned library. Plus the librarian was really nice and did not mind a 12 year old me camping in her library all day as long as I was quiet 🤫
The Vorkosigan universe by Lois McMaster Bujold, planet Sergyar. Mostly because I’d really enjoy seeing what kind of world Cordelia is making there. It just sounds like Beta colony without the pretentiousness. That’s kinda my ideal world to live in.
Innkeeper world. But only if I would be privy to the secret that aliens exist and not just an ordinary human.
The Artifactor series any time after book one because magic and dragons!
Wishing House Andrews a safe, healthy and completely uneventful restful weekend!
May your troubles abate and your inspiration return!
Book Universe if I had mad sword AND crossbow skills – Lord of the Rings.
But, alas, I have no such skills and I am HIGHLY attached to indoor plumbing and my hot water heater……..
Sending peace, health and safety to you all!
If I could be transported into a book, I would want to be transported into the world of the kinsmen. I’d love to go see the dahlias and taste pink wine and passion scones.
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
Harry Potter!
Moon Called(Mercy Thompson) by Patricia Briggs
I would go in Rosa candida from Ava Audur Olafsdottir. I would like to visit the garden in the book! I just like the vibe of this book and this author writes so well.
Innkeeper world! Meet all the characters. Watch Oro go into a “woe is me” moment while stuffing my face w his lemon muffins. Go into an off world adventure w Dina, Sean, Beast and Marais. So many to meet, so many worlds to see, galaxies to save and evil aliens to beat.
Sweep with Me, I love the plotlines and would like to visit Bahachar for bubbly drinks with Dina and Adira.
Ruby Fever. Life can throw challenges, but as long as you surround yourself with people who love well, support each other, and have a good moral compass, the darkness isn’t as dark. Plus, I like indoor plumbing, climate control, and modern medicine. I wouldn’t do well in a historical.
The Innkeeper Chronicles Volume II. I maintain that this is 1 book, so it’s not cheating! (If there’s ever an omnibus, I’ll start using that as my choice. I love them all!) And I didn’t just pick that because you wrote it. I do really want to live at the inn!
This is an amazing giveaway! Thank you very much for being so kind and generous to us! 🤞🏻🥰🤗
Hidden Legacy for me! Makes me a little homesick for Houston even though I’ve been away for almost 28 years!
Oh, man – How do I pick??? I love the idea of smart magic inns and having magic, but then there’s the possibility of being an Animal mage and talk to animals – I want a Bunny… And then there’s The Sea Wicche Chronicles with Wicches, shifters, demons, oh my!!!
I first read Dune as a preteen and even before any of the movies I was totally transported into Arrakis. I still fall into that book.
Innkeeper! Maybe there’s room at Dina and Sean’s inn for me? 🙂
sorry everything is so stressed this week.
As far as world, I’d say currently Welcome to the Multiverse series by Sean Oswald. The best litrpg series currently out in my opinion.
I I could be transported into any book it would be the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. When I first read this book as such a young thing I immediately thought that I wished I had written it because it was so perfect. I would fit perfectly in that crazy world so full of things that make perfect sense and no sense at all. I would bounce around full of complete anxiety like the rest of the characters. Me and Zaphod.
burn for me was so good I picked it up and didn’t put it down until it was done.
I would love to be transported to Anne McCaffrey’s Pern, where I would bond with a golden queen dragon and have the ability to speak to and hear all the dragons like Lessa.
OMG I WOULD LOVE ONE!!!
Wilmington stories!!
Any Kate Daniels book.
I’d love to be in the Kate Daniels world or any of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern books.
Lothaire by Kresley Cole. I own the print copy and the audiobook, it is a favorite to go back to.
Take care of yourselves! Take some time to regroup! The Horde will still be here.
My low tolerance for personal risk complicates my book world selection. I love reading about all the tumultuous book worlds, but living there…eeeek! Much as I am eager to see more of Elara and Hugh’s (Kate’s) world or read about the mysterious Maggie, they’re much better imagined than experienced. I’d be the one cowering in the closet with the blanket over her head.
Innkeeper seems a delightful, balanced pick…go through a door of the Inn to adventure in another world and come back in time for a delicious Orro dinner.
But I also love hard sci fi, where the tech is mature, like the Murderbot universe or Miles Cameron’s Artifact Space.
Gosh I love reading…all these wonderful worlds I can visit from the comfort of my sofa.
If I could be transported, it would be Gertrude Hunt. I want to visit the inn, meet Dina and Sean, find my perfect room awaiting me, step through the door to baha-char, experience the dining room, taste Oreo’s food, and sit overlooking orange sea. I could go on…
I’d like to be transported to any of the Innkeeper books at Dina’s Inn. I’d love to go to Baha Char and all the other places in the galaxy and know that Gertrude Hunt was there waiting for me along with Dina, Sean, Orro, Beast, Olesaerd, and of course Caldenia.
Normally I would jump at the chance to enter Kate’s world, but sadly my own week has been pretty chaotic too and I need something with much lower stakes and much higher comfort levels. I think one of Sarah Wynde’s Tassamara novels fits the bill right now.
Clean Sweep and the rest of the Innkeeper books. The chance to converse with a Space Chicken is #goals.
I would really like to experience the world of The Others series by Anne Bishop.
The Innkeeper Chronicles. I love that series. Magic, Space Travel. Modern technology and cool new worlds! The Gertrude Hunt Inn seems like a great place to visit.
Red Storm Rising
if transported into a book it would be Hodsons Little Princess. in these scary economic times,war in Ukraine, children in so many countries facing devastating circumstances, it’s wonderful to think about someone who lost everything including family being able to find joy and hope and a happy ending!
I would love to enter the Penric and Desdemona series by Lois McMaster Bujold because I find her world building incredibly believable and think I would know what’s going on, as well as like the vast majority of any characters I encountered. Thanks for consideration!
Innkeeper, Valdemar, TA White’s Phoenix worlds, so many!
I love all your books, but Innkeeper is what I grab for those horrible, awful, no good days. Bad things happen, but Dina has such a caring POV, that colors the entire story, that the whole series feels like a hug.
Since the first time I read about it…I’ve wanted to live in the Baylor Compound in Ruby Fever. Just something about the way it was introduced spoke to me…and now I want to live there!
Shelley Laurenston, especially if I’m having a bad week. Reading the Honey Badger Chronicles always brings a smile!
The Innkeeper world, but only if I’m allowed to know about the inns.
So many wonderful book worlds, including yours. My inner teenage bookworm keeps whispering that I need to be a Herald from Valdemar (Mercedes Lackey), so I’m going with that.
Hmm… an interesting question if you take it seriously. Truly terrible things happen in so many book worlds… If I really needed to choose, I’d probably have to go with something relatively safe. But the more I think about it, those worlds are often just this world with hidden magic communities, so I could end up as a muggle still living a regular life. All that said, I’ve decided I would pick Brent Weeks’ “Lightbringer” world. However Hidden Legacy would be my top choice if I was guaranteed to have magic 😀
Clean Sweep! Orro, Beast, mystery, magic, adventure and intergalactic shopping 💕
I love reading about characters overcoming dangerous places/times/situations but wouldn’t want to live in that. So I would say I would love to be a witch in the Harry Potter universe after the wizarding war was over.
A court of thorns and roses by Sarah Maas. That book introduced me to fantasy worlds and led me to my favorite author(s) Ilona Andrews. Never thought I’d be attracted to this genre but sure glad I took the leap.
I am packed and ready to go to Fort In the Woods. I can handle the hike from Penderton. I have survived so many renovations it already seems like home destination. So some people don’t speak English, no problem. Goodwill transcends the barriers. My faithful K9 is a creature of comfort, but as long as he can see me (the emotional support person) he is happy to sleep on a hard surface. I will load up a supply of chocolate and almonds. Looking forward to the hard work and good times.
Honestly, right now I’d join the Inkeeper world. You don’t have to leave your house to still meet awesome people and have great adventures. My agoraphobia is not great at the moment and that just sounds like heaven.
Life takes precedence, always! Take care of the family first.
I agree with the one person who said Anne McCaffrey’s Pern was a childhood love, but adult me would prefer Houston of Hidden Legacy. Not sure I’d fare well in a not modern society, and being able to still have powers would be amazing!
Has to be a toss-up between Innkeeper Chronicles and Hidden Legacy.
I think I would like the kinsman universe. I would not fit well as a person with a wheelchair in the other universes. I really like the kinsman universe, that I have just finished rereading. Or RJ Blain’s vigilante librarian series, which I am reading now!
Thanks for the giveaway!
If I could be transported into a a book it would be the Innkeeper series or The Others by Anne Bishop
Super old school, but I was introduced to fantasy through Mercedes Lackey in middle school. I want to see Valdemar, visit K’Treva, soak in a hot tub, meet some Heralds and Hawkbrothers, experience Mindspeech with a Companion, and have Need tske over my body to fight a baddie.
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern
Dragon Riders of Pern no hesitation. Those were the books that opened the entire universe of fantasy for me. Plus, I’m not entirely certain I could survive in Kate’s world 😆
Anne of Green Gables. I was seven. Reading enabled me to live in other worlds.
for one of yours I’d live to visit Dina and sample some of Orros cooking. I wonder if that ocean could be made safe for swimming?
for someone else’s Anne McCaffrey Pern with it’s dragons. maybe I’d get lucky and impress a fire lizard.
From you series, I would love to be an Innkeeper and be able to shape my surroundings at will and visit with species from all over the world. not to mention having doorways to other worlds. I also love the Harmony series by Jayne Castle. I really want my own dust bunny!
The Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner–would love to watch the shenanigans unfold.
I wouldn’t last a minute in Kate’s world. Or any of the others (except maybe innkeeper–but I’d die fat and happy eating Orro’s food).
I think I already am in the Innkeeper’s series. I’m one of the ignorant humans who doesn’t realize there’s something wrong at the local inn.
Hope next week is better for you.
Transported into a book? It would have to be one that involves a lot of great food! So I’m going with A Bear Called Paddington. Adventures in London! Giant breakfasts cooked by Mrs. Bird! Lots of time to pursue random hobbies and bun sharing!!!
“The Guncle”
Fun, Funny, and Fabulous!
There are so many book worlds, that I would love to visit – but I would probably not survive any of them. Because of that, I think I might pick the non-fiction Hero Dogs and the founding of the National Search Dog Rescue. I just finished reading this book this week and it was such an interesting story. It was both heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. I would love to go back and meet some of the incredible dogs at the heart of this story.
I would love to visit Gertrude Hunt in the Innkeepers world!
I would like to end up in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Pure magic.
I hope this weekend is restorative and next week is a smooth one for you!
I would love to be an Innkeeper’s child! But outside of House Andrews books, I’d like to be a Hobbit in the Shire, it seems much more peaceful than some of the other books I read! (And I’m less likely to die there, I think)
Sorry you had such a rough week. I hope you get to recharge this weekend!
So hard to pick one book. I might have to go with Fire Touched from Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series, just so I could see Mercy hoist the flaming walking stick in the air after fighting the troll on the bridge. I love how that scene was described. Plus I’d get to fight a volcano god. Pretty cool. Ha ha.
Definitely the world of Innkeeper!
Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes. A plot with no anxiety, endearing characters and lots of coffee. I’d like to say Kate’s Atlanta but honestly, I wouldn’t make it 10 minutes.
I’d like to be transported into Burn for Me, be Nevada’s friend and spend time with her and her family. I’d like to have a unique magical talent, too, where I could mimic any known talent for a day.
Not in USA.
My choice would be Darkover. I always find myself well and truly immersed in the world when re-reading the books. Definitely would want to have some form of laren (psychic abilities).
The Others. Not a fan of the heavy tropes but love the world idea.
Fourth Wing
I would love to be transported to the world of Scholomance after Galadriel has built a few of the Golden Enclaves as a mundane who believes in magic.
Love those books!!!
If I could be transported into a book, it would be ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ because I’d love to go to Hogwarts.
So glad Sookie is recovering!
Innkeeper, please. I would love to taste Orro’s cooking and see all there is to see…
I would love to be in Seanan McGuire’s InCryptid world, and I would absolutely want to be aware of the cryptids. 🤩
right now I would like to be transferred into the world of Star Trek where I could be helped of all ailments by a kind Bones in 48 hrs max
Jacky Leon series Oath Sworn..KN Banet. most series I enjoy, the world is a lot tougher than I would choose for myself… happy to be a visitor but wouldn’t want to be a full time resident
I would love to be part of M.K. Eidem’s Tornian series. Space and HEAs.
Fire and Song by Bryce O’Conner minus the invading aliens that are about to end all human life. I think the idea of Combat Assistance Devices (CAD) that evolves with a user is a cool concept.
If I could transport into a book I’d go into Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series.
Wishing you a good weekend and better week!
Any book from Hidden Legacy, and PLEASE give me magic powers!
Most of my favorite books lack indoor plumbing. But I also think it would depend on who you were in the story. I mean, I wouldn’t want to be a non-wizard in a Harry Potter story.
If I was dropped into a story right now, I’d probably be pretty happy as one of Bilbo’s neighbors in the Hobbit. In my 20s? It’d be any book with the possibility of space exploration
Things have been so rough this year that I’d just like to be transported into the world of Winnie The Pooh. The Hundred Acre Wood sounds so peaceful with the honey and the friends. {sigh}.
Tamora Pierce. Magic. A little danger and adventure but maybe not too much.
I would want to see a Tayledras vale from Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar Series.
When I was a girl, I used to dream of visiting the Emerald City. Now, I would love an afternoon in Vorbarr Sultana, assuming I have some Barrayaran marks in my pocket. Lately, though, spending a few hours napping in Gertrude Hunt’s medward seems like it might be refreshing.
Oh, I hear you… had my own issues this week… but Friday is here and the weekend is short, so we have to make the best of it! 🙂
Just keep your chin up and a prayer in your heart!
To be honest… I have a few favorites to be isekia’ed into
1st – The Chronicles of Narnia
2nd – Kate Daniels Series
3rd – Lord of the Rings
4th – Harry Potter
5th – Hidden Legacy
Hmm…if not from House Andrews, then maybe Jeaniene Frost’s vampire series, or A Court of Thorns and Roses. Honestly, I picture myself in the Kate Daniels world *all the time* but very self-aggrandizing and a bit delusional to think I would be at all competent there.
Wicked, Ugly, Bad by Cassandra Gannon. A better than 50/50 chance I’d be able to identify my soulmate on sight, plus the possibility of magical powers? Yes please.
Island of Ghosts, by Gillian Bradshaw
Anne McCaffrey’s Crystal Singer, what a crazy life that would be
I mean, Innkeeper has Orro AND Baha Char and that’s really all I need…
Although Starless Sea had an infinite Library with a magical food delivery service and that would also be pretty great!
I would like to be transported into one of the Innkeeper books or one of the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey.
Transport me to the Innkeeper series to explore new worlds, eat fabulous food, and meet Helen and Maud and Sean and Dina. Or, to Robin D. Owens Celta to interact with all the cats from Zanth to Peaches.
Thanks for the giveaway! I hope you find more ease in the week ahead.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
When I was around 9 years old, I had a book that I read so many times it literally fell apart and my mother had to throw it away when I was about 12. It was called On Golden Hill or something. It was about a young girl who lived in San Francisco and traveled into wine country for a holiday. I would get lost in that book for hours, walking the fields and talking with the characters. I wanted to go to Stamford because she went to Stamford (I had no concept of the cost at that age) and begged my parents to take my to Northern California to visit. It must be out of print because I looked everywhere for that book and never found it. I loved that book.
My abso favo book is Sweep of the Blade.
Pride and Prejudice or Magic Strikes or On the Edge!
Lord of the Rings-Return of the King
My first read was 47 years ago and I still read it with the same joy.
The Outlander series. Many rereads-the research, world building is fabulous.
The Innkeeper Chronicles. Dina is a favorite!
I wish someone would pay me to read!
I’m feeling nostalgic, so I’ll say Tamora Pierce’s Alanna series, and I’d like to be in George’s crew, but maybe as an agent in the court. And Gifted, of course.
Howl’s Moving Castle.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, I love a well thought out chaotic rambling city, and the characters that are trying to make it a better place (either because they care or because they got an offer they can’t refuse, literally).
Brandon Sanderson’s Tress of the Emerald Sea. Sailing on seas made of spores- absolutely wild!
Frontier Magic by Patricia C. Wrede
I would love be a Hobbit in the Shire from The Hobbit.
But I grew up dreaming about riding dragons in Pern, so I would love to be in the slightly more progressive era of The Skies if Pern so they are relearning all the technology and there are dragons and fire lizards.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Hello chocolate! Lol
My adult self has other options, but I decided to let the child in me have a say. 🤣
I didn’t like reading. Then I had to read A Wrinkle in Time. The 1st time I read all night to finish a book. Then the Outsiders. Then Judgement on Janus. I don’t know what happened to me, I started to read…then it was like I woke up when I was done. I was 13 going on 14. 58 Years later I still look for that kind of book and they are rare. House Andrews has taken me there as well.
So many fictional worlds I’d love to visit but I think I’d have to go with Damar, beloved desert land of Harry Crewe from The Blue Sword.
the guild hunter series by nalini s. I’m not ready to explore a magical world but a parallel/ alternate world of people with special abilities and various species interacting in semi contemporary NYC is for me. I guess you can’t take the city out of this chica.
Oooooo, excellent question!! So hard to choose, but I think Gryphon by Crawford Kilian because cloud castles and domes under the ocean and diving into the database… Childhood reads can really stick with you.
Easy. JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (ok, so it’s a trilogy). I have imagined myself as a character in those books since I was 12 years old (I’m currently in my 50’s). My older brother bought me my first set of Tolkien for my 10th birthday. I read them over 12 times before I went to high school. I have reread them and reread them many times over the years and rejoiced when my children began reading them at about the same age as I did. I always imagined myself as a “fly on the wall” sort of character in the books. I didn’t want to disrupt or influence the course of the story but I wanted to be there to witness the events unfolding, to share in all of the emotion that the books evoked.
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. I’m pretty sure I cried more reading that book than any other.
I always thought it would be nice to visit Tortall, from the Tamora Pierce books
Innkeeper for me! I’d want to be one of those humans who is in the know and therefore it gets to interact with all the cool different species, but I’m going to be relatively safe. I love reading hidden legacy, Kate daniels, the others, etc, but those would be too terrifying to actually be in.
I think the Innkeeper world!
In the hopes of surviving in the most realistic way, I’d go with Inn Keeper
Burn For Me. It would be very interesting to know if I would have any powers and where on the scale of power I would fall or if I would be powerless but support those that do.
If I could enter any universe, I’d go into Hidden Legacy. I’m assuming of course that I’d get to be a Prime and not just some rando in the universe though…
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells. That’s the first of the Raksura books. There are loads of different races and cultures and it’s fun reading a series with no humans to speak of.
Alternately, Beware of Chicken by CasualFarmer. Xianxia for people sick of the pretentiousness of xianxia. Pure fluff 90% of the time.
Super Powerds by Drew Hayes totally transported me. All 13 books kept me enthralled. The world building was almost as good as House Andrews.
Tamora Pierce – Tortall Universe (probably in the Tricksters Era)
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Pope. I young girl is orphaned and sent to live with a bachelor uncle in upstate NY. There she meets and interacts with ghosts of her ancestors and hears about their experiences during the American Revolutionary War. Their stories and her present day life turn out to be linked.
I have always liked the idea of friendly ghosts. Also I can’t imagine I would be any good in an action/adventure/thriller.
I recently finished The Otherwhere Post by Emily J Taylor and it was such a unique magic system and world. It’s all I can think about lately!
pride and prejudice, because it seems like I’d have the most chance of servicing.
Oh it would really depend if I had any kind of power – if not, I might as well stay where I am. If I did, I’d love to explore the Edge. If I was strong, then ok, maybe even the Weird, but I doubt I’d be politically savvy enough to survive unless I was really strong and made good friends fast….
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. It’s a world full of kindness and small pleasures, and that just sounds really amazing right now.
A deadly education by Naomi Novak!
Mercy thompson cause it’s still mostly normal with some mystical aspect that one would be ignorant to mostly
Sorry.. too many to read before me.
“Hot and Badgered” by Shelly Laurenston.
Her honey badger shenanigans are epic. I laughed so hard I cried and groaned from my abs aching.
Bramble Burn by Autumn Dawn. She is new to me and was described as a “light Kate” so I read a sample, enjoyed it, and am on my second reading as the story kept pulling me through it. A magic gardener with monsters, dragons, wolves, and family issues.
dragonsong by anne maccaffrey the first book in her Dragonriders of Pern series that i read at 14. it was the first book of the first trilogy i read and it started my dragon collecting, the series changed so much over the length of the series and it had fantasy and science fiction my favorites
Ooo. Where would I actually want to go… today I think it would be Pippi Longstocking.
Oh my first thought was how does one pick just one? There are soooo many worlds ! Then it came to me. Narnia. This was my first experience of going into another world- both a story about going into another world and one that completely sucked me into it. The fall of 1972 Mrs. Aikens my second grade teach began the school year by reading Tye Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe to the class everyday. I had to get the book as I could not wait! This story was so transportive for me I still loved listening to her in class! Narnia I want to go to Narnia please.
Ooooooo Such a good question!
I think it would depend on what abilities I would have once I got to the book land. Is it a universe where magic exists and I discover that I have the ability to do amazing things with magic? YAY! Or do I just have something else to long for and be jealous of?
Assuming that the me that I am now, is the same me that I would be in the book, same knowledge, abilities, personality…
Id say the Innkeeper series, because theres so many cool things to learn and do and all you really need to be is ‘in the know’. If I have to pick just 1 book, rather than the series, ummm, Sweep with Me, if for no other reason than because I want to see the Treaty Stay decorations!
There are many books I like, but I don’t know that I would want to live in their world. But Lynsay Sands Argeneau books. I can see being a relatives of the family with millennium old relatives from Atlantis. Love Bites would be my choice.
The Lorax— I want to be a part of a story with the message of personal responsibility and I want to experience the feeling of hope ❤️
As much as I love Fantasy, and I am an avid Role Player. I wouldn’t want to live there, ditto my favorite space operas. Though maybe the hobbit if I could stay in the Shire and marry a sweet hobbit husband. Otherwise one of Georgette Heyers books where a kind competent man who has enough money to live comfortably and not fantastically gorgeous might find that marrying a similar woman would be to his taste
Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde- which sequel has the book jumper technology all hashed out?
Well. That one.
Then I would have dinner and donuts with Caldenia and Orro.
And hop onto a private island with some sort of real frozen fruit and rum beverage in time to watch the sunset.
I’m sure the Cheshire Cat could arrange it.
And as I recall there would be no such thing as a stomach ache or hangover unless it furthered the plot😂 more fruity rum drinks please!
Looking forward to all the new stuff coming out – thank you for writing it all!
I would really like to jump into the Innkeeper – as long as I am one of the people in the know!
If I could enter a book’s universe, I think it would be a toss up between Hidden Legacy (sincere answer; not sucking up) and Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao. I think in HL, I wouldn’t want to be a combat prime. I think the perfect level for me would be Nari and Cornelius Harrison, if Nari wasn’t assassinated. Water Moon has whimsical Ghibli vibes, highly recommend!!
Innkeeper as long as I can visit an inn!
Any Georgette Heyer book. I know that’s not very sci/fi/fantasy of me,but….
For Ilona Andrew’s worlds,I would like to be magical in the world of Hidden Legacy. But a non-combat mage.
Kate Daniels world for me. That series has been one of my favorites since childhood.
So hard to choose! Harry Potter if I didn’t have to be a muggle!
I always wanted to go to Anne McCaffrey’s Pern, walk the hatching ground and Impress a dragon.
I would be a permanent guest at Gertrude Hunt, of course.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I want to dance in the Triwizard Yule Ball, twirl around under the floating candles, ask Nevell for a dance.
I have too many choices! I’ve been reading SF/F for over 50 years so picking just one feels impossible. One of the first I read that I “fell” into was a “A Wrinkle in Time.” But for comfort reading I find myself going back to Kate and friends with Dina being a close second. 🙂
Lord of the Rings.
Ok, I know that is pretty boring, lots of people probably picked it. But I first read LOTR back in the 70s and I spent $50 in 7th grade with all the money I had saved in my life up to that point to buy the hardback boxed set. My first book purchase ever!
I wanted SO badly to go to the Third Age of Middle Earth as a young teen. Sometimes I wanted to wake up as one of the characters in the books (Eowyn), other times I wanted to be myself. Really, I didn’t care as long as I could go there. I was young enough when I first read these books that I actually thought they were true stories, more a history than fiction. I really thought I would go there someday.
I’m still waiting…….
Kate Daniels world. I’d love to be a wizard (family to Luther) with some kick ass powers.
Dragon Flight from the Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McAffrey. It was my first fantasy book I read in my teenage years. When I finished the book I didn’t want it to end. Then I cried because I would never know what it was like to fly with a dragon. That’s how caught up in the book I was and I became an avid reader ever since!
Burn For Me! I’d love to be a Prime
oh there’s too many to choose from. but if I could go anywhere? I think Lord of the Rings. I’ve desperately wanted to be a Rider of Rohan since I first read the books 45 years ago. when the movies came out & I found out that most of the riders filmed were women, I knew it was my destiny. I am meant to be a Rider of Rohan. I even have a woman Rider of Rohan tattooed on my back. ask nicely & I’ll show you pictures 😊
The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I’m tired of trying to figure out what to fix the kids to eat because they are driving me crazy. Eating a bunch of fruit and a few snacks out in the woods by myself before taking a long nap and getting up looking amazing without having to do anything other than fight your way out of bed sounds like the way to go.
always wanted magic powers of some sort or be a shape shifter so the kate daniels books would be interesting
The Children’s Blue Bird was one of my mother’s childhood books that we read together. It started my love of fairy tales and I would give anything to be transported back into the book, to be with my mother and her childhood.
Innkeeper, for sure. I need to try Orro’s foods just once
Innkeeper World. I don’t think I would want to live there forever like Cladenia, but to be a guest at Gertrude Hunt for a few nights would be spectacular. Have a few unforgettable gourmet meals made by the amazing Orro. Maybe catch a few glimpses of a few vacationing Vampires from House Krahr sparing in the yard. Then I would top off the best vacation of my life, with a quick guided shopping trip to Baha Char, where I just might get to see a few Koo-ko Space Chickens debating in the streets, and pass by the Merchants Guild and hope to see how fluffy Cookie’s fur really is.
I would probably choose the Hidden Legacy universe as it still has all of the perks of current day while also having magic.
Ohhhh! Something in space – maybe the a Vorkosigan book – Civil Campaign would be a fun one!
I would love to be in Tamora Pierces “Beka Cooper” series! I’d live the medieval life of my dreams there in the heart of Tortall.
David Gemmell Waylander. Got me hooked on fantasy fiction . Any of David Gemmells books actually – he was such a great storyteller ❤️
Too many to choose from, but I will go with TA White’s Rules of Redemption and I would take my granddaughter with me because she would love to met JIN. It would be so much fun to see her face at that moment.
Jack Leon by KN Banet. I was originally going to say Firebird Chronicles by T. A. White but then realized that I would definitely end up captured by the Tsavitee and tortured, and I feel like I have better odds of that not happening in Jacky Leon.
Neil Gaiman’s Stardust;it not a long book but it’s clever and enchanting.The world is simple but the magic is everywhere.
I want to live in clean sweep, travel the world shopping
As my family’s reigning Homebody Champion, Clean Sweep would be my choice by a mile. I would love nothing more than to live life as a guest of an inn (particularly at GH)
Brambly Hedge or the Wind in the Willows would be my pick—both read alouds I’ve recently done with my daughter. Good friends, great food, beautiful country, comfortable houses, and just enough adventure and character development to keep things interesting!
I am on a Doctor who kick. I only just discovered that doctor who is in audio books. I want to travel with the Doctor and be back home in time for dinner with my hubby. Of course, I would only go if I could take my cats with me 🙂
My choice would be the world of Kinsmen, Silent Blade and Silver Shark. I would love to explore New Delphi. I think that world would be one of the most beautiful to find myself in.
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
I spent a lot of time in that world.
Harry Potter, but only if I could have magic
Hoping things calm down for you!
I would love to have magic- so I’d want to explore the Hidden Legacy world.
I would love to be transported into any Innkeepers book and live in Dina’s inn: there’s still toilets, running water, and HEB, but there’s also magic, aliens, and different dimensions!
Riddlemaster of Hed by Patricia McKillip
I need to decompress in the worst way right now. I’m ready to move into Stardew Valley, eat some spring onions, and just chat up villagers while I wait for turnips and cauliflowers to grow. I wouldn’t even bother with the mines atm.
That’s a video game, and not a book, but I couldn’t think of a really chill completely stress-free book off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s a guide to meditation on a warm calm beach out there somewhere LOL.
I love The Kate Daniel’s world, The Innkeeper Universe and Anne McCaffrey’s Talent Universe. If I had to pick, Sweep of the Blade would be my Choice.
Last book I was really transported into was Red Rising. Very creative concept.
One of CM Owen’s Wild One novels. I’d be there in the background laughing my butt off…with a fire extinguisher handy.
Considering how many times I’ve reread all of your books, I’m really looking forward to the Maggie books. The reader transported to their favorite book world! Genius
I would likely die immediately , but Kate Daniels’ world is still my favorite.
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis.
There’s fun series, including all of the Ilona Andrews series, that I’d love to be transported into on the norm, but right now I want some warm and fuzzy vibes. There was something about that book from my childhood that always hit the spot.
And I just booked an appointment to put my 16 year old cat down, so I’d take some talking animals in my life right now. I’ve jokingly said she’s my hospice kitty for months now, but it’s still sad.
Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey. I loved all her books, but this story of a girl succeeding against all odds, made a huge impact on me.
Perhaps – as many problems as there are in the books that I missed as a tween, I’ve always wanted to bond with a dragon.
Pride and Prejudice. Easy answer. I’ve wanted to hang out with Elizabeth Bennett and talk crap about other people for as long as I have been acquainted with her. And maybe steal away Darcey.
For your books definitely Innkeeper. A magical inn that can be anything you want it to be, with amazing food, and everything is safe and cozy because of Dina. Perfect.
If we are going with not your books then something by Gail Carriger. Like Innkeeper they are sweet and cozy and everything works out in the end. There are also gay werewolves.
The Mummy by Elizabeth Peters, Amelia Peabody is the Woman! and Ramsey’s is hilarious when he is young. I can hardly make it through without laughing at their antics.
mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. second favorite author after IA. 🙂
I hate to say it, but most of your worlds would be too much work. I’d probably want to retire to one of the worls Bujold’s Vorkosigan books, where the grunt work & advanced medical care are taken care of with advanced technology. when I was younger, I could have handled living in the Edge, but only to visit.
Oo this is difficult because I love books with a little distopia in them. Tilly Wallace has a book called “Constancy” and the whole book is Jane Austen’s Persuasion but in a world with dragons.
I would love to live on Preservation in Murderbot’s world, meet ART and 3 and just hang out.
The Imager. by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Alternate universe with some very interesting features, but also by one of the very few fantasy religions that has had any appeal for me. I would love to be one of the characters with imager talents.
The near future US from JD Robb’s In Death series. I get modern amenities plus some great extras, but I don’t have to deal with wars or random over powered beings messing up my life more than I do now. The worlds I like to read about are generally not the ones I’d like to live in 😅
Innkeeper. Also, the Inn could get me to Baha Char and thus to any fantasy or sci-fi world from there 😸
Tamora Pierce – Wild Magic
less traditional because its a manga but the My Hero Academia world! Quirks are so cool….
Still would love to see the Kinsmen’s Terraces and try Passion cones, although it might be fun to visit Jasper Fforde’s Tuesday Next and get to pet a dodo…
Thanks for sharing your amazing imaginations with us! Hope you have a relaxing weekend!
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ❤️
Because I too have a chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff and love adventures
Oooh, this is a tough choice! I’m really interested in having a ferret heist so Hidden Legacy is first with a trip to the Keep in the Kate Daniels world being second.
Thank you for all that you do for us BDH. Be sure to rest & recharge this weekend and take time for yourself when you can!
I would choose Richard Scarry’s books – such as ‘What People Do All Day.’ bright colors, much silliness, harmless drama, pickles everywhere.
Oooh, a giveaway! this is so hard, I went through about five answers. I finally landed on The World of the Five Gods, Penric’s and Desdomena’s era. If I was stranded there, I could make it. Probably go into training as a sorcerer. I would move next door to Pen and his family and borrow sugar and learn how to weave.
oh boy a giveaway!!! If I had to pick a book to be transported to it would probably Blood Heir. I want a front row seat to the Julie and Derek show!
My first fantasy literary love was Pern, I couldn’t get enough of the dragon riders. It would be so nice to visit and maybe have a little fire lizard friend 🥰
I’ve thought about this all day and I’m still not 100% sure. But I keep coming back to Andre Norton’s Witch World Series, particularly Key of the Keplian. Jumping through a portal from Earth to another world, with magic, and exploring everything. And with telepathic horses!
Another thought was Terry Brooks Shanara series, but only if I was an elf or a Druid.
Nalini Singh’s Guildhunter series, but only if I could be an angel and fly.
And KD world. I feel like my ability to believe strongly in whatever I want would imbue me with some kind of power.
Innkeeper chronicles for sure. It’s just so wonderfully whimsical
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
While I love your books, I don’t think I would do very well hanging out with Kate and Curran. I have a big appreciation for computers, running water and frozen food. In Hidden Legacy I’d be jealous of all the people with magic, but at least there would be microwave popcorn. My arm aches at the thought of trying to teach myself how to flash. So how. about Forthwright’s Kimiko and the Accidental Proposal which is part of the Amaranthine Saga. I think I would enjoy hanging out with the Starmarks. Although I’d also love to be able to have a pedal powered motor home and safe places to ride through like a Tea Monk in A Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers. I live in San Diego, CA
Percy Jackson
Into the Grinch by Dr. Seuss. Those Whos know what’s what.
there are so many different books I would be curious to be transported into. If not the Innkeeper world, it would be a debate between Lexi Blake’s Siren series or Anne Bishop’s Others series. I cannot decide if the menage town would be more exciting with all their murder/mysteries or talking animals and the Elementals in the Others.
Tamora Pierce: Protector of the Small.
It is a four book YA series. A fantastic series for young and old. Fantasy.
I loved Tara Janzen’s, The Chalice and the Blade. (And then, of course, the rest of the series).
I adore the Innkeeper series which many have mentioned.
So next I would pick the Donna Andrews mystery series in Caerphilly. Everyone in town looks out for one another. Churches of various denominations unite on projects. Characters are quirky and that’s OK. They have numerous festivals that would be so much fun.
We could use a lot more of all of the above.
I’m tempted to be basic and say Middle Earth because that would be amazing but I actually think I’m going to go with Tortall from all of Tamora Pierce’s books. I love the mix of magic and creatures in those books and I would love to find and hang out with some of my favorite side characters who don’t get enough time to shine. From House Andrews, I would definitely like to go visit Baha’char and the rest of the world of the Innkeepers
i’d like to live in the Innkeeper series as a permanent guest to meet all the temporary guests and eat Orro’s amazing food.
Definitely tranport me to the innkeeper series. im not sure i can live without electricity in the gate Daniel’s universe!!!
As Allen Saunders once wrote, “Life is what happens when we are making other plans.” Wishing you a better week next week.
“If you were transported into a book, which book would that be?”
Magic and the Shinigami Detective would be my answer. It’s book 1 in a series entitled The Case of Files of Henri Davenforth. (Though if I did get transported there, I’d probably be dead before the end of Chapter 1. lolsob)
My first choice would be One Fell Sweep, as I need to eat Orro‘s food and who wouldn’t want to help fend off murderous poultry. Secondly, HL series because I would love to meet Cornelius … I am a sucker for animals and adorable children.
I think it would be The Hobbit, I would visit the shire and an inn for dinner and beer, and of course a plate of mushrooms
I mean, Nevada’s Houston sounds ideal. All the crap I like about modern life but add magic. That said, I would make a helluva Discworld witch…. So hard to pick. My partner IMMEDIATELY said Innkeeper. Man didn’t even have to blink.
I would want to be transported into Kate Daniels to hopefully be some kind of magic user that can read any text with my magic and understand and remember what was in it. Even though, I would probably die by being squashed by the first monster I come across 🙂
This is such s hard question! One of those that makes me forget every book I’ve ever read 😅 but since your books are obviously top of mind…I would love to be transported into Innkeeper series, right from the start in Clean Sweep
Shalador’s Lady by Anne Bishop. I love reading about the rebuilding that’s going on.
So many good possibilities… I’m going to go with Innkeeper, because that way I can go universe hopping.
Not in the US but love all the ideas ( also getting some great book suggestions from the comments )
As a nod to my childhood favourite .
I would be in The Sheep-Pig , as a kid I really wanted to have my own sheep-pig , and frequently imagined it herding various animals and the satisfaction of saying at the end . “That’ll do Pig “ . Was most annoyed when my parent refused to buy a pig 😂.
Harry Potter comes to mind … but also Phantom Tollbooth was always a favorite. I think I would die too quickly in most of your worlds but I can’t wait to read them!
I’m not in the US, but l would like to be a mage in the Magician’s Guild from Trudy Canavan. I like to tinker on alchemist projects and be paid for it. Also would the Guild give me room, food and a housekeeper.
Hellspark
First thought is _A Triumph of the Souls_ by Alan Dean Foster but then I realize it is essentially a road movie, and I want to stay home
My second thought is _Perfect State_ by Brandon Sanderson but it is essentially a [REDACTED]
My final thought is _Hellspark_ by Janet Kagan because the heart of the book is trying to get along with people by seeing them as people. And right now, I need more of this in my life.
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Kate Daniels world, my ultimate favorite world, it’s just so unbelievably well thought out, I’d love to visit!
I’ve been obsessed with Anne Bishop’s World of the Others. Over the years, your books and hers are the only books that I keep reading over and over. I’d very much like to be apart of that world.
Pern. First fantasy book I ever read was Dragonflight. Soooo good.
I would like to be transported to the world of “Daughter of Ethos” by L.M.Lacee.
Innkeeper series!
I would love to be in the Ghost Mountain series by Audrey Faye. Just finished reading it and had trouble returning to my everyday life
I would love to be transported into the world of Merideth Gentry By Laurell K. Hamilton. Beautiful fae with deathly powers and yet loving hearts despite all the bad they’ve been through is just….sigh worthy.
I am from Italy so the givaway isn’t for me…may I suggest, next time, to open your giveaway to international readers provided that the winner pays the expenses to send them the book? I would be happy to ..
I believe you have many readers outside the USA!
Innkeeper Chronicles! I want a sentient house all the way!
So excited!
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. First book of fantasy when I was a girl and the start of a lifelong love affair.
A very good question and a difficult choice for me. In your books it is even harder because one question would have to be answered first, would I get to choose who I am. My guess is no, so I will not choose the Innkeeper world. The Kate Daniel’s world offers a lot of choices depending on my birth and inclinations about belief so that is the series I relate to the most with my very open mind about the sorld, ancient civilizations and belief. Thank you for bringing that world into my life. I am anxiously awaiting every blog post and new book that comes out. I have been bed bound for 4 years now and have re-read your books over and over again. I was an art professor (sculptor/ceramics) before my disability ten years ago and I find it difficult not being able to fully create anymore, but my mind stays interested and active in your worlds. Thank you! -Dorilou
House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune. I really, really, really would like to be friends with everyone who lives on Marsyas Island.
Pride and Prejudice! I love Mr. Darcy.
As much as I love your books, I’m unconvinced I’d last very long in those universes!
I’d love to be a long term guest at Dina’s inn. It’s usually less dangerous than Kate’s or Nebraska’s.
Post shift Atlanta. B/c I’m one of those crazy Kate stans
please be kind to yourselves. I was sad that there was no Hugh but…..you have given me a new book list!!!! whoop whoop
I would love to be transported into any of the books from the Ordinary Magic series by Devon Monk (maybe Rock Paper Scissors because of the pink pony demon).
Anything by Cynthia Voigt that is related to the Kingdom or the Tillermans. But also the Expanse book where Amos and Clarissa escape from the prison and have to figure out how to escape from Earth. That was awesome.
I would love to be transported into any of Pratchett’s Discworld books that feature the Librarian of Unseen University. I would apply for a job as his PA and banana wrangler. Oook!
What a great question! It takes me way back. I would go to Narnia!
Excluding any House Andrews universes — because I’d want to live in any/all of them — I need to be either a Valkyrie or a witch in Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark world. Or Lindsay Buroker’s Death Before Dragons universe. And I’m just now realising I’m really into sword-wielding heroines.
Wishing you (and the recovering pup!) a truly restorative weekend.
Deep Winter by Thomas Sherry. It’s a book I read once a year. It’s post apocalyptic world is way too easy but it’s close to HEA so it gives me hope.
This is a hard question to answer – so many great options! But I think at moment I would go with the Discworld from Terry Pratchett
If I could transport into any book, It would be Sweep of the Blade. I love the dynamic between all of the characters; Arland’s mother and Maud; Helen’s threat to Arland’s mother while protecting her mother after the beat down; Maud’s incredible courage; but most of all, how they all com together and become united. The ending where Ilemina’s consort Otubar, puts Helen up on his shoulder and Ilemina talks about giving her cookies like any loving Grandmother would do, but only after extracting the status of the marriage proposal. Still waiting for that branch series to kick off.
The Queen’s Thief world by Megan Whalen Turner! I would love to scheme and pull off a tricky heist with Gen♥️
The first book that really transported me totally into it was THE LORD OF THE RINGS. I first read it 53 years ago (I’m now 77 – speeding to 78) since then I have read it innumerable times and watched Peter Jackson’s movie trilogy in their extended versions many times also. Now I’m hooked on all the Ilona Andrews books, having read most series multiple times. I just finished rereading the Kate Daniels series today….all the way through the novels, the novellas and the Wilmington years and enjoyed them as much as the first time I read them. Can’t wait for Maggie and, of course, Hugh 2.
Innkeeper for sure!!
Innkeeper would be amazing. So many cool things to learn and see.
Happy weekend Andrews and also BDH!
Super excited for the Maggie book – can’t wait!
As for the book that transports me, there are quite a number, but the Touchstone trilogy by Andrea K Höst is my favourite at the moment.
I will also take some advice from other reader comments on new books to try!
Happy reading to everyone <3
Boy, that’s a tough question. But I’d love to meet Kate and Curran, as long as he didn’t put my head in his mouth. Magic Strikes would be cool. I’d love to watch that last arena fight, though I’d be jumping, gasping and cringing during most of it.
just one?! I would have to say Kate Daniels world… I want to see what powers I would end up with in the magical lottery!
I want to be an Innkeeper! But if I couldn’t be an Innkeeper, my second choice would be Sharon Shinn’s Elemental Blessings books. Even ordinary people can get guidance anytime they need it by pulling their blessings.
“One Fell Sweep”.
If I could be transported to any book universe it would be Innkeeper. I’m not pandering, I just know that I have it really good in today’s times and love the idea that there are magical inns and rules of engagement with other sentient beings (I’ve always imagined that aliens double check the locks on their doors when they pass our solar system.)
Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thompson. I’d want to be the fictional character Ms Ramsey that Charlotte Holmes invents (based on a real person in the series she’s imitating). She’s thrice-widowed, old enough to not care of worry about other people’s opinions and goes around saying whatever she feels like and living it up.
That or a character like her. Secure & old enough to do or say what I like without giving much of a damn. Not to beat or hurt people with it. Just to live & be able to not worry about it.
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C Wrede
Talking dragons that are friends not creatures that think I am food. What’s not to love.
The Hidden Legacy world! I just love the way you weave magic in everyday life.
Oh.. so many book options. Burn for me was a biggie.
I was reading the comments for help because I can’t decide, and it just made it worse. I was like oh that’s a good series, or oh yeah I’d fall into that book. lol!
I think I’d fall in to Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey. It was the first fantasy novel I fell in love with.
I would like to live in the Hallows from “A Witch with No Name” and the rest of the Rachel Morgan books by Kin Harrison.
probably in the Tuann world from TA White’s Firebird series.
For the type of “lost in a world I’ve imagined forever” series that I understand Maggie to be (and that I cannot wait to read) I think I’d have to choose Narnia. Escaped into that world so much as a child. Always a comfort.
The Deed of Paksennarion by Elizabeth Moon has long been my ideal world. I would love to meet and speak with the Kuakgon at length.
I sincerely hope next week is better.
Very sad for Austrlia 😭 Mainly me 😉
I would want to be transported to Lord of the Rings universe! Pre or post Ring saga 🙂
I would like to be transported into Clean Sweep. It is our world, but with the opportunity to explore!
Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C Clarke
I’d love to end up in one of Tamora Pierce’s books, or Innkeeper. OR this old comic i read as a kid called W.I.T.C.H loved that series. there was also a manga i read where everyone had these gravity defying rollerblades, that looked like fun.
Either Harry Potter or Hidden Legacy. When I was a kid I used to rewrite (in my head :D) the HP story with me in it, going to Hogwarts and living that life, it was one my favorite hobbies.
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman. If you’ve read the series, you’d know why.
Innkeeper Chronicles. I want to grow up as Helen. Her life is and will be fabulous. The rippercushions are real and I would willing to take them to grow as Helen with Maude, Arland,and the best grand mother ever, Ilemina.
I would enter into the world of the Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce. She was my first introduction to the kind of worlds and magics that make my mind delight in the creativity of the human mind. My kids now love that series like I do and we all agree that we would love to have Lark and Rosethorn as our teachers!
I would want to be transported into the Their Vampire Queen series by Joeley Sue Burkhart. I’d like to be one of her house staff.
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. To the point of learning parts of the languages. I reread it at least once a year and it’s my favorite book.
The Innkeeper Universe is definitely where I’d like to be transported. Maybe starting with Sweep With Me to see the gorgeous Treaty Stay room and enjoy Orro’s delicious lemon muffins. While the whole series has been a comfort listen during really stressful times (which seems to be more frequent lately), I love this particular book because of Adira and the philosopher chickens – who wouldn’t want to meet them?! Plus, I’d get to stick around for Sweep of the Heart!
Childhood dreams never die – I think I’d still choose Narnia!!
Thanks for the giveaway chance, and I hope this week goes more smoothly!!
It’s probably Charlotte’s Web. my family had a BBQ every year, my grandfather would raise a piglet so we would watch it grow throughout the year.
I felt like I knew Wilbur the pig and my Mom’s name is Charlotte.
I could see the scenes in my mind with Templeton the rat, sympathize with Fern, who loved Wilbur.
For however long I read each day, I was on that farm with all those characters.
And it’s the same now, and i still love to read.
So, thank you writers for all the adventures this little southern girl, now not so little woman, has had.
It might be pretty scary but I think the hidden legacy series is a really interesting world. If I could belong to one of the houses I would go there.
I really hope your household feels better.
In terms of a book, I have been thinking a lot about “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” a book I first read the summer after sixth grade on a road trip from New York that took us to Montana. I read it through my father telling me to put down the book and look at the mountains, by headlights and campfires and flashlights in tents. Francie was so determined, and her mother, Katie, was so hard to understand. When she gave Francie’s high school money to her brother my reaction was visceral.
But the scene I remember the most, especially now with my own children, is the scene where Katie is arguing with her sister over giving Francie a cup of coffee every morning. Francie doesn’t drink it, she just likes the smell and Katie’s sister says that it’s a waste they can’t afford. Katie, who is not always kind to Francie, holds firm on giving her the coffee because her daughter likes it. It is such a good scene.
graceling by Kristin Cashore
This is such a difficult question! Maybe Thune of Legends and Lattes or the world of T. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel.
Magic Triumphs because I love reading how Kate overcomes all of the obstacles in her life
incryptid series by seanan McGuire
The Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce. It’s been my comfort read (read at least 1 time per yr) since I discovered it at 12. My sister now has my first copies of the books. She quizzed me one Christmas. I still know which side of the page all of my favorite quotes are on.
Sorry it was a long week! I know we felt the same in my house.
Innkeepers books would be my top pick. Id love to sit and have tea and Orro’s amazing food with my favorite characters!!
Sweep of the Heart!
I would want to be transported into Damar from the Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley
The first was Tolkien’s world: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ring series.
In later years, the discovery of strong women characters like Mercy Thompson, Eve Dallas, Kate Shugak, Nevada Baylor and family, Dina DeMille, Kate Daniels – but it is Kate’s series, “Here kitty, kitty..”
Thank you, Ilona Andrews!
I would want to be in the Innkeeper world- excitement, but also good tea and comfy vibes. Sounds perfect!
I would love to be transported into the Innkeeper world!
I would like to be transported into the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce. Preferably as a mage at winding circle.
Pride and Prejudice or maybe Little Women. I’ve always wanted to have sisters. The social mores of their time periods would be an issue though.
“The Diamond Throne” by David Eddings. It’s one of my favorite books from my childhood and I would love to meet Sparhawk & Flute etc
One book…so difficult to choose just one. I also can’t choose one favorite book…maybe Hidden Legacy, Harry Potter, or the Merry Gentry series.
I know this is going to sound silly but child me would want to be transported into Valdemar. Adult me would still very much want my own special Companion. Lol
Now, I think I would want to be transported into the InnKeeper universe.
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern got me through some really tough times in my teen years. I always loved the idea of being a part of a telepathic team, plus DRAGONS.
At first, I was overwhelmed by how many books to choose from. Then I realized it was a no-brainer. I’m going to Discworld and setting up house in Lancre so I can hang out with Granny Weatherwax. Yup. She’ll probably give me that *look* and I will wilt, but I cannot think of another character or place from the fictional world that has been with me all my adult life and even helped me grow up in the early years. I confess. When Sir Terry wrote about Granny’s death in _The Shepherd’s Crown_ I cried. Ugly cry. It was like losing another grandmother who may have not been the most outwardly affectionate, but she cared and you learned how to be a better human being from her.
I think I’d have a pretty good chance of surviving in a Mercedes Thompson novel 😅. A bright and sometimes wonderfully frightening world, yeah wayyy better than our current reality.
Full disclosure I first thought of Anne Bishop’s the World of the Others but I’d probably be bitten or maybe mistakenly eaten? Sksksksk.
Please take care of yourselves!!! We all appreciate you both very much! My world is Hidden Legacy. Having a magic talent would be amazing.
Harry potter’s world would be my dream!!
Silver Shark, or back to the start of it all in Pern with Dragonflight.
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. All of her books are wonderful and her writing is amazing.
I’m a big fan of Clive Cussler. I’ve always wanted to go on treasure hunting adventures with his characters Sam and Remi Fargo.
I’ve wondered what kind of magic I’ll have if I was in the Kate Daniels world.
Kate’s world. Sure I would need to workout first. Is there any other reason to visit Atlanta?
There is absolutely no doubt that I’d want to be transported into the Innkeeper Chronicles, and live in an inn.
The books are my very favorite, my ultimate comfort books, and I’ve read them countless times.
I’d like to be Darla Lewis from Shelley Laurenstone’s LIKE A WOLF WITH A BONE 🙂
I would want to see the Edge series world. Not sure if I’d want to stay, but if I stumbled through an edge I would hope to find someone like Kaldar to help me find my way back.
Innkeeper Chronicles world for immersion, starting with Clean Sweep and going all the way through them. I would love to taste Orro’s cooking! Excuse me while I go listen to the Graphic Audio edition (again).
Sweep of the Blade! I need a vacation…😊
Lord of the Rings. I was in college and didn’t know fantasy books existed. I”ve reread it many times. But, I put your books in the same category, The Reread Category. Many books I read and have no further interest in them. Your books I finish and immediately want to reread. I think I’ve read them more often than Tolkien. But, Tolkien is special. It was first.
Many thanks!!!
I love all of your writing. Can’t wait for anything you write.
I’d choose Hidden Legacy as my book choice.
The Innkeepers books, or the Valdemar books both sound great to jump in to! (shamelessly copying others answers, they were good ones!)
Clean Sweep
I would be a Mistborn and full feruchemist in Mistborn.
But the child in my is horrified that I didn’t pick Harry Potter after waiting for the Hogwarts letter for so long!
Outlander is the book. I love the series and the first book was the one that delivered me to Scotland and Claire is a strong independent woman educated nurse. Everything that I admire in humanity. Wish there were more Claire and Jamie in this world.
Oh, I would want to be transported to “Greenwillow” by B.J. Chute. I would be able to meet sweet Dorie who bakes bilberry tarts and dreams of a happy ending; see the cow that kneels down at Christmas; listen to the two parsons battling over good and evil — and most of all, to talk to Gideon, who loves the land with a passion I can only envy. I’ve read this book at least 15 times, and have never gotten tired of it.
The very first book I can remember that transported me to a completely different world was Lord of the Rings, which I read for the first time as a child in the 1960s. This was the first fantasy book I ever read, and it sparked a lifetime love for fantasy. I would love to be transported into a peaceful Shire, or Rivendell or Lothlorien before the war.
I would want to be transported into the world of Jacky Leon by K.N Banet.
I would work at her bar or hope to be able to become her friend. I also enjoyed the Kate Daniel series. I am looking forward to reading about Maggie’s story.
P.S. if I lived in either world, I secretly would want to have very strong powers/ abilities to be able to survive and live among my friends.
My middle school self would have loved Pern. My grown up self would choose Victoria Goddard’s “At the feet of the Sun”
I love hearing about y’all’s real life and how creating these stories we lose ourselves in really a part of your life that you then share with us. Obvious but as a non creative person sometimes it is easy to forget you aren’t writing fairies that wave your magic and poof we have another world to enjoy. Real life is tough but we are thankful for the magic you add to our world.
We asked this question in my book club the other day and while there are so many books that have worlds I would love to visit the only world I could be tempted to jump into is Inn Keeper. I would LOVE to be an inn keeper. It has always been a dream of mine to run a bed and breakfast so this world took that dream and made it bad ass and more fun at the same time!
If I were transported into a book I would want it to be any one of the Innkeeper series. I’ve always wanted to own a bed and breakfast (retirement goals!) and the idea of a *magical* inn is, well, magic to me!
I would surely enjoy being a guest at the Gertrude Hunt and be able to eat Orro’s cooking: Sweep in Peace.
Oh I’d LOVE to be transported to post-shift Atlanta. Kate is 5000x more badass than me but I’d love to see the way magic and tech pull at each other.
I hope you can take the weekend to just be.
Books I would want to live in, for your orlds, it would have to be the (or at all) e Innkeeper series. I don’t run fast enough for any of the others.
And I would really, really love to meet Paddington. Those books were my gateway drug to chapter books. I’ve read them to my children and I hope to one day read them to grands.
Chronicles of Narnia would be where I end up!
Hands down, Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend.
Innkeeper! I would love to be able to open a door and walk into a different world!
Silver Silence by Nalini Singh. Because, bears. 🙂
Specifically Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – the first “thick” chapter book I ever read. I would give anything for quidditch to be real, and for me to be able to see it IRL.
However, I have an almost equally strong desire to enter into the world of Hidden Legacy (as a magic user, of course).
So excited for Maggie! Take care of yourselves, House Andrews.
I was definitely transported into the Hidden Legacy series, that’s my comfort series for sure. I would also say I was transported into the Throne of Glass series.
Definitely a book in the Innkeeper series, with cozy comfort, great food, meeting other species, and exploring new worlds
A Land Remembered. I was devastated to find of it was fiction. So good.
Start out in the Edge, blunder my way to an Inn!
The Once and Future King
Such a tough one!
I’d love to visit the different realms in Prythian from the A Court of Thorns & Roses series by Sarah J. Maas!
As the main character- either the Scholomance series or the Touchstone trilogy would be fun! As a regular person, maybe something like the Richard Scarry books. Those seem nice and chill.
I think would go back to my favorite childhood series and spend time Tamara Pierce’s Tortall. Specifically, Wild Magic. As a kid, I spent hours dreaming of that world and what it would be like.
Sometimes life just likes to interrupt our routine to keep us on our toes and sharp. Although since I, too, missed days this week I’d have to say that sometimes I’d love a long weekend at Gertrude Hunt, eating Orro’s chicken, mango ice cream and doughnuts. So Sweep of the Heart it would be.
Monday seems to be the only day that never seems to get misplaced (at least for me) so it will still arrive on time to begin again. So may your weekend be relaxing and a boon to recharging your batteries (and healing for Sookie).
Murderbot’s world… just cause, well, MURDERBOT.
I want to be transported into the psy-changling world by Nalini Singh. I would want post silence so I’ll pick Ocean Light as the specific book.
Innkeeper comes a close second. I want to eat Orro’s food while watching Koo-ko philosophical debates.
Like so many others, I’d like to be in the Innkeeper’s World. I just love it so much!!
Almost any of the Star Trek books (especially Next Generation time period). I just want to live in that universe.
Send me into Throne of Glass
The book I always wanted to live in was the Secret Garden. I could wear dresses and swing surrounded by roses and peace.
Inn keeper books, for sure!
You don’t have to tell me about it being a week. I got hit by a tornado on Wednesday myself.
So many books have pulled me in but Howl’s Moving Castle is a special one. I read the entire book in a single evening. Didn’t get up from the chair to eat dinner or drink anything or use the bathroom. Then I finished it and immediately had to start re-reading it because I did not want to leave that world, I was so deep into it.
Sweep of the Heart for the win here! Maybe as a friend of Dina? Or even guest? Everything in that book is fascinating!!!!
Thank you for all your books and free stories, we truly love them! Hope you feel better soon, take care of yourselves!
I would want to go to Tortall from Tamora Pierce’s series (Alanna, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, etc). Loved those books so much as a teen and still reread them often as an adult. They really paved the way for my love of other fantasy and urban fantasy world’s (like Kate’s!).
Tough question! I would choose a Thea Harrison Elder Races book- maybe Oracle’s Moon or The Wicked.
Innkeeper ❤️
While KD is my fav series, I couldn’t live there. I’d die. I would love to live in Tamora Pierce’s Tortall but only if I had cool magic. I love the Wild Magic she created and would love that ability.
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Innkeeper – Sweep of the Heart! I’m a Texan who loves aliens! And vampires!
A lot of the fantasy and Sci fi books I read are in worlds that I truly would not want to live in. Monsters everywhere an nothing is safe.
That being said, being a regular person with regular magic in the Hidden Legacy world wouldn’t be too bad.
Magic would be an everyday thing and I can laugh at whatever crazy antics the Prime houses decide to do.
My latest favorite (until Maggie) is The Wizard’s Butler by Nathan Lowell. Great characters and slow build of discovery and suspense.
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
The Innkeepers Chronicles. So hard to pick! But I love theese books! You have action, adventure, sci-fi/fantasy and romance all in one!
Can I be one of Dina’s permanent guest or permanent staff? I’ll work for her to have a place in that inn. Even if its just picking up Orro’s shed quills, or Olisard’s and Beast’s furballs, I volunteer in exchange for room and board!
It would be so great to be an Innkeeper, but….I would love to be a Healy and have a colony of Aisling mice…
Innkeeper – Sweep of the Heart! I’m a Texan who loves aliens and vampires!
Innkeeper world. Imagine sleeping in a bed made of tree branches, floor of water with colorful fishes quietly swimming around, balcony overlooking another world’s sea, and dreams of delicious Orro cooking. Visiting other worlds would be a bonus.
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. It would fulfill my childhood fantasy! But I’d want to go durning a time of peace! 😂
I would chose to get lost in teither the Kate Daniel’s world or A court of silver flames to hang out with Nesta.
Live long and prosper! The world of Star Trek, I’m sure there are Inn’s there somewhere.
The book I’d like to be transported into is a toss up between Innkeeper and being able to visit Gertrude Hunt and the Mercyverse created by Patricia Briggs so that I knew where to find an honest mechanic.
I like this question. While there are multitudinous books I love, to go inside of one, especially with no guarantee of main character energy, I have to say a psalm for the wild-built. I love the calm, hopeful, energy, and the feeling that everyone in it is working for communal and personal good.
The Honey Badger Chronicles by Shelly Laurenston. They make me laugh and it’d be great to be able to turn into an animal an laze about as my inner panda could finally come out. 😂
I’d love to visit the Innkeeper world, especially when the space chickens are there, to stay in a customized room, eat Orro’s food, eavesdrop on Dina’s talks with Cordelia, and go shopping in Baha Char; any of Charlotte English’s faery-adjacent worlds (with a knowledgeable local escort so I don’t get trapped); Charles deLint’s Newford for the magic and music; and Kim M. Watt’s Toot Hansell to meet the cake-loving dragons, get a glowing dragon-scale ornamental, and maybe go on one of Mortimer s animal liberation raids. The last two only in spring or summer, though, winters are too cold in Canada and Yorkshire.
Clean sweep and the entire innkeeper chronicles. Such diverse worlds and foods to explore and seems safe for me to survive long enough to enjoy (unlike Kate Daniel’s world, where I think I would die a quick and painful death immediately).
Blood over Brighthaven by ML Wang ❤️
Any of the Innkeeper books would be amazing! Thank you!
Interesting question. I think I would be happy in the land of Narnia from CS Lewis’ the “Chronicles of Narnia” They are lifelong favorites. I see them as a whole, and can’t decide on one book.
I had fun thinking about this one, thank you!
I’d pick any of The Dresden Files books to be transported too. My luck, though, I’d end up as either the villain or the victim, but my desire to be a pivotal friend to Harry.
I would love to be transported to the innkeeper world as long as I would qualify to be a guest. When I was younger I wanted to be a dragon rider of Pern.
Hard choice between two House Andrews series, Innkeepers and the Edge, or Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series.
Late period Valdemar, telepathic horses that are smart and won’t try to kill you by spooking at….a leaf? a broom? and magic and various species of people and gryphons and … lol
The Wicked in Me by Suzanne Wright
There are several series I love to reread. Kate Daniel’s, kinsman universe, hidden legacy, JD Robb In Death series, Patricia Brigg’s MercyThompson which to choose from? Can I move from one to another? I would like to spend days in each of them. Each series grabs me for different reasons.
I’m not sure if it counts because it’s a graphic novel, but Elfquest is where I wanted to be. It’s so beautiful and I’ve always loved elves!
I grew up being Max from Where the Wild Things Are. “Let the wild rumpus start!”
that’s a hard one. so many great books out there.
the Lord of the Rings, probably the first book The Fellowship of the Rings
I would love to visit the world of the Soprano Sorceress by EL Modesitt. I love the idea that music can physically change the world.
take the weekend off. next week is a fresh start.
I would love to visit the Inn and snuggle Beast. Other books are fun t read about but too dangerous if you can’t pick where and who you are.
Looking forward to diving into Maggie’s favorite world!
I came here unsure, but there are so many wonderful suggestions!!! Innkeeper please!
Not in the U.S (Thank you, universe/fate!)
I would like to live in the world of the Amaranthine Saga by Forthright, as a reaver of course 😄
Wonderful world full of hidden magic, politeness, kindness and tolerance, such a difference from real life today, where apparently might is right and we are taught to hate everyone who is different.
Ilona mentioned the author a long time ago, and I will always be grateful for the wonderful recommendation!
I would be transported into Lord of the Rings…and totally just STARE at Aragorn for a week. My husband (aka Stud Muffin) is my one and only….but he understands I can window shop, but no touching (Bwaaaa!)
If I were transported into a book, it would be Born in Fire by KF Breene. I love her world-building and characters. Her books are the perfect blend of sass, humor, romance, fantasy, and overall bad-ass(ery).
Bayou Moon sucks me in every time I read it
If I were transported into a book, it would be the innkeeper series!
Probably the Innkeeper series, mainly to try out Orro’s cooking and experience the wonder of the inns!
I am a wimp and would die in any of your worlds except for the InnKeeper. It’s basically ours plus the exciting link via Innkeepers to other worlds. But I would probably die in any mix with that link so again, I would be dead or not know about it. Therefore the world I would like to live in would be Harry Potter but with magic not as a muggle if we are allowed to be choosy. I also always thought when I was young that being an elf in The Lord Of the Rings would be fun.
As for Hugh, we can wait. Taking care of you and your family is way more important. The BDH can and will wait. We will be here to happily gobble up whatever y’all give us when you are ready and when it doesn’t cost y’all to do so.
That’s a hard one! Probably Harry Potter!
Innkeeper world. I’d want to be Dina’s neighbor and best friend so naturally I’d know all the secrets. This way I’d still enjoy all the modern conveniences like indoor plumbing, Amazon, and Costco but still see magic and meet some really cool aliens.
Take care of yourselves; waiting is such sweet sorrow … ahhh, waitaminnit, I don’t think that’s quite how the line went, was it?
As to the question, I find that with my less-than fully functional, worn out body I’d opt for the world(s) of Heinlein’s “Time Enough For Love.” Medical technology that can restore a decrepit old man to youthful vigor makes a strong draw for me.
Innkeeper please! I would want to hang out at the inn and garden with Dina, then dine on Orro’s cooking.
The Hidden Legacy world. If I had to pick a specific book…White Hot.
I would like to be part of Dianne Duvall’s Immortal Guardian series.
I would transport to Hidden Legacy and hopefully have a prime power!
Loving travel as much as I do, I would choose one of the Innkeeper Chronicles books. The thought if visiting Baha-Char is intriguing!
Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels world. Just love the magic and characters so much it would be amazing to wander about!
I think I would pick Kristen Ashley’s Fantasyland universe. I’d like to see where my “twin” is.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells. I want to be rescued by Murderbot
Going through the comments gave me a lot of ideas, but I will stick with my first thought – Pern. I spent most of my childhood dreaming of that world.
Hope you have an Innkeeper-on-a-slow-day sort of weekend!
It’s gotta be Tamora Pierce’s Tortall world. I think I’d pick the Alanna the Lioness series, since once the magical creatures are released from the divine realms, things get a lot more interesting (i.e. dangerous and I’m a scaredy-cat). But from what it sounds like, similarly to Maggie, I’ve read those books so many times I have them basically memorized, so it’d be fascinating to see them play out in front of me. Best wishes to House Andrews!!
Thank you for the giveaway! There are so many books I love, but I’d really love to be in one with magic provided I have magical powers haha. I loved the Circle of Magic series growing up, or think Hidden Legacy would be cool with a more modern setting.
I’m betraying my age, but I read Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsinger and DragonDrums the summer when I was 11. I would lay in bed at night staring at the beam of light from the street lamp and try to make it expand into a doorway portal to Pern.
Let me be transported to Gertrude Hunt! I would love to reside in the house with such diverse characters as Dina, Sean & Caldenia – not to mention Orro & his culinary delights!
I would love to be in the Innkeeper universe. So much fun!
The book I’d love to be transported to would be Jane Eyre.
I’d love to be part of the Innkeeper universe! Magic, excitement and the mysteries of and entire universe! Wonderful!
This is a difficult decision! my first thought is Kate Daniels so I’ll stick to that one although there are so many that keep popping into my mind!
Great question!
For me, it came down to 3 options:
1. Hands down, Clean Sweep. The world-building had me mesmerized as I read it the first time. I would love to be able to visit Dina as an in-the-know friend who would stay for a few days at a time, cozied up at the breakfast table with Dina’s Maine Coon (partly) on my lap (my wonderful Maine Coon was far too big to fit on me). We’d chat and I’d be a fly on the wall to the wonderful goings-on. I adore the feeling of comfort, the giggles, and the gasps of wonder that seem fresh upon every reading.
2. I spent years transported to England’s horse racing community in Dick Francis’ Sid Halley books. As an Anglophile and horse fanatic and rider, it was home away from home for many years. Old friends, indeed. I saved for a long time to fly to England and visit Newmarket, and the tour and surroundings felt like home.
3. The book Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter is loved for her sweet characterization of a woman who loves the Limberlost forest who meets and falls in love with a loner guard hired by a logging company who lost a hand in a fire. It was the first time I read about tolerance for a seeming disability, and the heartwarming feeling I was left with about the love story held me in good stead when my husband lost an arm to cancer decades later.
Sweet memories, thank you.
Take good care! You all so deserve it!
Innkeeper for sure- i dont want to be killed by warring houses or by giants brought back to life
Calvin and Hobbs because they are always up for fun adventure
Howl’s moving Castle! Love the whimsical vibe, being surrounded by magic and the light-heartedness of the characters.
Sorry for the sucky week. May the next one be better.
I would like to be transported into Meghan Ciana Doidge’s universe only if a could be a dragon.
I’m currently reading her Amplifyer series. Most of the book worlds I seem to read have a high likelihood of death if there’s any fun magic or paranormal involved. If I’m one of groups with the most powerful version of the magic, I’d hope to live to enjoy it a bit longer.
Sweep of the Blade, to be a fly on the wall while Maude navigated her way through that book. It’s one of my favorites. Or maybe to be on the household staff in A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. It’s cozy and lovely.
The Others series by Anne Bishop
Lake Silence by Anne Bishop, I’ve reread it almost as many times as the Innkeeper series.
Ooffff wishing HA an easier week!
I would choose the Innkeeper series – space and magic for the win!
Good morning:
The one that got me started in the House Andrews universe was the Hidden Legacy series. In fact, I’m still hoping for Arabella’s story!
Otherwise, my second favorite author is Jennifer Crusie and my annual re-read of her books is Agatha and the Hitman.
Keep writing!
I would have to say the innkeeper series books would be my choice. That or the Mercy Thompson series. I love both of those worlds.
I’d be afraid I wouldn’t survive Kate’s world! 😁
Another favorite would be the Dragon Kin/Scarred Earth Saga world by GA Aiken.
I know yall didn’t expect just one right?! 🤣
Acheron/Styxx House of Didymos a special anniversary edition of Acheron’s & Styxx’s journeys by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
In this version of the twins story which was done on Kickstarter. My husband and I are characters that are wedding guests at Acherons wedding.
Well, I mostly read isekai, portal, system apocalypse, or litrpg type books. But there is no way I’d survive in those books! It would be short and brutal.
So I would go with Iron Prince in the Warformed: Storm weaver series. Advanced futuristic technology and comforts plus hopefully get a CAD system for advanced tech powers and abilities.
Such a hard decision! Tempted to go with Middle Earth, just to get dinner with hobbits! But I think the world of the Innkeeper series would be the best – since you could visit so many different worlds from there!
I would like to be in the world “Kate Daniels”! It’s full of many dangers and incredible wonders.
sorry to hear about your long week! thanks for a great giveaway! id have to say the kate Daniel’s world. I love the concept of the magic but I don’t know if i could survive the post apocalyptic vibe without it! thank you!
Jumping on the Innkeeper bandwagon. It’s one of my favorite series… but sweep of the blade!
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. My favorite was Foundation and Earth. This world caught my fancy when I was a teen. An amazing high tech world with robots and so many different colony planets. My mind was blown.m
I would pick Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon so I could go to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
Love me a hidden/magical library
I love so many books that in would want to travel into, but for this purpose I’m going to choose Chronicles of Narnia.
Definitely burn for Me!
Murder of crows. Anne Bishop. Or really any of The World of the Others books.
I have way too many favorites to decide this. It’s got to be a book by Robin McKinley. Maybe Beauty or Sunshine, or the Blue Sword. (I would pick a Kate Daniels book, but as other people have commented, I’d die in about half a second).
I just did a reread of Maggie Lily’s Trellis family universe and I want to be at one of their family Sunday dinners!
If I was transported into a book, I’d like to go to The Dragon Riders of Pern by AnneMcCaffrey. Who wouldn’t want to be bonded with a freaking dragon?
So many: Innkeeper (I’d die in KD’s world), Patricia Briggs, Anne Bishop, Ursula leGuin, among others. But if I had to pick just one, I think it would be Tanya Huff’s world of the Enchantment Emporium–not only dragons, but also pie. Lots of pie.
Dragonriders of Pern. Any of the first three. When I was a teenager I would imagine myself getting picked up by a rider who just popped out of between for me.
Valdemar or Discworld or Tamora Pierce’s world for me. Apparently fantasy is my jam right now.
I would love to be transported in Julie Andrew Edwards book Mandy. I always wanted to be in the cottage she fixed up. I did not have a happy childhood and Mandy’s world and the happy family she finds were my dream. I have done a lot of renovation and redesign in my life and Mandy is part of the inspiration for that. I was fortunate to get my first edition hardback signed by the author back when Disney World had a Writer’s Stop bookshop in one of their parks.
A second choice would be the world of Patricia McKillip’s Riddle Master, where it’s possible to become so in tune with nature that one can take on the form of animals, plants and even control the winds. I wanted to be Lyra the archer, and live in a society led by women.
I’m putting 2 on here because I couldn’t decide. Hidden Legacy because the characters are hilarious and I love them so much. My other choice is Lake Silence/The Others Anne Bishop’s world. That world is very fascinating and borderline scary sometimes because one false move and you done. 🤣
Rest up…the book will come when it comes no hurry!
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. This one has a rhythm which draws you into days of childhood and that feeling safety and endless possibilities.
The Ever King (The Ever Seas series) by LJ Andrews. What’s not to love about Vikings and pirates? I really enjoyed the Broken Kingdoms series too which is part of the same world.
I’d live in the world of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede because I could live in a cozy cottage in an enchanted wood and maybe make friends with dragons
There are way too many places I’d like to be transported to.
1. Burn for Me . I love Mad Rogan and Nevada!
Tied with Amelia Hutchins Fae Chronicles, Fighting Destiny…Love Ryder and Synthia.
Cindy
There are way too many places I’d like to be transported to.
1. Burn for Me . I love Mad Rogan and Nevada!
Tied with Amelia Hutchins Fae Chronicles, Fighting Destiny…Love Ryder and Synthia.
Cindy
If I were brave, I would say Kushiel’s Dart, iykyk!
When I was a kid, A Wrinkle in Time. It was such a wild fantastical ride, with wonder and horror.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers.
I am a voracious reader, and my wife is ambivalent about books at best. The Innkeeper series is the only time I have been able to convert her into a book lover, and we now joyously share each new release. (I was a deep lover of all things House Andrews already, but this little shared intersection of my favorite thing and favorite person is something I can never adequately express gratitude for.)
That being said, A Psalm for the Wild-Built is the only book that I have had the patience to read aloud whole chapters to her. There is such depth to this story, a simpleness on the surface that is deceptive until you’ve been pulled deep in and are facing an ocean of thoughts.
Dragonflight. Who could resist the possibility of bonding with a dragon?
(Sweep of the Blade is pretty tempting, too.)
This took some thought. I knew it had to be the Innkeeper universe because it’s so fantastic and beautiful. The hard part was picking a single book. I decided on Sweep of the Blade. I want to watch Helen grow up because she’s hell on wheels! I have a crush on Karat too.
If I could be transported into a book, I would like to be transported into the Kate Daniels world (any book) or the old Borderland books edited by Terri Windling. I am a system administrator by trade. I have a job to do in these worlds. In a place where magic and technology collide in weird ways, I have my own type of magic. If you need a computer and network to be up and running during a magic wave, I am your girl. System administration is half wizardry already. We’re a natural fit.
I found Robert Silverberg’s “Across a Billion Years” at my lical library when it first xame out in 1969 (I was 8). Paleozenoarcheology, alien scientists, and a wonderful plotline between a brother and a sister. That was the novel that hooked me then as a reader and now as a writer. Still a great YA read.
This is hard. I’d love to world hop, kind of like how kids backpack across Europe. If I have to pick one, either Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter world or Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files (as long as I don’t become Harry. Jim likes to torture him too much).
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow. A little on the darker side but no matter how many times I read it sucks me in every time.
Oh my heavens, I am so fortunate to have enjoyed (and often enjoy all over again) many transporting books, including and especially the Baylor family stories 🙂
I’ll celebrate and agree with some already suggested here, definitely Anne Bishop’s The Others, all the Innkeepers (I love Maeve and Helen’s relationship), all of Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson series, anything by Nalini Singh, Cat and Bones by Jeaniene Frost and all of Darynda Jones.
I’m currently reading a fabulous cozy series by Jana DeLeon about a former CIA agent who ends up in Sinful, Louisiana. She can’t believe all the funny/crazy things that happen there. I’d love to be Gertie, the octogenarian former covert operative who is is still 12 at heart & has adventure mishaps every book.
I’d love to live in the Inn. Oh, to live in a magic house with Beast and Olasard! To eat meals created by Orro! To meet and perhaps befriend members of intergalactic species!! Gertrude Hunt would be ideal for my retirement!
I love all your books. I have read them all at least twice. I am waiting patiently for Hugh and am looking forward to meeting Maggie.
Taellaneth by Vanessa Nelson, there’s magic and adventure
As much as I want to say Kate Daniels I also recognize I would die 0.2 seconds after arriving. So for the sake of my safety I will say the Spell Shop. I could live happily on a small magical island.
What a difficult choice! Are you familiar with Ursula Vernon’s Digger illustrated novel? The world is full of fascinating creatures I would like to meet and places I would like to see.
2 answers
1) any Kate Daniels book but then I need to come back because I would absolutely die
2) once of the books from the October Daye series as long as I could enter Faerie 😁
A discovery of witches – love rearead
I would want to be in the world of a series called The Interdependency, a future where humans live in giant bubbles in space
I’m gonna say Innkeeper because I’d like the hell off this planet.
I would totally love to work in “The Invisible Library”!
I recently reread Psalm for the Wild Built, and I want to go to that world, where humans have consciously and carefully chosen better.
I would want to be in the Innkeeper’s worlds. Between travel between galaxies, Orro’s cooking, home/room design at a whim AND never having to worry about home repairs every day would be like a vacation.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett, provided I could tag along
I would want to go to Middle Earth in The Hobbit/LOTR, but only if I could be a Hobbit. A culture that focuses on good food, gardening, and vibing with nature? Yes please! Otherwise I would want to be in the Innkeeper world so I could stay at an inn. More delicious food, a house that can suit your every need to become peak coziness and a chance to see a lees or one of the philosophical space chickens? Sign me up baby, I never want to leave!
Innkeeper world for me! Travel and adventure, but also cozy inns to reset when I feel homesick. Wish I could say KD, but I likely wouldn’t survive.
I’m glad you made it to the end of the week! It has been a week. I woke up Tuesday morning trying to figure out if it was Saturday or Sunday. I almost cried when I figured out it was only Tuesday. This was just the end of the week post I needed. I have been having so much fun reading others’ posts. Oh Pern yes! The Cerulean Sea! Narnia- my entry into fantasy. Prince Edward Island! Regency England- I wondered if anyone else would go there. Then I started taking notes on all the ones I haven’t read. I’m ready to throw out all my plans of lesson plans, end of the quarter grades, and house projects and spend spring break curled into a ball with a stack of books, tea, and my pups. So after THIS week, I would go Innkeeper. I need to be somewhere I would be kept safe, eat amazing foods, get a chance to hang out with a werewolf, and read, read,read.
Wow so many great books out there, what to pick! I would love to go to the Innkeepers world.
Innkeeper universe without any doubt, so many worlds and cultures to explore. But if we go outside of House Andrews, I would choose the Goblin Emperor world, maybe because I just finished the new book, but the world is so comforting and rich in detail.
I’d love to visit Ingary! Diana Wynne Jones’ trilogy.
The first time I was transported into another world was The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. I’m drawn to a reluctant/hesitant badass female hero who can draw loyal friends because of their untarnished spirit.
HA writes their heroines with the same simple elegance. I am transported into their mindset almost instantly and travel along with them willingly, joyfully hurdling every obstacle just to prove my loyalty and love.
Innkeeper as well. Specifically a meal with Orro. I think IA is too good at describing food.
I would want to live in Darkover by Marion Zimner Bradley as a redhead with very strong Karen. But if not there then definitely Innkeeper with a chef just like Orro.
Definitely the Stormlight Archive though I’d want to be in god mode while there.
It’s a fanfic of Five Nights At Freddy’s called “Everything Is Alright”. Even though it’s horror, and the world is firmly dangerous, it explores trauma in such a profound way. It helped me admit to and face some of the darkest things I’ve experienced. And at it’s core, it’s about the relationships we forge and how much we gain when we open ourselves up to others despite fear and pain and trauma.
any books I really like I tend to daydream about entering their world. I have read Kate Daniels many times, so that world – as awful as it can be – has been featured many times. I’m so excited for Maggie!
So I’m stuck in bed for about a month due to a ski injury and I’ve been reading Harmony Raines books that are about fantasy characters in a town called Wishing Moon Bay. There are a ton of different series all based on or around this town and I’ve been really enjoying them. They are what I’d call Cozy Romances, quicker reads with a little mystery or conflict but nothing intense. Doesn’t require a lot of thought or keeping track of characters and great for medicated or exhausting brains for some entertainment. I’d love to just walk around the town and go into the Lonely Tavern!
Hard one. Recognizing that one is most likely to get transported to being a normal legacy (in the the vast majority of people will not end up having the astounding powers that our heroes and heroines do), I would say the Kinsmen Universe and Rada, as the scenery and flowers sound amazing.
I’d want to be transported to inkeeper. Lots of fun magical stuff and still my normal technology lol. Plus a bed and breakfast to run sounds really fun.
I would like to appear in Magic Claims!
My all time fav series is KD, but I would not want to live in that world. Therefore we will go for my second all time fave series!
The world of Mercy Thompson!
The Kate Daniel’s world seems to be my favorite as I dream of it often! 😬
The Innkeeper books but only if I get to be a guest!
Ok, I probably would die when the wall came down, but I’d have to say the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning. Mostly because I’m fascinated by Irish lore and history, plus you get the Scottish side later in the series too. I’d love to see all the fae creatures IRL too 😂
I tell myself happy stories as I lay me down to sleep. One of those stories is stumbling upon an abandoned Inn and making it my own. The Inn Keeper Chronicles are, for all of their adventures, a warm a comforting hug. A family I wouldn’t at all mind finding and joining.
I was a young reader and I don’t know why or how this book came into my radar (young female protagonist maybe?) but I was transported by Madeleine l’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.
Any Innkeeper title, OR Rosalie Fry’s The Secret of the Ron Moor Skerry (a.k.a. Child of the Western Isles, and The Secret of Roan Innish).
Could have chosen forty-eleven more, but tried to think of practical things like plumbing & medicine…
Hmmm only us giveaway … no worries .I would still like to have a say .. sweep of the heart … I loved it … it was the first time I did the read each chapter as it comes …
I miss the original … the published is heavily edited .. the description of each spousal candidate… their entry … how it all ends in a love story …. just vow
This week it would be Darynda Jones’ Charley Davidson series. To know there really is an afterlife that also includes your pets, and of course, being able to look at Reyes.
I remember becoming totally transported and absorbed by Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan.💕
I would want to be in Mercedes Lackey’s Velgarth, specifically Valdemar.
I’d love to live somewhere with magic, if I had magic lol. It would be interesting to live in the hidden legacy world depending on the talent you have.
Sending calm thoughts and a chill weekend to House Andrews!
Ilona, I sure hope your days start being much better! YOU should read a book and let yourself go away into the story for a bit. As the BDH will tell you, we feel much better after reading a good book! lol
If I could choose a book to be transported into, it would need to be one of the In Death books by JD Robb. Most recent being Bonded In Death. Living in that time, although astronomically expensive in New York, is probably pretty good in Texas where I live. Having the auto-chef, and all the other lovely little things available even for middle-class folks, would be absolutely terrific in my opinion. Especially since I’m now 63 and they typically live to the 115 range with all their faculties intact! Think of all the books I could read!!!! LOL
Love to you both!
take care. I have figured out how to read all the chapters of Hugh’s book through the emails you have sent. and I find I have to read a book 10 or 12 times before I can quote it verbatim. so I’ll just re-read it a few times. maybe re-read Sanctuary, I’m good for the duration. if I get antsy, I can always start over with Kate Daniels.
I think I’d really like to be transported into the Inn Keeper world. can I be transported to “Sweep with Me”. I love a great holiday
When I was a child it was either The Little Princess or The Secret Garden. Now, today, stick me in Karen Hawkins’ Dove Pond, sweet, easy cup of tea even though I’m re-reading Kate Daniels. It’s been a long week. Spring break is around the corner and my high schoolers have forgotten how to think. As much as I’d like to zap them all magically, it would much better for all of us if I’m sitting in tea shop quietly sipping tea reading a book that tells me something I need to know.
Would love to be in Kate’s world but too violent for me. So my preference would be something like Disney….where everyone is happy.
Daniel Silva books intrigue me. I keep going back and rereading them.
We will carry on 😹😹 have a good weekend😸
I want to say Tamora Pierce, any of her books, but I actually don’t think I would thrive there without my brain pills. So I’ll say any cozy cottage mystery book set in modern times where I can still be healthy!
So easy. Innkeeper. Doesn’t matter which book, tho probably Sweep with Me.
The Charley Davidson series by Darynda Jones. Thank you so much for the giveaway 😍
I would have to choose Hidden Legacy! modern world, fun and unpredictable magic!
(also I loved reading this thread, I got so many new book recs! thank you all! 😍)
What book would I be transported to? What a difficult question! So many great ones. I would be part of the InnKeeper series, I really like Maude and her prowess with fighting and her political savvy.
The How to Train Your Dragon books. I read them as kid and they’re the origin of my love for dragons — and I still want a dragon friend!!
Andrea Host’s Touchstone universe. I would commute between Tare and Muina. There might be a path to other universes, too, so it’s a win-win.
Number one? The Innkeeper series. There are so many different and interesting worlds to see. Kate Daniel’s world would be the second choice. Can’t take the fantasy lover out of the girl. Or, the Conduit Series/world by Meghan Ciana Doidge.
Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. Fighting the Vord with my own Furies!!! Or A Druid in Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid series.
Innkeeper- I would love a house that morphed and the ability to visit not only other worlds but other dimensions.
Maybe Pern. Dragons love me
Man. That’s a tough one! Going back to childhood I always wanted to live like the Boxcar Children. So I’ll go with that!
Thank you so much for sharing with your readers! Even non-Hugh days are my favorite.
And I’d love to be in post-shift Atlanta, but if not there, I’d be happy hanging out with Monk from Becky Chambers Psalm for the Wild Built.
If I could be transported into a book, it would be Innkeeper. I very much would like to meet Dina and eat Orro’s food. And if I could meet a ‘space chicken,’ so much the better.
Elizabeth Hunter’s Cambio Springs. I’ll take raptor for $100, Alex.
Innkeeper Series.
I want to go to that dimension and see all the wonders of the universe.
I’ve always loved Sci-Fi and Fantasy. That series brings them together for me. The images from the books make a huge impression. All the colors and details. I want to go to the market place of the universe and see it all. Followed by a exquisite meal by Orro.
I’d love to go to Pern, Anne McCaffrey. I dreamed of riding a dragon.
Sweep of the blade grabbed me tight and still has me in its grasp! The characters and world-building was epic!
The book would have to be the Hobbit. For me the childhood book we read as a family. I’ve reread it so many many times the cover cracked. It was my summer escape to dreams, my gateway to a love of books. Now I have my own dragon hoard of books and children of my own that read them.
Hmmm … probably Hidden Legacy or Innkeeper. Sufficiently comfortable, cool, and magical without being ultra dangerous.
My current night time help me sleep audiobook is A Psalm for the Wild Built, so I’m going with that one. It’s by Becky Chambers. Good luck with the desk!
Tamora Pierce’s Tortall where women can be anything so long as you work for it. If I have to be specific, the immortals quartet.
I want to live at the Inn (Innkeeper Chronicles) excellent food, great company, scenery changes on a whim, adventures come to you and a shih tzu. Beast is like a cherry in top as I have 3 shih tzu.
It’s hard to pick just one book out of the Innkeeper series but probably Sweep of the Blade. It’s a novel beyond earth about possibilities. Both good and bad – but in the end the good overcomes the bad.
Magic Claims!! So fascinating especially Kate embracing her powers!
I enjoy all your worlds however I would love to be transported to life with The Baylors! I wouldn’t know who to hang out with first! Nevada/Connor will always be a favorite, but Bern, Lean, Arabella?? Cornelius? Grandma Frida? Love!
I’m too old and unskilled to be fighting monsters, am not into being transformed into a shifter, have no love for vampires and have no magic to speak of. So, like a lot of other folks, it would be the Innkeeper series. Sounds interesting, cozy and delicious!
I would love to help Bowen Knight find a way to help humanity survive. I love the world of Nalini Singh, Ocean Light. The Psy-Changeling Trinity Series.
As much as I would like to say Kate Daniels or Harry Potter, I don’t know that I would be all that special to survive or thrive there. If it was me and my family, probably Winnie the Pooh; my little one would probably like talking stuffed animals. If it were me alone, maybe Tamora Pierce’s Lioness series. Still magical but maybe less deadly for me.
I’d want to go into Lish McBride’s ‘A Little Too Familiar’. Found family, magical pets, and small magics.
Can it be a series? Because I’d love to be in the Hidden Legacy series.
I’ve always been a fan of the X-Men, and have always thought long and hard about which powers I’d have. This world would be perfect.
I would love to go to Gertrude Hunt, only because I would die pretty quickly in any other world 😂
Magic Burns, when I was pulled totally into that world and characters!
I am so sorry things have been tough.
If I had to pick a book, it’d have to be one of hope I didn’t have to pick just one the Innkeeper novels.
I hope it didn’t have to pick just one
For me, it does in fact have to be one of yours lol! Hands down the Kate Daniels series. I love how the world is the same but sooo different! It is my comfort series, (not sure what that says about me) I have re-read it hundreds of times. I have owned it in paperback, ebook, audio and now, graphic audio! i love it and you all for building it! Thanks!!
I’m so excited for Maggie and her world.
It’s so hard to pick a book! After all what makes a good book isn’t necessarily good for a comfortable life.
I would like to visit the Inn so I think Sweep with Me.
Every Kate Daniels book, they always took me inside the book, wonderful world building!
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Maybe this is a reflection on my mental state, but I want to be transported to the Winnie the Pooh universe. Low key, no real crises, and a dependable group of quirky friends. I want just innocent adventures that always have a happy ending in my life right now!
I think I’d love to meet Regan from kf Breene’s DDVN books but also Kate bc I think they’d have so much fun together.
Ah….so many to choose from!
Robert Asprin’s Myth books (the Bazaar at Deva would be awesome) or running with Patricia Briggs’s werewolves. There’s always Kate’s magic riddled earth… but mostly I think I’d want to hang with Nevada and Conner. Too too too too too many options! lol
Sounds like a crazy week at House Andrew’s. I hope next week ends up better for y’all!
The Innkeeper Chronicles. I love the whole idea of so many different worlds and different species, and hot damn, space travel!
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Dungeon Crawler Carl 😉
The Cradle series by Will Wight. Read and listened to waaaay too many times!
Highly recommend them on audible, Travis Baldree is a genius.
The Weird from The Edge series. Yes, it is strange…but also…1. Has magic 2. Can still visit Gertrude Hunt (if I don’t have enough magic and can pass) 3. Gaston. 4. My intro book to House Andrews was The Edge.
the Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. I don’t know why, but imperial court intrigue with elves and goblins and airships just makes me so happy.
Innkeeper, definitely Innkeeper! I want to meet the aliens, and see the galaxy, and maybe find werewolf love. Probably “Sweep of the Heart” so I can get my feet wet with the Spousal Selection… Thanks!
Clean Sweep and the whole Innkeeper series for me – something about the intimate setting of providing shelter and hospitality in contrast to conflicting interstellar cultures and galactic politics – swept away by it all! 🙂
Lois McMaster Bujold’s Chalion world
I think my choice of book into which to be transported would be Garth Nix’s The Seventh Tower series. Yes, it’s young adult; yes, I read it years ago…but there’s something very dark and dystopian Rainbow Brite about it. Colors being castes, light being magic, living shadow partners, a world on the verge of collapse yet no one knows it…
It remains a favorite story of mine to this day. And I would absolutely spend all my time in Aenir playing with–I mean studying–the monsters.
I would love to live in St. Cristian’s neighborhood from Beth Brower’s Unselected Journals of Emma Lion series! (If only because I doubt I would survive in Kate Daniel’s world).
I’d want to be isekai’d into the honor harrington series. preferably onto manticore, but post restoration haven would do as well. I just really, really want to be able to travel through space.
OUTLANDER
If I were to choose, I would of pick Tamora Pierce’s circle of magic books. I love reading that book, and escaping from my life when I was a teen.
Written in Red by Anne Bishop. I’d love to be part of Megs girl gang.
I’m currently in the middle of a Psy/Changeling Trinity reread so that’s the world I want to live in, preferably as a Changeling in one of the packs. The Trinity Pact, featuring cooperation between the three races and a striving to better their world, is just the kind of hope I need right now.
I LOVE the KD and Hidden Legacy!! However, To Kill a Mockingbird would be my choice. It was such a cleverly written novel.
I am sorry to hear about your hard week. Some of them are like that.
I would love to be transported into Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders Trilogy. Sentient ships, dragon kin, feisty characters? Sign me up.
Psy Changling world of Nalini Singh or hidden Legacy
Divine Apostasy universe. I find it endlessly fascinating. Do not enter me in the giveaway <3
harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone (any of them really)
A clean sweep! Take care of yourself and listen to your artistic sense, as it is telling you something about Hugh.
Silver shark
All books transport me, the book that started my life long love of reading is Robert Heinlein Tunnel in the Sky.
Hang in there House Andrews and be kind to yourselves!
I have read so many wonderful books I don’t know how to choose. I think I’m finally settling on Sanctuary. Roman is sheer delight.
This will show how old I am. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey,
Just finished a re-read of Hugh 1 😄
Sigh … I must break the rules …. here are 2:
Lorna Freeman’s Covenant trilogy
and
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison’s Keltaid series
Oh no life is being a bit of a beast lately!! Hope you get some rest soon!! Hugh will be a pa**ient warlord!!
I’d want to be transported into the Innkeepers series. Make me a member of the holy anocr or maybe even a lees just so I can find all the cool shiny!! Happy giveaway all!
If magic suddenly transported me into a book I know I’d end up in Middle-Earth. I know The LOTR books inside and out. I reread them every few years (including the Silmarillion) and have the world, its people, and history memorized. My father started read me chapters of The Hobbit when I was 6 so there is family nostalgia and personal moments of him wrapped up with Tolkien.
A Wrinkle in Time
I would want to be transported to the Innkeeper’s world. Literally worlds of possibilities are open. Plus there would still be the conveniences of our modern life like Wally-World but also magic. Well, technology but
“…any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. …The broom is magic. The inn is magic. I’m magic. I can feel it, I can manipulate it, but I can’t explain it. …Why does it matter now that it’s not?”
Plus infinite redecoration possibilities sounds awesome.
I must choose amongst your amazing worlds? This is outright torture. Well, if forced, I would say the Inkeeper series.
Please take the time and care to recover and recharge. We all love your stories, and are not as patient as we might be, but please don’t run yourselves into disfunction.
All our best wishes and be happy!
Burn for Me jumped out of my head.
I would love to be in the sweep series; especially as someone on the know. An inn keeper child would be awesome.
I would want to be a green robed Healer in Valdemar, although an Innkeeper would also be pretty awesome.
I question if you are actually TOO far into the Iron and Magic world with the way the universe keeps throwing punches at you! : (
The first book I ever lost myself in was Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. I was so angry at Lavinia, who bullied Sara Crewe, that at one point I threw the book across the room. I think I was ten.
The first time I visited London, I spent ages looking up at all the houses with garrets so I could picture her life more clearly. I feel like I would have the same sense of connection if I ever went to the Edge.
If I could fall into a book for real, I’d jump into Red Wall, I just want to experience one of those feasts and run around as a fat mouse with dandelion ale and a cheese wheel.
If I could be transported into a book, there are many to choose from, but I’d want to be transported into Orconomics 🙂
In years gone by, I would’ve chosen and keeper of course. Now I need something more soothing if I’m going to be transported to live there. I think I would prefer to live either in Becky Chambers’ Psalm world or Victoria Godard’s multiverse
A permanent guest in the Innkeeper series!!
Your Inn series, all of them. I own all of your books and reread them often to keep calm in this political climate. But the Inn series wins by a broomstick
The Aubrey & Maturin book series by Patrick O’Brian, as long as I am also cured of seasickness!
Ooooooh… I’m going to say Kate Daniels even though I think my life expectancy would be very very short. 😂
Hawk of May, by Gillian Bradshaw, 1980.
This is my favorite Arthurian story. The other two books in the series switch character viewpoints and didn’t hook me the same way, but this book is a treasure.
So many books I love to be transported into like hidden legacy series that would be cool but so would Kate Daniels books to drop in to and check out Magic and tech changes. But then there are Patricia Briggs books with Mercy Thompson and also a indie writer K. Banet with Jackie leon. so many books I would love to just drop into and be a part of the fantasy!!!
I would choose Magic Bites to watch Kate and Curran’s first encounter. That would be so much fun “Here Kitty Kitty” 🤗
Very difficult to choose. I think it would be the Innkeeper’s world. But….so many others…
I love reading about Kate Daniels’ world but living in it for real, no thank you! The Innkeeper world seems safe enough for living aside from the heat of rural Texas.
Megan Ciana Doidge’s Vancouver in Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Magic sounds wonderful – the descriptions of the cupcakes and the thought behind them make me want my very own special treat in a city that is magical in real life surrounded by incredible natural beauty.
Life happens, and Hugh will arrive when it’s time – Hugh always has his own way of doing things!
A Wrinkle in Time or The Phantom Tollbooth.
I would wish to be transported as the main character in David Baldacci’s “The Winner.”
If I were to transport into a book, I would love to transport to The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I can see myself as Morwen with tons of cats and not dealing with nonsense. I’d love to melt wizards and be friends with dragons!
Lord love a duck! Be well and take time to rest your bodies and minds!
Burn for me.
The Raksura series by Martha Wells.
I wanted to be Daine in Tortall so, so badly when I was a kid. She could communicate with animals! That was the coolest thing I could imagine. Once I got older, I was more drawn to Ali – Alanna’s daughter – who knew all the coolest tricks and who helped topple a corrupt regime. But either way, Tamora Pierce’s Tortall is it for me. I might even know enough to survive it!
Please don’t worry about us, the BDH. We can be patient for Hugh 2 (I think lol). For myself it would be the JD Robb In Death series as I want to experience an autochef and drying tube. 🙂
Anne bishop’s Written in Red because it’s the first of the Other series and I really want to live in that world.
If I don’t have powers upon entering, if would have to be one where I can gain powers. Kate Daniels is a series I know so much about that at the very least I can become a shapeshifter and use my foreknowledge of the series. If I had choice of my powers I would choose the hidden legacy series. Tbh even without the caveat of needing to be an IA book, I gravitate to them bc the worldbuilding is done so well that I feel like I truly know the world I’d venture into. The only other one I’d try would be the Heralds of Valdemar series but I’d be taking a gamble on if a companion would Choose me.
Any of the Innkeeper books! I would love to be a guest at an Inn.
I want to be an Innkeeper.
reading for me is like being transported into another world. I would love to go the world set up in the Wrinkle in Time Series. I have always loved the description of the Murray’s old farm house. It always sounded super cozy.
That is a hard one but my pre-teen heart fell in love with the dragon riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey many years ago and what started me on reading fantasy! Harper hall of Pern was my first book series obsession. So I would have to say I would have to live in Pern and become either a dragon rider or a Harper.
I would say my favorite book, Magic Strikes, but I don’t think I’d survive Kate’s world. Clean Sweepto sample Oro’s cooking would be great.
Why does this make me have to think so hard…
Nalini Singh – Psy-Changling world I think wins, just because of the possibilities.
Really struggling on this one. I have a low tolerance for pain and enjoy modern comforts.
I feel like this strikes out Kate Daniels, Hidden Legacy, Mercy Thompson, Anne McCaffery, and most of what I read. Heck- even Harry Potter is going through a lot of hard stuff.
Maybe a safe Ramona’s World by Beverly Cleary 🙂
Maybe a safe June
Definitely Hidden Legacy. I would love to join a family meal. That would be fun!
That’s really difficult. Either Innkeeper or Hidden Legacy.
Do you think we could ever have a peek at what it looks like when inn seeds hatch? Do you plant them in existing structures? Does only Earth have them?
Heir of Novron by Michael j. Sullivan. I love your books but I’d really like to meet Hadrian Blackwater and Royce Melborn.
Pam Martin.
Burn for Me jumped out. Must be thinking of the new Graphic Audio.
Hope you have some relaxing time soon.
Definitely the Innkeepers and I’d start at the very beginning with Sweep In Peace (Even though there is no Orro yet!)
Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) series by R. J. Blain. Gotta love the chaos created by the devil!
I would want to explore Sartorias-deles, the world Sherwood Smith created! Particularly Remalna, and get a chance to see or hear the Hill Folk.
Artistry takes time. Take all you need! We CAN be patient.
Positive Vibes (woo woo) to you! Um, most of the worlds I read about are pretty scary (covers face) but the Innkeepers universe? The homey feel of Dina’s Gertrude Hunt gives me all the feels. Just finished a reread of the entire series.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! I want to sit on a mushroom and smoke hookah with a caterpillar!
I Dare
The first time I was transported into a book, it would have to be Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I bought it when it first came out, and it sat on my shelf for a long time. My mom needed something to read and I gave it to her and she raved about it, so I decided to give it a try. And then I was in love with it.
However, I lately have an obsession with Naomi Novik. I really like her Scholomance series.
Nolander by Becca Mills. Very different from anything else and so well written
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, as you can imagine I was thrilled when it was adapted to film by Hayao Miyazaki. That book had A HOLD on me as a preteen, I even wrote to DWJ once as a kiddo and she wrote back and sent me an (out of print) book! One of my regrets in life is I never wrote back to thank her, not even sure why other than being young and just over the moon with a new book. Sadly, by the time I tried to rectify that mistake she had already passed away. Every series she wrote had such a whimsically created world with extremely unique characters that felt so real! In a lot of ways her world building reminds me so much of yours! It’s not hard to imagine what book I’d want to be transported to, because I’ve been doing that since I was a kid lol
I have been transported too many times to tell but one that I especially remember was when I was reading one of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time books. It was a snowstorm in the book and when I looked up and it was snowy outside I was confused, how could this be? I used that example to try to entice my niece and nephews to want to read.
Innkeeper— I’d want to hang out with Maude
Oh man the choices! But I love Tortall so so much!
Bayou moon. I don’t know why but the concept the the double world and being able to cross over, It would be such a crazy experience. Good luck to you guys!!! You’re doing great!!!!
One of my favorite books of my youth, Engine Summer, by John Crowley. It would certainly be an interesting world in which to live.
The Luckless! I was an early fan of LitRPG and loved this one when it came out.
Thank you!
Any of the Kate Daniels book. I would probably die in 5 minutes but I also might turn into something cool when magics up. Totally worth it.
The Discworld books of Terry Pratchett wouldn’t be the worst bet for me.
Somewhat silly sure (dangerous too) but full of interesting folks of all types. Knowing that the world was fundamentally created by a kind individual who believed in humanity.
And the comfort of knowing at the end I’d meet a kindly Death.
The _Ex Libris_ series by Jim Butcher. Access to other book worlds!
I’d love to say I’d like to be dropped in the world of Kate Daniels… but there’s so many weird and crazy things that happen I don’t think I’d make it! So my pick is going to be any of the books from Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series.
I love your books now, as an adult. But the first sci-fi or fantasy type of book that I ever read was Tik-Tok of Oz. I must have been about nine. Up until then I’d been crazy about dogs and horses, reading books like Call of the Wild, Smoky, and Black Beauty. I don’t even know where I picked up the scruffy copy of Tik-Tok but it opened up a whole new world to me. I read that book over and over until it fell apart. I want to go to Oz.
Keep your chin up!
I would be a Barrani Lord in one of the Cast in books by Michelle Sagara
Rebecca. It is sooo good!
Hmm, If I were transported into a book: Innkeepers. Kate’s world is also an excellent choice if I can be just an invisible lurker, not a participant…feel a bit that way with the Altered Carbon/Broken Angels/Woken Furies sci-fi series by R. Morgan…but HA books have nicer, humorous, friendly characters.
Hope you both get some rest & that life begins treating you better. Thanks for thinking of the BDH!
The Kate Daniels series would be an interesting universe to live in because of the switch between magic and mundane. Things are challenging but not impossible. Interesting stuff happens around you but you can live a fairly normal live
I hope you guys get some well deserved rest soon!
The book I’d want to be in is Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger. It’s probably my favorite book of all time.
I should not go to any of my favorite books. As a normal person dropped into magical and violent world, this would go badly. A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy might be a better choice. I might survive as a joke.
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
I’d choose the HL universe. Animal mages? Yes please!
If I was transported into a book, I think I would like one of Ali Hazelwood’s books (women in STEM!), or into the Mercy Thompson series, as part of Mercy’s pack and under her umbrella of protection. But, I think being in House Andrews’ Hidden Legacy series would also be kinda awesome!
I would love to be in the “All the Weyrs of Pern” world. You would get to experience the end of thread and the safety of the world without fear of it.
AND DRAGONS!!!!!!
AND DRAGONRIDERS!!!!!
*swoon*
The Saints of Steel by T Kingfisher
as long as I’m like Maggie and get dropped in! lol. I need to retain my knowledge of modern plumbing and get to work for the White Rat and White Rat only.
Inn Keeper, Hidden Legacy or Kate Daniels, Edgers, pretty much any world created Ilona Andrews cause they’re that good..
BTW, Rest up, House Andrews, everybody deserves a break sometimes 😄
I would want to live in Tamora Pierce’s Tortall! Probably her Wildmage series-having unusual animal magic and making a family out of a diverse array of wonderful (and magical) people was my childhood dream.
Magic Tides
I am re-reading the series. I love grown-up Kate. I feel like we should be neighbors.
I would totally live in the Edge. It’s one of my favorite worlds, and I think I would fit in well there!
A galley would be AMAZING to have! Please, please, please!
I’m feeling sentimental today, I’ll have to say Harry Potter. My boyfriend once gave me a hand drawn train ticket to Hogwarts.I bawled. To this day, I still tear up every time I think about it.
Tunnel in the Sky by Heinlein. One of the first science fiction books I read as a kid. I wanted to live in that universe.
You asked a question “which book do you sink into?” I have difficulty falling asleep, currently I’m immersed in the audio book “Sweep With Me.” I read the entire series when it was first published. Recently, I acquired the audiobook. The narrator is excellent. I put on my headphones and I’m transported to another place and time. The characters, are real and every night the come alive in my imagination. I’m usually fast asleep by the end of the chapter. The story continues to play, even though I’m sleeping. For some people, this would be a distraction that keeps them awake. Not for me. I am, someone who wakes up frequently during the night. Because I know the story it doesn’t matter what chapter I’m on if I awaken. I listen for a few minutes and drift back into sleep. My spouse does not understand why I continue to listen to the same book night after night. At some point I will switch to another book but for now this one is my bedtime companion.
I’d want to be transported into the Legendborn Cycle universe but I’d have to be able See the aether, root, and demon.
I’m going to say book one of one of the first series I ever became obsessed with. Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. My mom introduced me to the first book way back in the early 90’s. It’s a comfort read. “Outlander”
My favorite series is Anne Bishop’s Others series. Ilike the idea of a world where humans aren’t number one. A week at the Jumble at Lake Silence would be a great way to dip in a toe without dying.
I also am a fan of Lois McMaster Bujold’s. Lately I have been reading and enjoying *Memory*.
so, so many imaginary worlds to choose from aside from all of yours, Edge, Innkeeper, Kate, Nevada.
One world I am really enjoying is set in just post WWI London by C. J. Archer and is the Glass and Steele world. There is a Library involved, and I would like to be there with books both magical and benign. Not the greatest time or place, but Library……
I would love to be stuck in the Innkeeper books! But only if I were in the know. I definitely want the chance to visit other worlds and try Orro’s cooking.
It would be innkeepers for me! Love Dina and the gang.
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry — a world where community bonds people together, where even the scariest people in your building are there to protect you, where lives are interwoven and life is gentle and clean. I’d want to live out some of it and come back home.
Anne McCaffrey’s The Dragonriders of Pern.
I would love to be in Lloyd Alexanders’s mythical land of Prydain with Taran and Eilonwy. Taran Wanderer in particular!
I would want to live in the dragon riders of Pern. I don’t think I would survive very long in the kate danieks world!
I always wanted to live in the world of The Hobbit. Not the ring cycle, not during the war, but to be a hobbit of the Shire during the peaceful times would be bliss.
Harry Potter, hands down. Magical light academia, all the charms (hehe) of the Wizarding world alongside ours, transportation is a thought or pinch of Floo powder away, the convenience of magic at your fingertips for every day needs…
Seriously, the way I would abuse the Accio spell alone is good enough reason.
Kurtherian gambit
hate spell check
Tuesday by David Weisner.
Howl’s Moving Castle! It’s cozy yet hectic, and saturated with magic. In a lot of ways, it has quite a bit in common with the Innkeeper Chronicles, now that I think about it.
Probably Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni series. I know! A blast from the past. But I remember being stationed in Germany, and haunting the post bookstore impatiently waiting for the next book in the series.
First started reading Andre Norton,pretty much all of hers. Spider phobia still a work in progress. The first full world building fantasy book that sucked me in, Dune. Which is why I like you works. Character driven full worlds. First post, apologize wordy.
Before reading the Innkeeper series, it definitely would’ve been Narnia. I love all the talking animals and there’s so much to explore. But now it’s Innkeeper, hands down! I’d love to run an inn. But first I want to explore Baha Char and as many worlds as possible. I love so many different peoples coming together.
I would love to live in the innkeeper world (in Gertrude Hunt, naturally).
I fantasize about learning to cook with Orro, or taking lessons on politics with Her Grace.
I would love to be a regular returning guest to Dina’s Inn, eat some of Orro’s fantastic cooking, and meet all the characters.
Thank you!
I’d love to drop into Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings! I want to visit the Shire, Rohan, and Gondor. Although it might be best to visit during The Hobbit for safety reasons.
The Hobbit. The story that started it all for me. I still have the paperback with my kiddie signature inside the front cover. 🙂
I just finished Long of the Fading Lands by C.L. Wilson (for like the 5th time) and I love the magic and honor and beauty of that world. Especially if I was fae.
If I was transported into a book, I would like it to be Carla Kelly’s “Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career.”
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard. It’s a fantastic fantasy world where the main character has managed to rebuild and restructure the government and world to be a good place for everyone. There’s a universal stipend, the slums have been turned into beautiful community housing that provides education and opportunities for whatever is needed. It’s a beautiful world that shows how people can make a difference without force or violence. The main character is a bureaucrat who does his best work through diplomacy and empathy (and the complete support of his Emperor) to turn the Empire into a system that stewards the resources of all to the benefit of all. It’s never easy, but it is nice to see a world where people are not just allowed to flourish, but have everything they need to do so (including the leeway to stop working).
i like the edge world because you can go from the normal mundane to the magical world easily. i like the families and friends and neighbors snd coworkers in both worlds. they seem like folks i could hang with. 🙆🏽♀️🙆🏽♀️🙆🏽♀️🥰🥰🥰
For an IA book, I’d have to go with something from Hidden Legacy. “Regular” world with a bunch of specialty magic!
I also think the absurdity and intelligence of John Scalzi would be fun – The Kaiju Preservation Society. Save the world, one beastie at a time!
On the Edge so that I could see the it in the moonlight.
I’d love to live in the innkeepers world, I don’t think I’d survive in kds world😂
Or the pay-changeling world of Nalini Singh’s
Thanks for the chance!
I would love to be transported to the Kate Daniels world. Just for the aesthetic. I want to be able to wear a cloak over my jeans and carry both a sword and a gun while fighting monsters.
To be fair, most of my favorite books, including from HA are set in terrifying worlds. Unless I got a serious skill boost, I would die within the day. For this reason m, I feel like I would be best dropped in Clean Sweep. I think Dina would protect me. I could just set up my retirement across the hall from Caldenia
You know how some questions you don’t really have to think about the answer? Yours wasn’t one of them, lol. So many books resonate within me that picking just one is difficult. However, when I was young, my way of thinking was heavily influenced by Diane Duane. If I had to pick a book in which I was a character, I think I would start with The Door Into Fire. The religion is alive, you are guaranteed to meet the Goddess in person at least once in your lifetime (whether you recognize her or not). The people are mostly human with all the foibles and follies that one can expect, yet largely accepting and accommodating of each others differences. Magic is real. There is room for growth and change in the world, even for the entropic entities. There is always hope. I love that.
There are so many options to choose from, but I would pick a place where I could find comfort, peace, good food (especially potatoes), and family. I would choose The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. I would love living in the Shire! Simple living with plenty of time to read books and garden…and eat multiple times a day.
To be fair, most of my favorite books, including from HA are set in terrifying worlds. Unless I got a serious skill boost, I would die within the day. For this reason m, I feel like I would be best dropped in Clean Sweep. I think Dina would protect me. I could just set up my retirement across the hall from Caldenia
Anne Bishop The world of the Others and Jayne Castle Harmony series love those dust bunnies.
As much as I’d like to live in Kate Daniels’ Atlanta, I doubt I’d survive long! So for safety, I’ll pick the Innkeeper universe 🙂
Hope things calm down!
I think I would choose Meljean Brook’s Iron Seas world. In that world I could choose to be infected with nanoagents that would keep me healthy and strong—wouldn’t want to be a vanilla human in a world with supernatural and magic users 😉
ISEKAI me into any Jan Brett collection 🤣🙋♀️♥️
What book world would I want to be in? Okay, I’m going full cliche. I’m going to LOTR and I’m living in Hobbiton. I know, being an elf in that world would be cooler, but I want a garden and a round hobbit door. And flowers.
I reread all of your books over and over. Just love them. My go to for comfort and to just sink into a great story and become a part of it. So any of them would be amazing, but I especially would like to see Shape shifters and the Keep in Kate Daniels world. It would be incredible to see or be a shifter or some other magic user. To see Cutting Edge and to travel by layline to see Hugh and Elara’s castle. To experience the magic waves and to meet characters like Roman and Luther, and to watch Andrea shoot or eat one of Martha’s honey muffins….
Yours: Hidden Legacy series, particularly Catalina’s trilogy, hands down. Other authors: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series. I could be a perfectly happy hobbit!
I think I would want to be transferred to Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next universe, probably book 6 (One of Our Thursdays is Missing). I have always adored the idea that you could read yourself into a book like a portal.
For me? It’s between the Discworld, the world of JD Robb’s In Death series, or Narnia. As much as I love your books, I’d never survive. It’s hard enough right now as is in the US. 🤷🏻♀️
it’s going to sound wild but Twilight. Odds are i get some form of super power before I get turned into a vampire which is cool. Also the vampires can walk in the sun. the glitter can easily be fixed with some foundation.
Although I LOVE the Kate Daniels world, I would die if I was transported to those books. 😛 So I will go with Clean Sweep, I would love to be an Innkeeper! And I’d love to be as badass as Maud, but I know I’m not. hehehe
Diane Duane’s So You Want to Be a Wizard series. I can’t count how many times I recited the wizard’s oath when I was a kid.
Man-O-War. This book kindled my love of reading, and I would love to see Big Red running. It would also be a dream to be in Orro’s kitchen and taste his food, so the Innkeeper world too 🤗
My first choice is the Innkeeper book that doesn’t exist as yet. That’s correct. I want to attend the wedding. Ambitious, but you asked what I really wanted…
I was absolutely transported into Red Adams Lady (Grace Ingram, rediscovered classics) and the 13th century. The research she must have done to make living in that time come alive as Lady Julitta moved through it was amazing. And the storyline of a poor relation not properly protected being kidnapped by a young drunken knight who has recently received a castle and lands for his valorous deeds in overseas war with France is enthralling. Who has captured whom? There is a festering battle with factions who are not loyal to the king, and the brutal Scots raiding across the border are always a danger. I couldn’t put it down.
That is a tough question that I can’t give a one-book answer. I’ve had whole series transport me — your books and others. Innkeeper, Hidden Legacy, and]Kate, but also Honor Raconteur’s Case Files, Anne Bishop’s the Others, and Susan Copperfield’s Royal States novels. Copperfield’s books helped me through my mother’s passing last summer. I was sitting beside her re-reading one when she died. I was caught up in the book and it took me a minute to realize I wasn’t hearing her breathing (she was almost 97.)
All of the books in these series are ones I can just pick up and be totally immersed in regardless of how many times I’ve read them. Great characters with strong ethics, interesting plots, and fun and relaxing reads.
Immediately into the Brambly Hedge universe where I can be an anthropomorphic mouse wearing Victorian fashion, living in a cozy house, and Brambly Hedge activities.
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern cause telepathic dragons and dolphins that talk and gypsies…
But I’d also love to be guest in Dina’s Inn…
And like, hundreds of other worlds… sigh
For sure I’d want to be transported into the Innkeeper books, no hesitation lol!
If I could choose to be an angel, I would love to be in Nalini Singh’s Archangel world. But if I was a regular person, I’d love to be in the Innkeeper
Blindsighted, by Karin Slaughter. I was emotionally involved to the point I had to wait before I read Kisscut, because I wasn’t ready to deal with more trauma to the characters without taking a break.
I’m sorry it’s been so hard to write Hugh. He’s a complicated character I can see how it takes a lot of creative juice. I would like to be transported into Harry Potter… largely so Madam Pomfrey can fix all the random crap that is broken in my body.
I think it would have to be Shelley Laurenston’s Honey Badger series.
I have them read them far to many times, but I can’t help myself…Honey Badgers!!
Stephen King The Stand first published book. Not the one you can get now. It was scary and as it turns out somewhat prophetic.
My very first memory of picking out a book on my own was at the old public library in my town in the 60’s. The children’s books were in the basement and I still remember the smell. I picked up The Borrowers. This is where it started for me. I was maybe second grade. That book was the magic that started my love of escape through reading.
Okay so I LOVE the KD series, I mean, who wouldn’t love Derek or Curran!? And all the crazy in Atlanta, sign me up please.
But a world to pick? One word.
Dragons😍
So gotta currently go with Fourth Wing for a world to dive into 🩵
I would love to be transported into Sweep in Peace! Not only because staying at an Inn sounds amazing but also because I desperately want to try Orro’s chicken 😋
The book I would want to be transported into depends on if I get magic powers or not like if I’m a magic user in the world I’d want to be in Hidden Legacy but if I’m just a regular human I’d do the cozy world of Innkeeper. That way I could learn about aliens and magic but I’d also be relatively safe.
Too many good books to pick!
I’m re-reading (listening) to The Circle Opens by Tamora Pierce right now, so that was at the top of my mind, but I love the Hobbit or the Innkeeper Chronicles as a destination, too… Somewhere calm & cozy where I hear about adventures and fights because I’m pretty sure I don’t have FMC energy.
The Miss Fortune series by Jana DeLeon. I want to move to Sinful and join the team!
Love your books. The world to be transported to: Schooled in Magic by Christopher Nuttall.
I would want to be plopped into the end of Magic Claims. I want to see the new community Kate and Curren are building in real time. And I really want to pet some ice age animals.
The Disc World, I have always loved Terry Pratchett and would be on pins and needles waiting for his next book.
I hope next week is kinder to you.
Probably the Innkeeper world if it was guaranteed I could find my way to an inn and if I could somehow convince them to let me stay/work there.
I feel like working in one of those Inns even as something really boring and menial would be a dream job.
You get to learn and interact with alien races without having to travel or even leave the house. Said house is magical and will likely be the best place you’ve ever stayed at. Although not everyone has an Orro level chef, I think most of the inns have good food.
Also, I feel like it’s one of the few series where I could get to the cool magical stuff without dying. In most urban fantasy series, like the Kate Daniel series, I would step two feet outside of my home and then get murdered by something.
People in the inns are usually pretty safe unless some main plot stuff is happening in one of them.
The biggest obstacle would be actually trying to *find* an inn. It’d be hard to ask around about it without sounding like I was having some sort of delusion. (I also wouldn’t likely even know I was in a book unless it was really obvious since our worlds are so similar.)
I also don’t have a great memory so I’d have a hard time finding an inn based on what I’ve read.
I would probably end up in Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series — I’ve read and reread so many times sometimes it feels I’ve already lived there!
Scott G. Gier’s Genellan PlanetFall. A very down to earth adventure of humans exploring into space and the challenges involved and how we might encounter and deal with both new enemies and new allies as we explore the universe. Sadly, he never finished the series.
Nalini Singh’s Archangel series. I would live in NY and run a rooftop coffee shop for angels.
First of all, ZenHugs! hope this week is much better, 2nd Can I be a book Jumper? wouldn’t THAT be a fun plot line, sort of like a time lord but a secret team of Librarians saving books from Censorship Bastidges, farging Iceholes even.
Always kinda liked Sapphire Flames for the finding friendship arch, friends are an underappreciated asset, Also one of the reasons I rather like Arabella, I think she’s a steadfast person, more like her Mom than the others, Also why I think she needs a calm person not a hot head. wait I wandered off, so secret giveaway
Sapphire Flames
Kindly,
MissBHavens as usual
It has to be the Harry Potter books – but without the drama lol. Just me and my fellow Hufflepuffs learning about potions and spells.
I’d like to be transported into Pern, maybe as a dragon rider, if i was so lucky as to be chosen. Thanks!
Oh, this is tough! Final answer is Hidden Legacy, purely for modern convenience in everyday life plus powers. Close tie against the Innkeeper books and Immortals/Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce though!
Nalini Singh’s psy/changeling universe. I’ve wanted to be part of that world for years…even if I had to stay human 🙂
During this last week, my home and all my possessions burned up in the crabapple fire. I would like to be transported to the Hidden Legacy world so that I could’ve saved my house
Definitely take care of yourself while writing the book.
I would pick the Kate Daniels world. I know if I showed up at Kate’s door and told her I was in trouble and didn’t know how to survive she would help me out. It’s a well established fact that she collects broken people and turns them into dangerous people. I would love to be one of her projects.
I’d love to visit the Innkeeper series world as long as I could stay (or work!) at Dina’s inn and visit Baha Char
Sweep of the Heart. ❤️
I would love to be transported into the Wild Fire. I love the family dynamic and wish I had that much love from my own family.
Any of the Innkeepers (although I have to admit Sweep of the Blade is my favorite). May your next week be better than this one!
My first dip into fantasy novels were The Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. I first found your books with The Edge series. You hooked me from there and there’s no way I could pick which series you write as a favorite as they all hold a special place.
Totally the Vorkosigan universe, but not on Barrayar! Probably Beta Colony, or maybe Komarr.
I read Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz when I was 10 years old and fell in love with world building. I would always go back, in person or by book.
I love all of your books, but I have been enchanted with Manderley from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier since I was young.
I do not have Main Character Energy and I could really use some comfy cozy right now, so I’d love to visit the Inn and spend some time eating Orro’s food and designing a perfect room.
Play of passion by Nalini Singh
I’d go to SJM’s Throne of Glass world, specifically Terrasen, after the war is over because I can’t run that fast. Or fight.
I sink into any one of your stories. I can also sink into most of Nalini Singh stories. I love the worlds and the characters seem so real.
Growing up, I always liked the Dealing with Dragons (Patricia Wrede) world. Alternately, being an actual space ship like Helva (the ship who sang) seems so very different and amazing.
I would love to be in the inn keepers series. It’s where cats and dogs (other cute creatures) are not what they seem. Coffee, my favorite life sustaining beverage gets vampires drunk and most of all Orro! a beautiful temperamental chef of the highest culinary talents.
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness, being an Anglophile. Glad Sookie is okay. Congrats on Maggie. Missing Hugh–just sayin’.
Hmmm. . . So many universes to choose from! I would probably pick Baum’s Oz, though. It was the first book series I was transported by, and I read the 14 book series over and over as a child, and then read them to my own children. The gentle adventures are exciting without being too scary, and you always know things will turn out all right. In an uncertain world, that can be a comforting feeling. Thanks for all that you do!
I’ve browsed through the comments and agree with the thought that I most likely could not survive in the worlds of my favorite books…but if I could choose my physical transformation (and also perhaps gain magic abilities in the transport), hmmm…
Mercy Hills Pack Series by Ann-Katrin Byrde
I’m going with Sweep with Me – an inn during Treaty Stay, yum. But I was really tempted by Dragonsinger from HarperHall Pern books by Anne McCaffrey.
A Walk Out of the World by Ruth Nichols. I read it when I was an adolescent and it just pulled me in and didn’t let go. I still keep a copy to this day.
I think I would like to live on the world of Preservation from The Murderbot Diaries, it seems like a chill place and it means I might be able to be friends with a snarky android.
Est pray love is the book I’d pick. No fighting, monsters or gods trying to kill me. Modern enough to deal with social etiquettes without treated as lesser since female. Also food and travel.
Hope you get a breather soon
I’d love to be transported into the innkeeper world, sweep of the heart. it would be so cool to see all the different characters and aliens and maybe participate in a little subterfuge. Hugh is awesome and we can wait for you to feel better!
Kate daniels or innkeeper
The White Deer
By James Thurber
A fantastic whimsical read
The Once & Future King by T. H. White has stuck with me since my youngest teens and I wouldn’t mind taking a trip to that realm. Even without all the luxuries we have now. I can imagine the drudgery & all else of being a serving maid, but to be able to listen to the conversation happening at the “Round Table”. What a tradeoff… This is the book I would memorize if we lived in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. There are so many books that I have read as I started going to the library, on the bus, by myself, in LA when I was in 3rd grade. I am towards the end of my early 70’s, so that is a lot of books. Since I am paging thru my memories of books read ~ does anyone remember the Mushroom Planet books? The 1st was released in 1954 discovered by me in 1958, my 1st remembered exposer to SF. I am forever grateful to the librarian that handed me that book.
Sorry for your woes. I know Hugh is difficult for y’all at the best of times; hope things are better this week.
I have an extremely difficult time picking just one series out of the many I have read. Someone already chose Anne of Green Gables so I’m going to choose something else. Actually two something else. The Penny Parrish Series by Janet Lambert or the All of A Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor. The Penny Parrish series is for young adults and the All of a Kind Family series is for children. They share a common theme of family coming together in good times and bad. They are hart warming. 🙂 I would love to spend time with either of these families.
Plan B, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
I think Hidden Legacy! It seems like a fun (modern) world where I could be a normal person and still have perks!
I would love to be an innkeeper!
The Hidden Legacy universe, and hopefully with some powers enabling me to fight evil alongside the Baylors.
I read constantly, but your books I read over and over (all of them!) I am very partial to Kate Daniels adventures in Atlanta and Wilmington!
if I can be an Inn Keeper that series, otherwise Kate Daniels, roll the dice and see what the world are and me would be like.
I think my way of thinking about (any) girl’s future was adjusted, then totally blown when I read Tamara Pierce’s Protector of the Small series, specifically Lady Knight. The trials Kel went through and the absolute abuse and crap she had to put up with to become a Knight resonated deeply with me. The TORTAL series are all my favorites and I would recommend them to all when I worked as a school librarian.
Any world from a book??? My first gut choice would be the in Death book from JD Robb… just to have those autochef machines would make life so much easier!!! Then maybe Kate Daniels to meet everyone,
Zodiac Academy ONLY if I get to have powers. If I don’t get powers, then InnKeeper series so I can see the universe’s wonders.
I would transport to Hidden Legacy. As a personal secret when younger, circa 1970’s-1990’s, I would have dreams that I was in a school for magic. Bland classrooms but shooting blue flames and learning to fly which I struggled learning.
Iron and Magic.
An adjustable desk for $100? Amazing. Man life is lifing for us all these days. Sorry to hear about your pet, your desk, and your mojo being interrupted. I am reading a military sci fi series and there is an SI (synthetic intelligence) named Irina that reminds me a lot of you. She is a great character. The Hughdom is safe in your hands. We are your patient devotees. Hugh is going great too. Enjoying it very much. Hang in there.
Magical Midlife Meeting – my favorite of the Leveling Up Series. Magic, over 40, strong, quirky, funny crew.
If I could be in any book, I think I would go with Nalini Singhs Psy-Changeling world. If I could choose, I’d be some kind of cat changeling.
I had a whole bunch of books I thought about, Innkeeper or HL at the top of the list, but honestly? I still want my letter to Hogwarts the most. 🤷♀️
Hang in there, HA! Life happens and there’s no point getting stressed about it.
Sunshine by Robin McKinley. I really want to eat those baked good she makes. Cinnamon roll as big as your head? Bitter Chocolate Death? sign me up!
I think I would like living in the Innkeeper world. I love the Kate Daniels world. But I need running water and other modern comforts.
definitely, Pern. Dragonflight, I guess, if I have to pick a title. I would love the chance to Impress a dragon <3
Sweep of the Blade…this book has eveything. Space travel, magic, Vampires, cute animal aliens, scary insect aliens, space pirates, sword fights and romance. what more is needed?
Innskeeper universe would be fun to explore.
I’d want to live in the Hidden Legacy books! Magic please! The world is similar to ours just way cooler, with a touch of terrifying. I’m here for it.
I just finished The Games Gods Play. So much fun! I’ve read all of yours, so branching out.
I love all of your series so choosing is impossible therefore I am going rogue. mostly because I want t ride a dragon…I would like to enter Honor Raconteurs’s Tomes series. The dragons, the magic, the world building…and did I mention dragons.
All the best with the new series I am really looking forward to it.
As much as I love all the worlds created by House Andrews, if I could be an innkeeper in the Innkeeper world, that would be amazing. I think I would totally kill it as an innkeeper!
If I can’t pick my role, I would love to explore either The Edge or one of Sharon Shinn’s worlds … maybe Elemental blessings.
lois mcmaster bujold’s Penric series. Thank you for this opportunity.
I think most of the fictional worlds I like would result in a very quick/very painful death, so that’s a definite bummer.
But if I’m going to go out, I’d like to at least see Harry Dresden and Chicago before I go.
– I almost immediately regret this choice 🙂
I have to go with the Innkeeper series. Right now I want peace and for someone else to be in charge, well that and someone else to do the cooking. I’d have my room look like a beautiful flower garden right beside the ocean on a warm summer day and I’d have Orro cooking for me. Just the thought makes me want to cry with relief.
Wishing you and Gordon some peace too. 😊
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong. It was a hug in book form, it was just that lovely.
I want to help William and Rose create a better school for changelings. Except that’s not that different from my real life. 😉 But the Weird has magic and horses.
I would love to be transported into ‘Glimmer of the Other’ or any of its subsequent sequels and shared universes, by Heather G Harris!! Thank you in advance! Roberta Mary
I want to go shopping in Baha char.
Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells: “The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.”
I may already be living inside a book. If I were to select a new universe, I would like to try one with known magic.
Mercedes Lackey – Heralds of Valdemar – I would not want the emotional anguish needed to warrant a companion horse, but I would like to pet one.
Elfhome, if it was at peace. I just love Wen Spencer’s books and the world there seems fascinating. It’s also the kind of place where anyone can take over an abandoned building and just live there, legally. So, housing would not be an issue. It seems like anyone there can do their own thing and own their own business. So getting work I don’t think would be an issue. There’s a strong sense of community. People know their neighbors because they have to. There’s dangerous animals in the woods, so it’s a safety issue. And local connections are how they keep their businesses rolling. There’s magic and the convenience of tech. I’d love to try the local food & music. There’s a hoverbike racetrack. There’s a college. There’s a hospital. There’s a local power plant for electricity. There’s a local defense force. There’s public transit (bus & train). There’s a local TV station with a funny home and garden show, and a local radio station. There’s an ice cream factory! It genuinely sounds like the kind of place that I’d like to live.
I’d love to live in the world of hidden legacy – preferably as an animal mage!
The Kinsman Universe from Silent Blade and Silver Shark
Wow
Which book would I want to be transported into
Way too many that I would want to visit (and, most likely, die in as my survival skills would never be able to cope)
But, today, I think I would opt for Penric and the Shaman, by Bujold.
I would love to visit the world of the five Gods and with that particular book I might have a chance of survival – no wars, plagues, rampaging evil whatevers, etc. and the idea if someone stealing a ghost is fascinating.
I would love to spend time in an Innkeeper’s book. I really need a bedroom designed just for me to relax in. Orro’s cooking would really be a treat. Just having someone else cook would be a treat. I would love to sit in a dining room and watch the ocean of another planet. I honestly need that sort of luxury right now.
As a child I repeatedly devoured Swiss Family Robinson and lived that life in my imagination. As a teen and college aged entity, I roamed Pern on wing endlessly. Now there are so many marvelous authors and worlds, my sleepless imagination has nearly infinite food for dreaming.
It is very difficult to pick only one story but I am going for Magic Burns. It has always been one of my favorite stories ever!
Visited Wilmington last weekend and kept telling my husband about Kate and Curran…Like they’re real people. So that’s my vote – I’d love to be their neighbor!
So many books, so many choices- it is a tough choice between KF Breene’s worlds or yours so I will go with Innkeeper because I would love to be able to visit other worlds by walking through a door.
I think I’d like to go to Narnia. Just not in the 7th book! And I don’t need to be a part of any of the battles or anything. I’d like to wander about, talking to animals and trees.
Fourth Wing. Both the author and main character have Ehler Danlos Syndrome like me!!
Deirdre (the roots) of lord Nagrad(the trunk). “A mere formality”.
I would love a book with her life with him in that rigid society.
Don’t pick me.I live in Europe and it’s only a US giveaway.
My dears Ilona
Transport me please into the Murderbot world. I would fight those corporate overlords with all my might and snark. I would happily enter any of the books, but if I had to choose, Network Effect would be it.
I want to be transported to Daesyn, home planet of House Krahr. Specific place where the clipping of Magnolia Green planted itself. Specific time, one hour after the final scene of Sweep of the Heart.
request: Please write one more novel that reunites Dina, Klaus and Maud with their parents!
Wow, this is tough. But here goes, the book I would like to be transported into is Age of Deception by T A White. I enjoyed reading about the character interactions as the world building continued in this series.
I had thought about the Kate books seriously, but I’m too much a wimp to live there for long. 🙂
I think I have to agree with the comments and say any of the innkeeper books. It’s the only one where you can be in one place but travel to multiple different worlds. Also a magical inn just sounds amazing.
I want to explore the many wonders of the universe, encountering diverse planets, climates, and cultures. Magic would undoubtedly enhance this journey. The Innkeeper series perfectly encapsulates the essence of such an endeavor. If I have to choose a specific book, then it’s Sweep of the Heart.
P.s., Wishing House Andrews good circumstances.
As much as I adore the worldbuilding of Innkeeper I have to confess that I’d rather be transported to Iain M. Banks “Culture” universe: that of Excession if forced to pick just one of his books.
I would love to be a dragon in a G A Aiken book because they kick ass, are snarky and are powerful and flawed. Mordred is my favorite.
As much as I love all my fantasy book worlds, I know I wouldn’t last a minute living in them. So, in what is probably a different choice from most, if I could be transported into any book, I’d choose to enter any book in the Star Trek (non-Kelvin) universe. Take me away to a future where society has figured out most of its problems and we can just boldly go!
Innkeeper. I want to eat orros food and visit the market
I would want to be transported into Sweep With Me. I love the space chickens and Drifen, Orro and the trip to Austin. Just being a regular boring guest at the inn during this time would be amazing!
Take your time, ignore the haters cos adulting is seriously rough sometimes 🤪😊.
I would love to be a chef in the Innkeeper Chronicles. So. Much. Fun!
Lord of the Rings
I don’t want to fight the epic battles. I just want to see the world
I’m not sure about a specific book, but I do know the specific genre. I’d like a world where your efforts are directly proportionate to your advancement. As long as you work hard and put in the effort, you’ll eventually succeed. Completely unrealistic, but there you have it.
Sorry, its been a long week for me.
I would want to be transported to Tortall (the realm of Tamora Pierce’s magical heroines). Her books – following strong female fighters and mages – were my favorite as a girl and I still reread them every couple of years. Alanna, Diane, Kel, Beka – these were my heroes in a childhood where I was encouraged by family that being a girl wasn’t to my detriment despite the general culture around us not reflecting that.
Those books made me love reading and even dabble in writing. That’s 100% the world I want to be dropped into.
Innkeeper! Dina will make me a room, Orro will feed me well, and I can chat with Caldenia about growing tomatoes. And if a stray battle breaks out, I’m pretty sure both Dina and Sean will keep me safe. Sounds pretty perfect!
Living in the Innkeeper world would be fun (and if I weren’t lucky enough to be a part of the cool stuff it’d just be normal and safe). Sci-fi wise Old Man’s War by Scalzi would be interesting, living a 2nd life is an interesting possibility…
Without a doubt, throw me into the Tarot Sequence universe by KD Edwards. I’ve read all the books a million times and I’m reasonably sure I might even survive!
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers!
Damn that would be nice. The problem is that most books I like to read would be awful to actually live in.
mindhealer by mca hogarth
Hidden Legacy hands down for me. BUT if I was choosing outside of IA?
I would love to be transported into Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changling universe. I would adore being part of the Snow Dancer or Dark River packs! Having a second skin as a wolf or big cat sounds so freeing. Which book would I choose? Uuuuuhhhhmmmmm maybe Shards of Hope bc I love the Arrows.
I would go to the Edge, or maybe one of NK Jemison’s 100,000 kingdoms.
C.S. Lewis, Narnia, of course. But not Lion, Witch and Wardrobe time period.
One Fell Sweep -Innkeeper or Soulwood Series
If I could be transported into any book — so hard! I have so many favorites. I keep going back to yours. I also keep going back to JD Robb’s “In Death” series. I’ve read all of them at least once, and many more than once. I love Eve Dallas! So I think I would go to 2061 New York City and meet Eve Dallas. She probably wouldn’t be happy to meet me — a little cranky!
I love your books and read them over and over! But since we all know they’re fabulous here, I thought I would post one of the other series I like to read now and again. It would be from an Biship written in red. The world of the others.
My pick: Omnitopia Dawn by Diane Duane — playing Omnitopia with RealFeel(TM) and maybe having the chance to build my own Microcosm would be the most fun ever!
So great to see so many of my favorite worlds here in this blog post. Thanks for the contest. Best wishes to House Andrews!
I would have to say Sweep of the Heart. All of the Innkeeper books are great and make me happy because I grew up in Austin and they remind me of home 🙂 I love the idea that I could live in that universe and come across a secret inn full of alien creatures lol. SOTH in particular just has such a fun and weird mix of characters and unique situations and it would be so fun to witness the shenanigans lol
I want to live in the Innkeepers Chronicles at Gertrude Hunt. Or better yet, I want an inn of my own.
I’d enter Endless Blue by Wen Spencer.
Something historical maybe Little Women or Jane Eyre have read them so many times. If it’s magical it’s got to be Innkeeper because I want a magical house and to visit innumerable worlds.
Innkeeper universe!
After Tolkien, I’d have to say Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey. I love horses and the thought of being bonded to one (even though it’s not a horse) made me want to be in that world. The trilogy with Talia is something I reread all the time!
Honestly it would be the Innkeeper Universe for me… As long as I was in on the secret of course. It would be awfully sad if I traveled there and was a mere-mortal.
Hidden Legacy because they are my favorite books!
I would want to be transported into the world of “Pride and Prejudice.” Thank you for running this giveaway!
I would probably die very quickly in most of the fantasy worlds I love so I would pick Pride and Prejudice.
Either the Innkeeper or the Uncertain Sactuary books by Jenny Schwartz – theres just something about those magic houses that take care of all the necessities, and never need cleaning!
reading through all the comments makes me want to reread the innkeeper series again! I think definitely the first book of Innkeeper or Hidden Legacy so I can stay for the series! Love the world building and the magic!
I would be entered into the Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs. I relate so much to Anna and love Charles. I discovered you, Ilona Andrews, and Patricia Briggs about the same time from a random author suggestion comment on a Labyrinth comic many years ago and you both have been my favorite authors since.
I would like to live in the Hidden Legacy books. I have read them over and over again.
I would love to wake up in Narnia!
Jane
Definitely the inn keeper universe, although the Hidden Legacy comes close. I like the idea of the vampire home world.
The Edge for sure
Wow, so hard to choose after so many books read through the years! Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down… Hidden Legacy really appeals, to be part of that family, and I love the magic system! I would love to meet Kate and the gang, but I don’t think I would survive that world.
But, like so many of my BDH buddies, I want something calmer for myself right now so I’m going with small town love and found family with shape shifters, Cherise Sinclair Wild Hunt Legacy, but I would settle for no magic, just love, with the Mountain Masters or Sons of the Survivalist. The world is a little scary right now so I’ve been doing a re-read of Miss Sinclair, can you tell?
clean sweep, or any book in the innkeeper world
I would love to transport into Spellcrash by Kelly McCullough; in general I love books that combine magic and tech in logical (aka makes sense) ways; my other choices are into your two series: KD World during the Wilmington years, and Hidden Legacy.
Thx for the opportunity!
Louis
I think any of the Innkeeper novels would be great! I’d love a magical room with many water features & greenery-lots of moss & maybe a weeping willow. I’d like there to be plenty of natural light too. Just the perfect amount where you can feel that cozy warmth that only laying in the sun gives. Dina could get that dialed in perfectly.
Plus the food-Orro’s cooking would be wonderful. Could Dina make it so I could eat whatever but not gain weight?
It’d be meet all the creatures within the safety of the Inn’s walls. I want to meet wise chickens & killer trees.
Discuss?
“All the Weyrs of Pern” by Anne McCaffrey.
Because who wouldn’t want to share a telepathic bond with a DRAGON?! And exist in that universe, on that planet, when they’re in the process of figuring everything out? So exciting!
hope the chaos monkeys will go back to ignoring you again soon!!
that’s easy ‘goodnight moon’. because going into a nice relaxing world getting ready for bed is honestly about all the adventure I would want to actually be living through (vs reading about).
Right now I want someplace magical, but not violent. I’m voting for Oz and a nice calm village in central Munchkinland
I would be wanted to be transported in an Innkeeper book so I can explore the vast galaxy and meet all the different creatures that live in the galaxy. I just want to see how cool that world is and of course meet the main characters.
SRTANGER IN STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein. I would like to learn to grok.
I’d love to meet Orro and taste his delicious cooking, and see the Inn change shapes, so any of the Sweep books.
When I was still in grade school, I got a book about how we would live in space stations and all the wonderful things we could do with variable gravity, hydroponics, unimpeded astronomy, and preparing for travel throughout the solar system. I think the author was Willy Ley, but it has been a long time since I was a third grader. I would like to get into that book and find it was actually true and we do have a future in space exploration.
I would live to be transported the the clean sweep inn series. Of course id want to be in the know. Maybe not an inn keeper but more of a Caldenia ka ret Magren. Id like to sip some Mello Yello and eat Funyuns and watch everything from my balcony.
Innkeeper or Harry Potter, both would be so fun.
Not in the US, so don‘t count me for the Giveaway.
I have only two books / series in which I would like to be. One is (how could it not be…) the Innkeeper series, the other is K.M. Shea‘s Magiford Series .
Tinker by Wen Spencer. The Elfhome universe mixes science and magic in an intriguing way, and magic is not limited to the chosen few.
I’ve always loved the world of the night circus. I hope your next week goes better
Definitely The Princess Bride – it is my go to comfort book and never fails to make me laugh, cry and smile.
Sweep of the Blade is the one book I re-read the most. No matter how many times I read it, I never get typed of the story. Of course, this is true for your other books as well!
I think I’d want to be isekai’d into Blood Heir!
ooo the temptation to say Hidden Legacy is v strong since i JUST finished re-reading 1-3 for a thingie my book circle is doing! However, a newfound heat intolerance is admittedly outweighing the allure of seeing magic-fueled family feuds + the magical reality of actually getting to see the inside of a piney point mcmansion… (i live in the swamp of the NE megalopolis so Houston heat genuinely sounds scarier than one of Vincent’s creatures to me rn >_<)
My existential anxiety levels are a bit higher than usual right now so i keep doublethinking my usual SFF/UF reads whenever i think abt where i would want to go, so i hope webnovels are okay? i'd want to "escape" to a world where i could visit both my countries whenever i want (US + KR), and Housemaker in the Dungeon by 황금송 feels really appealing right now! Would be nice to be in a mirror of our modern world where you could simply clean in a fury–it's me, currently dusting to de-stress–and then a magic snail goes "yay here is some money! and a free apartment too! whee!!" as a reward. (Also likely the only time i could visit my home country…my fear of flying has ratcheted up and it will take a portal-fantasy miracle to get me on a plane for a long time ^^;)
i saw some other BDH members comment manga titles so hope this answer counts! The original novel script is on Kakaopage (던전 안의 살림꾼) and the English translation is on Tapas (The Housekeeper of the Dungeon). It has a graphic adaptation (S2 just started yesterday on Kakaopage hoho) which is translated on Tapas as well! Starring colorful manhwa panels of brooms and brusque warriors much like a certain Innkeeper :3c
I learned about you guys late in my reading career – and I’m appreciating that, since I get to read it now. I am really enjoying the Kate Daniels series, and the Hidden Legacy series.
But right now, I’m caught up in Omens by Kelley Armstrong.
Miss Percy’s guide to the care and feeding of British dragons
There are so many books to choose from! I chose your Innkeeper Series because endless possibilities right? So many worlds to explore and choose, yet still come home to the familiar.
Thanks for sharing your skills! Can’t wait for all the books!
Earth Girl by Janet Edwards. Being able to portal through thousands of worlds… Working as an archaeologist, digging in the ruined cities of Earth… Heck yeah.
I am sorry that Hugh 2 is so taxing. I am excitedly waiting for it, sort of patiently. I have lots of favorite worlds that I want to live in from Lord of the Rings, to Louis L’Amour westerns, to Hidden Legacy, and to JD Robb’s New York. If I absolutely had to pick only one I would go with Anne of Green Gables. ( I think). Thank you for the giveaway.
Honestly, it would probably have to be the Hidden Legacy series, specifically Ruby Fever. I love that the universe has magic but it is still a relatively “normal world.” I love urban fantasy!
The Dragonriders of Pern series because….dragons! Dragons that can speak to you, plus fire lizards. So definitely Anne McCaffery’s world of Pern.
Rules of Redemption – the first book in the Firebird Chronicles by T.A. White.
I love the snippets whenever they come. It’s a delicious delight but I know how crazy life can be and don’t mind waiting because I know sooner or later, I will see another snippet.
Thanks for all the amazing series over the years. I have re-read them many times. I love the characters, the snarky banter, all of the sword fights…but not sure any scene can top Maude and Lady Ilemina! You two are fantastic writers and I can hardly wait for the next book.
If I were to picky ANY book? Sweep With Me. Any of the Innkeeper books, really, but space chickens!!
The world of the five gods, during Penric’s span. Specific book I guess,”Demon Daughter.”
Clean Sweep as I love to have a cook and a house that cleans itself. Having Sean,Dina and the rest of the characters around would make for great company!
Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken because fun dragons!
The hidden legacy series because I grew up in Houston. I think White hot was the one I really sank into first.
Sorry you are stressed, relax and play some video games it always helps. I love all of your books so much I couldn’t pick one.So if I had to go into a book world I would want to be somewhere that was familiar since I’m not sure if I will have powers or not. Because of that I would pick The Discovery of Witches books as they are set in the modern world but have many magical creatures in them. Plus they actually hang out with normal humans so I might have a chance to be a friend. I would love to travel back in time with Diane, hang out with the “witches” maybe date some vampires and offer to babysit the twins to see what kind of trouble they get up to.
I think I would have to say The Outsiders. That book has always resonated with me.
This whole year has just been too fast and too slow at the same time. Hopefully you’ll get some down time to have give your brain a rest
I think I would want to be in the innkeeper series! Being in that world sounds like an amazing experience:)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. Read this for the first time when I was in my teens. I’m now sixty-nine, still reading it on occasion and even after all these years still wanting to be Angharad “Harry” Crewe.
You guys are sincerely my favorite authors, but I don’t think I would survive in any of the worlds you have created. Lol. I would absolutely love to visit Dina’s inn though. It is my favorite comfort read (have reread SO many times) and as long as I don’t leave the inn, I trust Dina to keep me safe 😉
Absolutely love The InnKeeper series. It’s the House that does it for me. Reminds me of the house in the Discovery of Witches only better.
“Baking Bad” by Kim Watt. Baking, Dragons, Mysteries, Laughs,Ladies of a Certain Age “. What’s not to love 😉
I’ve been transported by books, the Vorkosigan adventures by Lois McMaster Bujold, and the Twelve Houses series by Sharon as well as your series, but I don’t think I’d fare well being transported into them. I’ll go with Written in Red by Ann Bishop.
Project Hail Mary
For many years, the world I wanted to belong to was Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan world. Now, The Innkeeper world has swept me away — Innkeepers, Vampires, Werewolves, Merchants (teehee), and Horde, how can you choose.
Wild Country by Anne Bishop. Or just the Other’s universe.
If I had to be transported, I would definitely go to St. Mary’s series. Who doesn’t love time travel? I think the book I would most like to be transported into is A Trail Through Time, because that’s when they visit Pompeii.
Just because I finished it last night and it’s in the front of my weird brain: Apprentice to the Villain. Feeling as though I’m starting to chart my own course in the world but I’d sure like to feel like someone would burn the world down to make me smile the way The Villain would for Evie Sage…
Tamora Pierce, “Alanna”
I would want to be in The Hobbit I think. I’d like a nice round door and a house under the hill full of food stuffs. I’m pretty sure I’d die immediately in the Kate Daniels world haha.
I want to live at an Inn! This isn’t sucking up — it’s my favorite universe. Love the Sweep books! I hope there will be more someday.
I went through my favorite book collection, judging could I survive in this world? The quick answer was mostly no. I’m not physically strong, I suck at solving riddles, and I’m a hobbit by nature (no adventures thank you).
But then I saw it sitting in my childhood favorites, Beauty by Robin McKinley. Go to a castle and have full course meals, no more laundry, dishes, utilities or rent to worry about? But best of all a magical library with every book that has and will be written? Sign me up! And yes there’s the castle owner to deal with, but I can handle (probably) him.
Son of the Morning by Linda Howard
I want to be with Nevada, Catalina and Arabella! in New Texas!
If it was any world i wanted it would be in the world of the Written in Red book by Anne Bishop, Failing that, I’d live in Wilmington next to the fort.
Decisions, decisions, it is so hard to pick one book I would most like to be transported to. Since it’s impossible to pick just one from the House Andrews masterpieces, I will pick a different author, Annette Marie, and the book:
Three Mages and a Margarita.
In Three Mages and a Margarita, the bartender (protagonist) doesn’t have magic powers but finds friendship and value in a world full of people who do have magic. Well written characters, lots of action and some romance too.
I would have to say the Kate Daniels world. Since I re-read them yearly, they are my comfort read and find that world fascinating!
Take care of you! We can be p*tient….
Would Love a Galley! I’m kind of afraid to be transported into a book, other than reading it, I mean. So with great hesitation, I select Frank Tuttle’s Three Mean Streets. I think I could survive as a witch there. But definitely not Mama Hog. No siree, I do not want to be Mama Hog.
The wizard of oz world from the books, so magical.
But…if I was a prime from a nice family maybe the hidden legacy series.
I think I would be transported into the How to Date Your Dragon universe, probably because it’s my current comfort read 😌
Transported into a book? It’d be one of Victoria Goddard’s Greenwing & Dart books, for sure. Love her worlds. Thanks for all you do, Team Andrews.
I think it would have to be Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave. Childhood me was absolutely obsessed with arthurian legends.
I am not sure I would want to be inserted into a lot of my favorite books. I guess I would not mind living in the world of Hidden Legacy as long as I got to be a powerful, rich prime, but that comes with its own issues. No worries about Hugh. I am anxiously awaiting another wonderful book from the team, but I prefer to wait and get the complete story anyway. You should take care of yourselves first and foremost.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
What an incredible, imaginative world to fall into!! I loved that book from the first page. The world building is engaging and has a magnetic pull that draws the reader in; it made me want to dive into the book and never have it end!
I will also reiterate what others have said: take care of yourselves!! Everything else can and will wait – no matter what editors/agents/etc will try to tell you.
So many books to choose from! I’m going to say The Awakening by Nora Roberts. It’s definitely a modern fairytale with a magic happily ever after! I also think Hidden Legacy needs me as an administrative assistant! 😁
The book series that has always transported me is the Redwall series. I have been on many adventures with mice and otters in my imagination!
Murderbot, but on PreservationAux, not in the Corporation Rim. So Fugitive Telemetry or Network Effect.
It turns out that this week I’m too old to go adventuring. My dog ate raisin bread yesterday and it sucked. Right now, I just want to watch episode 162 of Sanctuary Moon and eat Starchy Foods!!! with fellow introverts, or maybe introverts + Ratthi.
It would probably bring me into the first book I imagined myself in, Lois Lowry’s The Giver. I remember being fascinated that the kids tried different jobs and wondering where they would have assigned me.
I’m not sure if that world would be have been better than the second one I was obsessed with – Jane Eyre.
I would love to be transported into any of your books, Nalini Singh’s, Jeaniene Frost’s, or Jasmine Walt’s books. I love all yours and their books!
So hard! And no guarantee that we’d be integrated with the main characters? I’d love to work in the Inn, but I’d rather not be transported into that book’s world as a neighbor, ignorant of all the goings-on next door! Okay, I’ll trust that when you have the power to insert me into a book, I would have an actual role.
Sweep of the Heart.
The Archangel series by Nalini Singh
I love the world of
Silent blade and silver shark – New Delphi, province of Dahlia – eating passion cones and I would love to stay at Dina’s inn, enjoying Orros’s cuisine – also Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera 🥰
Gunmetal Magic—all the way. I love all of your books, and I would probably fit right in at the Gertrude Hunt Bed and Breakfast Inn. The setting for Gunmetal Magic was like stepping into “the land of the not quite right” some 40 years ago. Korea, a place where I suddenly woke up one day at 26 to realize I fit right in. Fit, strong, I could run all day and night, and not flinch. I missed my son, it was a remote assignment, but I loved my life.
Still a young lieutenant, Korea was a place of macho American GIs and the surviving children of the Korean War. By then, most were mothers and some grandmothers, they didn’t know what to make of us American Women. Korea remained a land stuck in time somewhere between the 15th Century and 20th.
I realized living among these wonderful people who had endured so much over centuries of time, we could have been just another conquering army. Instead, after 35 years, we remained as hero’s.
The Olympics would come, the land would change, but for a brief moment, we were the misfit good guys. The Paladin’s, there to protect and help.
The tools we used were magic, and in a culture that would leave a wife behind in a flood to save the family cow, we American Women proved there was another way. Andrea North would be proud.
Wind in the Willows, as Mr Badger’s irascible, rapier-wielding sister, who keeps the peace in the Wild Wood by night, and packs famously indulgent picnic hampers by day. Her best friend is the bookish cousin of Mr. Mole, and she keeps company with a sleek otter of breathtaking aquatic prowess.
I would love to be in Sweep of the Blade. Is it possible to get hired as Helen’s tutor? She is fierce and doesn’t need a Nanny but a tutor would probably be acceptable. Honestly I just want to hug her.
Ooo I’ll go with Beauty by Robin McKinley. A retelling of the beauty and the beast. . .Id just be for the library and the help to do all the household stuff lol
To be honest, I think for me it was Mercedes Lackey’s “Arrows of the Queen” trilogy – especially the first book. It just grabbed me and pulled me in.
Things have been tough lately, so I lived in The Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs for a week.
Awesome book -Iron and Magic – read 5 times!
Shadowrun: Streets of Blood. I can still remember, almost 40 years ago, how entranced I was of a world where magic and high technology seamlessly and entertainingly resided together, but I couldn’t decide if I wanted to be a mage or a cyborg. It never seem to end well for those who tried to be both. Streets of Blood had the added pleasure of intricate conspiracies and laying the groundwork for multiple story lines in other Shadowrun novels. Cool!
I don’t think I can recall any book series that transport me as much as any of your work does. Your research and commitment to realism make your worlds so life like to me! Outside of your work, I also really like Patricia Briggs work. Mercy is such an interesting character and she feels relatable!
It’s been mentioned several times already, but Anne of Green Gables, definitely.
Innkeeper! Specifically sweep in peace or sweep of the blade. I need to meet a vampire engineer and learn the secrets!
If I could be transported into a book, it’s Kate Daniels world EVERY TIME.
The Innkeeper universe. It’s cozy, but has unlimited potential to see all the worlds.
Valdemar as created by Mercedes Lackey. One of my first introductions to fantasy.
My daughters are very into the Jory John books right now. One of their favorites is The Sour Grape. It’s the story of how a sweet grape progressively becomes sour and holds grudge after grudge after grudge. I feel like this sour grape quite often. I’d love to hop into their brightly colored fruity world and learn how to be a sweet grape once more.
If i were in abook it wouldbe in any boodin Dennis E Taylor’s Bobiverseseries
So many… but I would say Innkeepers Chronicles since i am re-reading them. Love ❤️
I’m uncertain about this answer but it’s the best my broken brain can come up with.
Edger seems like an accurate guestimate.
Thanks for the giveaway and take care
I would like the Innkeepers. Traveling to other planets sounds awesome.
Delightfully, I have been transported into several of yours, actually able to visualize the actions fully as they are read to me in audiobook format. The one I’d pick to particularly honor and commend is Sweep in Peace, I can see every moment, every second, every movement in that book, and I have listened to it thru some hellaciously bad times, and it has carried me through them. I love that book for that reason, but even more, for the message of the book. Make peace not war.
I would want to be transported into the CLEAN SWEEP universe as someone with access to the portals. It would be so cool to travel to different world or to go shopping at Baha-Char.
Pern!
I reread the Hidden Legacy series over and over, so if I could join a book it would probably be one of those. Although I would most likely end up one of the innocent bystanders that has to get out of the way when magically heavyweights throws a fit.😜
Take care of yourselves House Andrews!
I would sink into The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I have imagined myself there since i was a child. Imagine my profound disappointment when I finally tasted Turkish delight….
Inn keeper series right now. I want some place cozy at the moment.
The Kate Daniels world, Anne Bishop’s The Others Series, The Jane Yellowrock Series, Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson books, and Seanan McGuire’s October Daye world are all immersive experiences. Luckily, there are more but these are my all-time favorites.
Innkeeper! I’d love watching the guests while having a high likelihood of survival!
Innkeepers. I want Orro’s donuts. The physics-defying-with-portals -to-other worlds- inn is cool but…donuts!
The Innkeeper Chronicles – Sweep of the Heart. I’m re-reading the series now. such an incredibly creative world. Thank you for sharing it with us!
I would love to win a galley but I dislike writing reviews and I think that people who get early releases (especially free) should repay the kindness by reviewing the book to help boost its sales.
So. Not entering. Just commenting to remind people that the courteous thing if you win is to write a review.
Innkeepers; specifically for Orro’s donuts.
Tortall with Tamora Pierce. The wild mage series (Dianne)- obviously I’d want to be a wild mage. 😉 I particularly liked the learning of how to see wild magic and her learning to knit/ heal the animals after getting injured. Just the thought of being able to see and heal that way- so much better than the medicines, surgeries, procedures that we have to deal with in the real world. Of course it’s all cleaner in a fantasy world. 😉😊
I don’t think I would want to do it like Maggie though. 😊 I have some preferences about indoor plumbing. (and not swimming in sewage/ dirty rivers- I don’t remember the exact details at this moment)
I think I would want to be transported into the world of A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. Wrede. It has magicians and mysteries, and is set in the Regency era. What’s not to love??
Michael Chatfield’s Ten Rhealms Book 12 – To be fully healed and be able to work hard would be amazing. I want to live in Alva.
I would love to be in Kate Daniels world and just outside of Kate inner circle. Don’t need to be her bestie bu If she knew who I was and that I was a good person – that would be enough!
I would transfer into the world of Narnia from “The Voyage of the Dawntreader.” A place I’ve fantasized about since childhood!
If I could be transported into ANY book… right now I would like to be transported into Anne of Green Gables.
I’m torn between Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series and the Inkeeper series. Inkeeper would probably win,because I could have all kinds of adventures, see all kinds of fascinating stuff, even travel to awesome new places, and still have my safe, comfortable home to come back to.
The In Death series by JD Robb. I love her future world!
Witchworld
Strugarsky Brothers “Monday starts on Saturday”
1. author Jenny Schwartz magic series. bound magic. loyal magic etc
2.any world with Arabella or Kate Daniel’s living in it
While I own all of your books and all of Wen Spencer’s and reread them more than any others, if I had to chose a book to be transported to, I would select the eye of the world from Robert Jorden’s the wheel of time series. I used to reread the entire series every year when a new book came out until his demise. While Brandon Sanderson completed the series, it just wasn’t the same afterwards and I would like to live out how the original author would have finished it.
Transported into any book- easy! Clean sweep. Galactic travel, different words and species not to mention the inn itself and the amazing possibilities and adventures by just staying home! I never knew I wanted to be an innkeeper until I read that series. It is an incredible journey!
JD Rob’s In Death series. Glory in Death if a specific title is required. Future, but close enough to what I know that I think I could cope
Just like Bastian, I’ve always dreamed of being part of ‘The Neverending Story’.
But I finally see I get to be in one now anyway, just hanging out with my friends there’s so much going on with so many people around us that there’s lot of “But that’s another story and shall be told another time”.
Hidden Legacy books for sure – I’d pick any of them, I’m part of House Baylor and have a super prime power too!
Like: I learn everything and anything on the first time I’m taught, see it done or read the instruction manual. From Hawking’s🧠 to MacGyver 🧰🛠️.
Or any really cool power, really.
What book would I want to live in. It would have to be Kate’s world. Where I could have my horses and the horror of what happens when magic hits. I wouldn’t need magic itself, just the horses for me when magic is up. Hehe. Hope life softens up for you.
Dragonflight was my pathway to Pern. I dreamed of a dragon egg that would one day choose me, of soaring on those wings into a shared adventure with another rider who valued everything about me. The missing cover and frayed corners are evidence of more than fifty years of repeated visits to Anne McCaffrey’s world.
That…is a tough question to answer. there are sooooo many great books! I think I would have to choose the Mercy Thompson world. Though I am absolutely obsessed with the Kate Daniels world too.
Jaine Diamond’s Dirty series about rock stars (First book – “Dirty Like Me”). This may sound sleazy and far from proper behavior, but I want one night with the lead guitarist – Jesse Mayes
I might need to travel to Discworld. Sitting back and having a couple of beers with Tiffany, Granny Weatherwax and maybe a few Nac Mac Feegles would be pretty amazing.
Of course having dinner with Kate and Curran would be fabulous too…
I would still like to stay in the Shire! so the Hobbit for me 🙂
I’d probably want to be in any world written by R. Cooper, everything they write is cozy and comforting
Inn keepers and The Others series by AnnBishop.
Silver Shark is my go-to book for when I’m feeling discouraged and overwhelmed by life. It’s a firm reminder to practice self-awareness and gratitude, and what better way to embrace that than to fall into the universe that inspires it?
Any of us who’ve escaped poverty (and the toxic culture that permeates it) can relate to that moment when Claire first steps onto her balcony. That moment when the vastness of the world and all of it’s possibilities are spread before her and laid bare for the first time.
Hope is the loveliest magic.
The Goblin Emperor.
If I could be transported into any book it would be All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. Why? Dragons first off! Would love to impress a dragon. Next reason would be the series is at such an exciting place in this book. There are all kinds of new discoveries and opportunities. It’s also a place I feel I could survive and thrive in.
Thanks for this opportunity!
Innkeeper Chronicles or Hidden Legacy series. I loved reading both of those series and I can’t wait to read the Kate Daniels series next.
Wishing you a better week! We can wait until Hugh and Elara are ready.
I would love to visit Dina’s inn and explore the galaxy.
Probably the world of the Iron Seas, specifically The Kraken King. I ADORE Ariq and Zenobia.
When I was much younger, there were many book worlds that I wanted to be part of. Now, not so much, because I’d never be able to deal with all the danger and fighting that is such a large part of my preferred reads. If I could have magic, I’d like to be in Harry Potter’s post-Voldemort world. If not, I’d happily jump into Sweep of the Heart and be a permanent guest at Gertrude Hunt.
Alibi by Sharon Shinn. I just finished the book and how cool to live in a world where transporting is so easy!
I’d want to enter the Redwall books. Primarily, I’d like to try the food. But I’d also like to finally figure out all the size proportions of buildings to inhabitants.
oooooo Bayou Moon for me, family, rural, strong community.
I would be happy in any of the Sweep books. Just helping Orro (altnough i know i would be lucjy to be allowed to observe) in the kitchen and seeing myself reflected in the room that is created for me in Gertrude Hunt.
I would love to be transported into your Fated Blades story! The maneuvering and intrigue, and the world building are fantastic. Any of your stories would be amazing really!
To be honest, I’ll probably be an NPC in whatever book I end up landing in, but if I could be an NPC anywhere, I’d choose Clean Sweep. Hopefully I’ll be an NPC in Baha-char.
I like Hidden Legacy best would hate to come into that world as a “dud.” I would pick Innkeeper if I could taste Oreo’s cooking. That would be amazing!
i wouldn’t mind being transported to the edge … a little bit of magic … a little bit of this world
Dear House Andrews, please take good care of yourselves. We are very appreciative of all the yummy Hughdays you have gifted to us!
Books I got lost in? Sweep of the blade for sure and Ok, any of the Harry Potter books make it on that list, and also some of the Georgette Heyer books.
Thank you!
Innkeeper series.. if I could stay in an Inn with food and Baha-char privs because YARN and unlimited space for it! Muahahhaa..
So many stories, worlds, and characters. I have to say, though, that I truly, deeply love the Kate Daniels world, that slow slide into the Apocalypse. How during desperate times, villains become more villainous, and heroes rise up through circumstance and choice, fighting all the harder because it actually means something. There is so much to be and do in Kate’s world, if you just give yourself that chance. Some way to make a difference. Some of the characters I love most in that world started as a side character, who because Kate was there found their courage to fight harder, and ultimately became more than they were. Even though in the end everything is slowly sliding into… well, who knows, perhaps oblivion, or perhaps another chance at balance. Yeah. Kate and company.
I would totally want to be transported into the Hidden Legacy book series cos I MUST meet Grandma Frieda. I’d beg her to be my Grandma!
Would love to be transported to the Innkeeper world so I could taste Orro’s cooking.
And please take care of yourselves. We can wait until your ready to give us whatever stories you’re up to giving us.
Kate Daniels! But any of the House Andrews books are a winner for me
My absolute favorite would be The Inkeeper Series. The adventures would never end and the loving couple relationship, just enviable.
There are so many more and I’m showing my age but these are the books I’ve already tried to live in.
Pern by Anne McCaffrey (pick a book)
Oath & Honors series by Mercedes Lackey
The Very Hungry Caterpillar because I think my day would be made with those beautiful snacks and a long nap! <3
I’m going to date myself. I would love to live in Valdemar in “Arrows of the Queen”.
I would probably choose harry potter! after voldy is defeated please. I would love to go to hogwarts. I’m still waiting on my letter.
I would want to transport into Dinotopia. it was one of my favorite books as a kid and that would be a lovely world to live in. It is extremely tempting for me to say Kate Daniels world, but I am sure that I would be dead in a week. It would be an amazing week, though.
Innkeeper universe would be the coziest, if I was able to get in as a guest! Or get to be an innkeeper!
Enjoy your weekend and new desk. Take care!
Valley of Silence, Circle Trilogy 3 by Nora Roberts.
Some books stay with you, no matter how long ago you’ve read them. They are unforgettable because you cry with the characters, laugh with them and become them for just a little while. Sometimes, you need that to get away from your own reality. Sometimes, that’s how you make it through a day.
This book was all of that for me… Epic battle, love like I dream it, hard choices and happy ending.
No matter how many times I’ve read it, I will always be happy reading it again.
Speaks the Nightbird by Rick McCammon
Just now, with a glimmer of spring in the air, it would be The Secret Garden for my pop-in-a-book.
Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny, an oldie but a goodie!
Thank you for the chance to win! Daughter of the Blood (Black Jewels #1)
The entire series sucked me in, wrung me dry, and then dropped me back in reality. I love the world building and that everything is shades of grey(some very dark!).
I want to transported to the time of Blood Heir and go see New Shinaar with Julia/Aurora and see how they have changed and evolved the world of Erras childhood into a modern place where they collaborate with the government and make things better for the people. I’d like to see how Erra has changed herself to fit the new world and what beautiful bits of history she still brought with her like the water gardens.
It would have to be The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. This world and these characters have stuck with me ever since I first read it in middle school. My inner child still has me double checking any large armoire I come across for a doorway 😁
I have always loved the Hidden Legacy world! Who wouldn’t love to hang out with Grandma Frida and the gang!
Secret Giveaway: I’d LOVE to be transported to any book in The Innkeeper Chronicles!
Innkeeper! They are great comfort reads. If I could, I would go back all the way to the beginning with Clean Sweep and work my way through the whole series. But if I absolutely HAD to pick just one book… it would be Sweep of the Blade. (Now I am off to go start that one again…)
Oh oh, so glad the books are still booking along, no matter how fast. If I had zero control over my stats/persona, I would love to live in Valdemar, around the time of “Take a Thief” or perhaps the Duke Valdemar et all escaping the Imperial lands.
Now, if I can have some magic, I would dive into the Innkeeper world. A close second would be Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series.
I would love to work at Baylor Investigations and get to take in all that is the wonder and chaos of the web of characters, who are seem so real to me.
I would love to visit the Inn in Clean Sweep.
So many book, so many adventures, so many worlds…. where I would undoubtedly die horribly in the first hour.
So “Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods” by John J. Rowlands
Because I would have about a 30% chance of survival. For at least a week. And lovely scenery to look at as I die from lack of modern medicine.
I was utterly enamored with the world of th Blue Sword and Hero and the Crown when I first read them 20+ years ago and they’re still comfort reads now 💜
Life is hard right now do I’d jump into Dealing with Dragons the first of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede and join the main character as a librarian and cook for a dragon
I love your books, but right now fantasy fluff is appealing
Shadow of the Moon, by MM Kaye
Last time I moved, I discovered I had 6 copies of it scattered around the house. So I can sink back into it, where ever I may be.
Though, honestly, Burn for Me is a close second.
The Secret County trilogy by Pamela Dean.
I’ve thought about this so much, which is why I’m so very excited to read Maggie. I have decided that even though fantasy is my first and forever love, I would die very quickly 😅. Therefore I would love to jump into the Virgin River series by Robin Carr. That series is so good and romantizes small towns but still manages to make it feel so real. I want to sit down at Jack’s bar for a plate of Preacher’s daily special.
The Chronicles of Narnia!
Innkeeper or Lord of the Rings. Classics both and I’d LOVE to see Innkeeper brought to the big screen!!
This blog recommended the book “Magic and the Shinigami Detective” by Honor Reconteur, a while ago. It caught me by the throat and wouldn’t let me go. Ten books so far and I still crave more. Thank you so much for recommending this book.
I would say the Inn Keeper Chronicles. Mainly because through the Baha-char I could visit any book or universe, so I wouldn’t be limited to one.
The book I’d like to get transported into is Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness. It’s book 5 in the Diana Bishop series where she goes to Ravenswood and meets her extended family. There are so many wonderful women and lots of magic.
I’m sorry that life has gotten so heavy for you lately. I think all of us (especially you) would love to escape into the world of a book, even if only for a short time.
Since I’m older and have no magic, I’d love to escape into Sweep of the Heart. I’d love to sit and watch everything without being a part of the action.
Talking to Caldinea, eating Oreo’s food, enjoying the orchard, and reading books would all be amazing. The best would be a trip or two to another (peaceful) world.
I hope that things get better for all of us. Hugh will arrive on his timeline despite the BDH’s and your hopes, so rest, relax, and try to get through your daily life. At least Maggie will meet her adoring new fans soon!
I would love to pop into the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I love all the characters and would enjoy hanging out with Simi eating some BBQ.
I honestly can’t pick one world: Kate Daniels would be #1.
ACOTAR #2
Hidden Legacies #3
(I’d love to have the magical power to teleport or talk to animals)
Sweep of the Heart, or any of the innkeeper books. I want to be a guest.
to be honest, maybe Sweep of the Heart, to watch the selection process.
Ribbon Dance by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Is it science fiction? Yes. But also magic and romance. Excellent world building. Don’t start the series here. Start with Conflict of Honors.
My choice books to enter would either be Innkeeper or The Wheel of Time. Both are comfort reads for me and I’d love to even just visit for a day or two.
Did anyone else consider Beatrix Potter? She gives each creature depth and personality with real day to day lives and pressing concerns. I think it would be lovely to visit the country mouse for a spell. My other favorite would be a to visit Dina’s inn. I wonder what kind of room would she create for me… and if Oro would make savory or sweet treats to go with my tea when I got back from shopping on BaHaChar…
I second, third, fourth, etc my wishes for House Andrews wellness and happiness.
If I could pick a book to be transferred into, it would be Shelly Laurenston’s shifter world. The characters are so damned funny.
Starless sea. So rich in visuals and the idea of a magic library is lovely.
Take me to the Wandering Inn. I’d like to hang out and watch the high jinx that Erin gets into. I’ll keep a healing potion handy in case anything tries to kill me. And give me some of that purple ale, thank you very much.
We can absolutely understand taking your time to make sure you’re well rested and in a good mental space. You can’t pour from an empty cup!
If I could be an innkeeper, I would absolutely pick the world of the Innkeeper Chronicles. I want my own Inn!
Kate Daniels introduced me to you. I first read it when the entire book was on your blog. I read the first couple of pages but stopped reading it when the vampire started crawling across her kitchen ceiling. I tried re reading it many times (cannot recall how many). One day I decided to read the dang book and was hooked by the time Kate knelt and said “here, kitty, kitty, kitty.” I told my son about Kate Daniels and to this day he teases me about about vampires and “here kitty, kitty, kitty.”
I have to say though I have not re-read the series in a while and may have to go back again.
My son recently introduced me to “The invisible life of Addie LaRue”. Totally different writing however what a captivating story of a girl who make a Faustian deal to be forgotten and live forever. The catch, people she meets do not remember her after their first encounter. Man…. What a sad life. She finally meets someone who does remember her however, of course there is a catch to that. Great book.
I think I’d want to live in the john Ringo’s There Will be Dragons, but I’d be dying around the beginning of the first book.
I would like to land in the Innkeeper Universe.
I’d like to go on adventures with Kate, but I’m really wimpy. Since my character would get killed off really quickly, my book would be a novella – or maybe even just a blurb.
If I were to be transported into a book /universe, it would be the Wormhole Mana series by Tom Larcombe – because when you are in the Mana field areas, you’re body resets to it’s optimum order, and the magic system/lrp system seems very straight forward and if you put your effort in, you level up.
Sorry to hear about the dog stress, but glad your orc dog is in recovery.
If I could be transported into the world of any book, I would choose The Kinsmen Universe, specifically the planet of Rada, the Dalia district. Not entirely sure why, but those stories and that place seems like a world I would love to explore & live in, as a regular human, not as a Kinsman.
This is really hard! I love the fantasy/magic worlds I read about. But I don’t know if I would be able to survive in most of them. I am NOT the strong heroine type like Kate. I would be down for the count almost immediately. And the major romances? While I would be rocking it with my guy, I’d probably have a heart attack. So, I guess if I was to go into a land from a book, I think it would have to be something like “The Teacher from the Black Lagoon” universe by Mike Thaler. Kids think the adults are all monsters–until they actually meet them and find out that they are kind and generous. Either that or go live with the Dumb Bunnies from Dav Pilkey’s books. The things that happen there are just too funny! Can you tell that I used to be a kids’ librarian? Those are my perfect worlds!
I’m so sorry for the hard week you’ve had. As so many others of us have commented, thank you for the lovely stories and please take care of yourselves. <3
If I could live in one of your worlds, it would be at the Inn with Diana helping to tend the garden but since I don't think she really needs any help, it would be at Baile as one of the gardeners. I'd be hopeless as one of the protection team but I can weed and make pretty much anything grow! 🙂
Congrats on getting picked up by Tor! The book would have to be “Nine Princes in Amber” by Roger Zelazny. Admittedly, it was written more than 50 years ago, so the dialog is less than progressive, but it was the first book that made me dream without any boarders. Thanks for your worlds that keep making me dream!
Okay, thought long and hard about which book to portal into – my conclusion is, Katie Morag (children’s books, but hey, a beautiful Scottish isle is the place for me!)
Thank you for all your stories.
Definitely the Hidden Legacy world.
Hope next week is better for you both!
My book that transported me was Steven King’s “The Stand”. Only book I’ve ever read that gave me nightmares. I still shudder at thoughts of the “trashcan man”.
I think that I would enjoy Michelle Sagara’s Cast novels of Elantra
It’s a toss up between the Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik and the Innkeeper Chronicles! I love them both!
I would love to explore the Edge! Going with Rose to the Weird would be epic
I would be transported into K.F Breene series Demon Days Vampire nights series. I think being around that crew would be interesting. it’s a series I currently reading .
2025 comments, must definitely be giveaway time
good luck to all USA’s who entered (lucky ducks)
With my luck, I’d get sucked into a Dr Suez book where everything is Totally Crazy and spend all my time trying to make alligators into blow up floaties and make snakes have smiley faces (these are 2 things that I made happen in different dreams/nightmares I had so they weren’t as scary and so the alligators couldn’t eat my mum)
55 years old and still have crazy assed nightmares 🙁
The Libriomancer series.(Jim Hines)
Their magic is to be able to reach into a book and pull out an object. Excalibur, the size altering cakes from Alice in wonderland, a Metal Rose….
The Innkeeper series. If I HAD to pick one, it’d probably be Sweep of the Heart. I have no idea how many times I’ve reread it. Thanks for the chance fro an early glimpse at Maggie!
I would jump into the Innkeeper books, just so I could have dinner at the Inn.
my book was the lord of rings trilogy in high school. I cried during the fellowship of the ring movie because it was so overwhelming to see it on screen. I love the Kate Daniel’s series. I find the mixture of culture and religion fascinating. I can’t thank you enough for allowing me into her world.
Fated Blades
Linzi Day’s Midlife Recorder series. I also REALLY loved your Innkeeper series, and could totally hang out in the house.
As long as I get main character energy I’d say the world of Hidden legacy for the magic or Immortals after dark world by Kresley Cole because who doesn’t want to be a Valkyrie.
I feel like I would probably die if I tried to live in most of your books so I’m going to go with ‘Talking with Dragons’ by Patricia C Wrede instead.
Hard to pick just one, but I’ve always been fascinated by Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. As a kid I wanted to magically appear on Pern and interact with dragons.
This sounds crazy, but the book that popped into my mind was Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting. I read the stories when I was a child and loved them. All the animals talk and the people go on lovely adventures.
I’m not sure I’d survive in one of your books, me a 50-year-old teacher lady, or any of the books I read for that matter. So I think maybe I need to be plopped down somewhere in the middle of Star Trek Federation space/time- Picard era.
Ooh, hard question! Maybe I’d like to visit an inn from the innkeeper series, or travel to Tinsori Light from the Liaden Universe.
Ordinary Magic. It would be interesting to live in a town with vacationing gods.
I would like to be the heroine in your new book. Just the title makes me excited and if it’s true she cannot die that would be most excellent
Lords of the Rings.
That was the very first book that I really sank into and found myself rereading every few months because as awful as real life was at the time, it always had the ability to let me feel transported.
The Hero and The Crown.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune because the thought of living in a world where you get to live alongside so many other magical beings is wonderful!
I could have chosen Kate for the same reason, but let’s be honest I’m a 40-something non-athletic woman with glasses who trips wand need stitches while walking down a perfectly good sidewalk. I would die immediately in her world! LOL!
I would like to be the heroine in your new series as I am all in favor of never dying
First Truth by Dawn Cook(Kim Harrison, because I want to be a Raku.
I’d love to be in the Innkeeper universe. Looking forward to Maggie when it comes out and the return to Hugh.
So many choices! So many worlds where I end up dead! I think I’m going with
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Specifically, I want to hang out with Sam Vimes.
It’s Hidden Legacy for me! Indoor plumbing + magic are a winning combo *fingers crossed* …also I think it would be so funny to see how the HL world looks in different states and cultures.
I love visiting other worlds in books but would most want to live in our own world. So I would choose a contemporary like Ali Hazelwood’s *Love Theoretically.* I know how to function in academia.
Anne Bishop’s The Others world without a doubt. I would be an elemental. I can already imagine the fun I would have as water riding around on whirlpool. 🐎 Watching over the Lakeside others and keeping the “bad humans ” in line.
I’m so sorry about the week you two are having! I hope the upcoming weeks are much better for everyone in House Andrews! Please don’t stress too much and take time for yourselves.
As for the giveaway, like many others, I’d choose your Innkeeper series, mostly for Orro’s cooking and magical rooms tailored perfectly for guests. I’m getting ready to travel soon and it’s been so stressful. Knowing the best inn and innkeepers in the universe are at the end of the journey would be really comforting.
I could also lose myself in a nice cozy fantasy such as Sarah Beth Durst’s Spellshop or Casualfarmer’s Beware of Chicken (does that count as cozy fantasy?). As much as I would love to meet characters from more dangerous books, especially the Baylors and Kate and Curran, I wouldn’t survive very long in deadly circumstances.
Penny Reid – Knitting in the City series
I wanted to say Patricia Briggs but I would actually be too stressed for all that
I love you guys and would LOVE to get an ARC. Thank you so much for the opportunity.
Transport me to any Star Trek Next Generation book that ends well. I always felt that I was born at least 200 years too soon.
If I were to be transported into a book…I would probably chose the psy-changeling novels bc I love the communities in those books. Also…cats. Hehe. Or! I would choose Inn Keeper! Dream of running an intergalactic inn-unlocked!
Hi all, I hope you have recovered. The warmer weather may help so pups can lay in sun and bake old bones.
The Chronicles of Narnia was the first book I ever read that really transported me and made me want to live in that world and go back via the next book in the series (the beginning of becoming one of the Book Devouring Horde, I believe). Some books I get into that way, where I am deeply in the world and some are more about very much identifying with a character and being in that person’s mindset. Thank you! (I don’t know if you need to know but I live in Georgetown TX USA)
This is too easy-Innkeeper! Gertrude Hunt Bed-and-Breakfast for the biggest WIN! Sweep of the heart for the bonus of the all the things
I think I’d like to be transported to Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty. It’s still familiar enough to now but with sci-fi options accessible to everyone.
This is attempt number 2. Yesterday’s attempt may have posted but my internet crashed while trying to post so I don’t think so.
I promise I was much more eloquent the first try.
I love both Kate Daniels and Innkeeper, but I think I would love to explore the world of the Advent Mage (Honor Raconteur), so I would like to be transported into Jaunten.
Thanks!
There’s so many. Hopefully I would get powers or something upon arrival, otherwise my stay at any of them might be cut short.
Tower of Somnus series by Cale Plamann
Hidden Legacy series
Cradle Series by Will Wight
Murderbot’s world! Of course I want to travel to other planets and fight off evil corporations.
I would want to be in Victoria Goddard’s Nine Worlds in Zunidh, under Kip’s government.
I loved Agent of Change in the Liadan Universe. The origin story of Val Con and Miri! It would be fascinating to be part of that universe
While I love all the Innkeeper series, “Sweep of the Blade” is one that I listen to so often that I can put it on with a 30 minute timer and go to sleep with Maud and Helen. I would love to be in that book and their world.
I truly hope you are back on track with all the things you need to be on track for.
Thank you!
Pern. Dragonflight was the first SF book I read, at 17. The SF shelves were next door to Mystery at the public library, so when I finished that section I moved on and picked up a book at random. Lucky for me!
I’d like to go to the Lord of the Rings. I would definitely not survive but I’d want to be part of the Rohirrim.
Best of luck with the Hugh 2 pondering and I hope you’re week next week is better. I’m currently rereading catalina’s arch I’m the HL books and just caught Tuna’s guest appearance in meed of rescuing 🤣 I think I’m remembering correctly when I think back the HL gave you’re both some trouble at the time, and they are great books. in House Andrews we do trust 😊 so we all have faith that H2 and all other writing projects will be brilliant
I read to escape. If I was transported to a book, I could only escape to real life?
I think I would like to go into Nora Roberts’ Tallamh world. I’ve read her Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy hundreds of times. She’s an excellent writer, and I think these just might be her best books ever.
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder. This was a childhood favorite that I reread too many times to count. I love the simplicity of this book.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I couldn’t tear myself away from this when I was reading it. I was almost late back from my lunch hour at work more than once!
Ilona & Gordon, please don’t get me wrong – I absolutely LOVE all of your stories. I can’t get enough off them. I’m a proud, card-carrying member of The Horde.
But, if being honest with myself, if I was to be transported into a book, I would prefer John Ringo’s To Sail a Darkling Sea, in his Black Tide Rising series. Just want to go shoot zombies. Would still love a copy of your book to read (between the zombie killings). 😉
I would love to find myself in the Ghost Mountain series by Audrey Faye!
Thank you for all you do, House Andrews!
I’m currently re-reading Cheryl Wilson’s Lord of the Fading Lands . Like you, her world building transports me to another dimension, so today I choose The Fading Lands.
Any Discworld novel, really, but I’d love the chance to shoot the breeze with Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg.
There are so many books I’ve been transported into! My first introduction to fantasy though was Tamora Pierce’s Immortals series when I was in middle school, and I was definitely transported. I’m always transported into House Andrews books as well.
Thank you for this give away and I’ll echo the other comments in wishing you the best and taking care of yourself.
I have been transported to many wonderful places through reading, but I would really love to go into the Innkeeper world!
100% the Innkeeper series. I’d love to be a long term guest at Gertrude Hunt. Getting to eat Orro’s food, interact with all the interesting guests as well as Dina and Sean. Ooooh and getting to visit Baha Char!
I would like to be in Harry Potter’s world as long as I wasn’t a muggle. 🙂
Lots of good to read books. But I would not survive… I did really want to go to Gertrude Hunt to have a custom room and eat the food!
Hidden Legacy — It is close enough to our current world that I won’t be lost and I would love to have magic.
I would also say Sweep of the Heart.
I love the Innkeeper world and would love to stay at an Inn.
Have a good day
If I could be in a book I’d choose either Kate Daniels or Hidden Legacy. The world building is so amazing I’d want to see it in person
I love and adore the Innkeeper Chronicles. They are my comfort re-read (and the Graphic Audio is my comfort listen).
All my best to House Andrews and to the BDH.
My tweens were defined by my fierce desire live in Tortall. I was consumed by Song of the Lioness.
I would be in the Innkeeper world. I would feel safe in an environment curated to my needs and wants, but could still see exciting activities and alien beings, and I’d get to eat Orro’s food!
I would like to be in Alf Wight’s “ all creatures great and small”. Seems more of a safer world. Sweeter and more civil. The world at the at time wasn’t really but in the book, it feels like it. Of course I love your books best but their worlds are dangerous and scary. Musicals from the 50’s also work. Our country (in the musicals) seemed good then.
The Innkeeper Chronicles were my gateway books to your writing so they have a special place in my heart! What I would give to be a fly on a wall in Dina’s Inn and be able to see all of the goings-on in a magical intergalactic waystation for alien travelers!
I feel you, and feel you and feel you. Was out two days sick this week. Wasn’t it Tuesday when I returned? Nope. Friday.
As for universes, I REALLY want to be Roman’s friend. I want to have tea with Baba Yaga and hear the whole family do their version of holidays. I need my own Nechist. I’m thinking of adopting one. Do you think they have adoption papers the way Cabbage Patch Dolls did?
Innkeeper. I want to visit Baha Char so bad.
oh this is challenging:
1. The Firebird Chronicles by Ta White
2. Kate Daniels, of course
3. Death before Dragons by Lindsay Buroker (because I live in the Seattle area and love the local references)
Seaman Mcguire’s Incryptid series i for escapism. And Innkeeper
The book to be transported into Steve Miller and Sharon Lee’s Space Opera, Necessitys Child. . I think melant’i is a cool idea
While I’m eagerly looking forward to Hugh 2 life does take precedent, especially when caring for old pets or for family. We will wait. It will be worth it.
I reread Hidden Legacy or Kate Daniels over and over again, so any of those books.
I love the “In Death” series by JD Robb. Eve Dallas and Rourke are my favorite fictional couple!
Burn for Me
Love Nevada & Rogan💕🌷
I like the idea of every day magic. For me, Hidden Legacy, but without any interest to the higher level magic users would be great.
Secret giveaway:Hidden Legacy is where I would like to live.
Kate Daniels world for sure! I would love to work for Biohazard or something similar. Post-shift Atlanta would be incredible to experience (and hopefully survive). 😆😁
I don’t know why but. skinny legs and all keeps popping in my brain. I think it must be the idea of cross country road tripping with a dented can, a magic stick and a spoon.
If an HA book, the Innkeeper Series.
Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera, cleverness over brute strength for the win along with some great world building. if I’m not re-reading Kate Daniel’s, Innkeeper or Hidden Legacy, I’m re-reading this series.
The Lizzie Grace series by Keri Arthur – witches, werewolves and other shifters, with demons and monsters they have to fight. Plus, it’s in Australia, which I would love to visit. If you need a specific book, Sorrow’s Song, although it’s number 9 in the 12 book series. The other books are good, but it’s my favorite. Hope you can both rest up without any more crises for a while. Thank you for all you do.
I would absolute LOVE to experience the Hidden Legacy world. Such cool magic to see and learn about! Possible glimpses of Mad Rogan, Alessandro and the Baylors!
Other positives include a lack of (current) world wars, no wild orcs to eat you if you venture out of the city, and having great things like modern plumbing, air conditioning and cars for transportation.
Oh it would have to be the innkeeper world (and I’d have to live in Gertrude Hunt to be specific ) – as much as I love Kate Daniels I don’t think I’d survive long lol.
oooh I would love to visit Nalini Sigh’s Guild Hunter world. Beautiful, deadly angels and the vampires they create….
Take care of yourselves! I would love to be a part of the Hidden Legacy world. I love the family interactions and dynamics.
I would choose the Innkeeper series & visit Gertrude Hunt! 🌳🏰🧹
I would love to sit at the table of Gertrude Hunt and enjoy an amazing meal prepared by Orro!
I think the blog ate my comment earlier. So I’m trying again, cause I’d love that galley copy.
I would love to live in Jane Austen’s world, as long as I was a wealthy spinster aunt. Failing that, I would be delighted to make my own way out of Baha Char in the Innkeeper world!
I really got immersed in your Hidden Legacy series. The sisters and their world just sucked me in. I adore Grandma Frida, she is the greatest.
There are so many awesome worlds, but I would only go if I could pick the role I would play and be guaranteed interaction with loved characters. Probably the Innkeeper world, or JD Robb’s In Death future, or maybe Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changling. Exciting people and events but less likelihood of death.
a wrinkle in time would be one of the first books I really dropped into when I was in 3rd grade (over 50 years ago). to be fair if I drop into an authors book, I usually read everything by that author. so I have read all stories written by house andrews.
I would want to be transported into Harry Potter’s world so that I could explain to him that he should have embraced his gifts and become the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor rather than chasing childhood dream jobs that aren’t really all that.
I want to be in Innkeeper. Already on Earth, just with a twist!
If you asked me 30 years ago, I probably would have said ‘Pern’ … love Anne McCaffrey’s dragonrider series. Now, however, I would like to live in a world where I could stay at Gertrude Hunt, have a room curated for me, and visit the bazaar.
Oo! Innkeeper or Mercy Thompson series world be fun for the banter!
Secret giveaway: I’d have to go with Innkeeper, Sweep in Peace. I think I could survive because of Dina. I’d love the amazing food too. I love any Ilona Andrews world hands down over others, but I think any book in the Kate Daniels world would kill me and quickly, unfortunately.
i would love to be transported in to the innkeeper books. i love the fun and play and adventure as well as the functioning electricity and lack of an apocalypse (at least so far 🙂 )
Any well written book does that for me. Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels especially. Also Lisa Shearin’s Raine Benares series. And obviously any of your teams books, but especially the Edge series and the Hidden Legacy series.
I think I would want to be transported into Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling world. For a specific book, it would probably be Mine to Posses. If I could be a changeling in the world, all the better!
If I could transport into any book, I would start with Innkeeper Chronicles. I would love to have lunch made by Otto, visit Bahachar, and tour the Inn.
I love fantasy to read, but I would not want to go into any of my favorite books. So if I had to choose, I would choose Constitute Services by John Scalzi.
It is a comfort read with a ton of aliens on earth, and no real danger. I could live in the district and just be around interesting beings without being in danger of dying.
For me, it would be Patricia Brigg’s world for Mercy Thompson. Just like today, but with shapeshifters, vampires, the fae, *and* a goblin king. As Renny put it:
“I am going to ignore—just for a minute—how much my geek side is loving that apparently there is a goblin king in the world. And that he is—again apparently—here in the Tri-Cities. Even knowing that David Bowie is gone, I am giddy about this.”
I think if you asked me ten years ago, I would definitely have picked Kate’s world and been excited for adventures and danger and saving people. But now I just want somewhere safe and cozy like Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop. I would like to bring my Kate books to read there, though, and share with everyone in my book club!
Ooooo, Sweep of the Blade.
Of course, I would totally die. So could I become a Vampire too?
Also— just take care of you. The world can be dark and sometimes it’s hard to just do the things. I play BioWare games and re-read your books and write silly fanfic when it’s all too much for me. I hope you’ve got the things that make the darkness shrink for you.
I think opening it up to the whole universe of books is too much for my brain to process. I’m going with Innkeeper universe, so much to see!
(First time poster) Thank you so much for your books, I have been rereading them on a cycle for like 2 years now and they are my warm blanket on a cold night.
Innkeeper! With a visit to the Inn of course!
Pretty sure I need to knit while her Highness drinks Mello Yello with Funyuns. Or grow dahlias.
There are others I’m sure I’d love to visit, but I’m not equipped to survive in though….
I think I would probably be safest in the Innkeeper world, so I’ll go with Clean Sweep, where I can have Funyuns and Mello Yello with Caldenia, and play with Beast. And later, have fun watching vampires get drunk on soda!
I would have to go with an anthology that includes a House Andrews contribution.
I love the Hidden Legacy and Innkeeper worlds, but I would probably end up in Ann Bishop’s Lake Silence in the world of the Other’s.
Silver Shark. I love the kinsmen series and want to experience New Delphi and the Provinces. I also feel like an average person has a small chance of surviving this world lol!!
Hunting Ground Patricia Briggs
I would enter Lois McMaster Bujold’s Chalion world–either Cazaril’s era or Penric’s.
When I read the Hunger Games Trilogy I remember walking around in the real world and being shocked and glad that I didn’t live in the book world. I submerged so much into that writing that it felt jarring to be in the actual world.
Ella Enchanted
I still love that book all these years later. It’s one of my favorites
My knee jerk reaction was The Princess Bride. However, after thinking about it, I think I would be happy in the Innkeeper Chronicles books – as long as Michael Glenn, Jon Vertulo, KenYatta Rogers, and Danny Gavigan were all there reading to me while I watched Oro cook!
If I were transported to the world of a book it would completely be post shift Atlanta and to be transported to the world of Kate Daniels. I have read or listened to those books so many times. It would not be an easy world to live in but that is where I would be most comfortable. I am so glad you guys have continued the series with the Wilmington Years and the Julie book(s). Thank you for making such an amazing world.
I love your books, but when I’m not reading them I love British mysteries. I will go with The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths. I find the world of Ruth Galloway, archaeologist, professor, mom and the mysteries she solves to be so absorbing.
Of course any of the fine books from House Andrew’s would be a dream to fall into. But, thinking back on my life of reading, maybe a classic novel by Jane Austen. To be a gentleman’s daughter have time to learn to play the pianoforte, draw, sing and needlepoint would be interesting. But limited independence and voice would probably get me into trouble.
I would love to be swept into Sweep of the Blade! Innkeeper is my go to comfort read ❤️
To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey.
Magic Claims is my choice. I would be the wizard that Luther assigns to help Kate & Curran sort the various magical items that was left heaped around the palace.
I love all of your books,but I think I would choose the Chronicles of Narnia. I always wanted to go through the wardrobe.
The world of Narnia (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe).
I would love to wake up in Becky Chambers Psalm for the Wild Built. I love the idea that one day we might wake up and decide to be our better selves!
I would want to be in the Inn Keeper series because I like the idea of a small unknown inn housing a tree that allows you to travel to different worlds. That you get to meet all kinds and try to make them feel at home. I honestly love that and that’s what drew me to the series.
For me it would probably be Bujold’s Vorkosigan worlds – though it’s a hard choice. The Narnia books are high on the list too.
I live Hugh and Elara, they are the uber Kate and Curran. Also in this ridiculous time, you bring me hope. ❤️
Hope the orc dog is feeling better. Teeth surgery is no fun! Hope next week is better.
If I was to be transported into any book….
The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning
I love the Kate Daniels world and the Innkeeper worlds. I recently read a trilogy by Elizabeth Bonesteel (First is The Cold Between) and it’s stuck with me. It’s more hard sci-fi but really good – a space opera with a female lead. It would be cool to live in a universe where space travel was possible.
Hidden legacy
Michelle West’s Essalieyan novels (The Broken Crown, etc.). Got me into high fantasy. How I feel about the series seems to be like how Maggie feels about her series.
I am sorry you had a tough week and hoping next week is better for you!
I love all of your books but I don’t think I could survive in Kate Daniels world. I would choose the Innkeeper series as a place I would love to visit and possibly stay there.
If I couldn’t be transported to the Innkeeper world, then I would like to find myself in Shawn Inmon’s Middle Falls Time Travel Series. I have some times in my life I would like to redo. 😉
The Mage Wars series by Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey always sucks me in.
The Pern series, because Dragons! was the first to pop into my mind. But it is hard to choose between magic and space.
I would have to say J.D.Robb aka Nora Roberts… the In Death books because who wouldn’t want to live in a world with a unit that fixed your food and technology where you don’t have to workout or watch your food intake.
Plus hey flying cars…that world I could be a lowly detective and decided clues.
I started reading those books many many years ago…when I was a teenager.
I’d love the Kate Daniels world, but my second choice would be the scholomance world by Naomi Novak.
like a fun little mystery game, so exciting! Ilona and Andrews always know how to build the hype, can’t wait to see what’s next!
I would want to explore the capital in Panem from the Hunger Games. Maybe even some of the districts.
Raising steam by terry pratchett. It’s one of the world that seem like it would be ok to be a normal person.
The book is Moonheart by Charles DeLint.
The first book I remember being totally sucked into, like in the sense of picking it up and then, looking up hours later and I couldn’t see the pages anymore and the sun had somehow gone down. .. that was The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley – I was pretty young, and it was summertime. . . and afterwards I definitely knew I wanted to save the world, ride a fabulous horse, fall in love. . .if only I had a magic sword. . .
I’d choose being an ordinary person on Rada from Silver Shark. I’d stay away from all the elite shenanigans and just enjoy having a pretty planet and advanced technology.
I enjoy peace.
There are so many fantasy worlds I love but not many I might want to get pulled into . So I will have to go with Innkeeper because I feel I could see wondrous amazing things but still come back and snuggle on a sofa with coffee, Beast and some Netflix.
Innkeeper Chronicles for me!
Thanks for the opportunity. I would choose Clean Sweep. I don’t think I would survive in most of the other books I read. lol
If you were transported into a book, which book would that be?
I definitely have Hidden Legacy about memorized…. and Innkeeper, that I could have an edge for survival in those.
In non-House Andrew series it would probably be Chronicles of Elantra by Michelle Sagara as I do a re-read of that series about every time a new book comes out.
Please take care of yourselves! Books penned by Ilona Andrews always transport me, but my vote would be for the first book that sparked my book-reading frenzy, which was Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold.
*hugs*
I would definitely be a casualty in any of the worlds y’all write, so I think I would “stay” in a contemporary romance world like Abby Jiminez’s Part of Your World. Playing it safe, with my comfy socks, books, and electricity. 🤗
If I had to be Isakaied into a fantasy book I’d probably pick This Used to be About Dungeons. Semi utopian, options for magic that are relatively low risk and it’s entirely possible to have something like air conditioning if you’re diligent. All the other fun books are tough places to be without money or government identification.
Realistically I’d probably chose a modern non-fiction books. I’m a big fan of modern conveniences and have an awesome cat I wouldn’t want to leave behind.
A world to read about is different than to live in! So I guess I’d choose Iain Banks Culture novels, and hope I could live in the enlightened future flying around on sentient spaceships. Or maybe Cordelia Naismith’s Beta Colony. I’d follow her to Sergyar too… Sorry to choose like 3!
The book I would choose seems to always be the book I am reading lol
Right now I am devouring for the second time Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind. How I would love to go to the University!
I’d kind of like to try being a school teacher living in the Edge. Life isn’t easy there, but the sense of community is strong. Having George and Jack in my classroom would be frustrating, challenging, and very fun. (No, I’m not a teacher in real life. That’s another fantasy!)
I would choose the Innkeeper world because of all the beautiful inns, Orro’s food, and the different alien worlds and markets like Baha-char. I love the world of Kate Daniels, but I probably die quickly if I were transported into Kate’s world lol
I’d love to visit the world of Harry Potter. My inner child will always feel most at home at Hogwarts. <3
Whenever I think about being transported into a book (and it happens more often than you’d think), it’s usually a cross-over universe of two or more books. The fun part is trying to marry two different worlds and their magic systems together and imagine how certain characters would interact with each other, and well, me. The easiest cross-overs always include Harry Potter since the world-building is fun but already spotty, so it’s relatively easy to get away with the inconsistencies. My favorite book to cross it over with would be the Kate Daniels series – like what would happen to Harry Potter characters and their descendants post-shift? Would the Ministry of Magic take over England and rule openly? What if Hermione became an ambassador in the US? What would become of Bill, who already had some after-effects of a werewolf bite in the HP world? Would his children have higher immunity against Lyc-V? The Triwizard Tournament would be on a totally different level of awesomeness.
Other than that, Pride and Prejudice. It would be so much fun to wake up as Georgiana Darcy and see the downfall of her proud and proper older brother.
I loved all of the books. I have read them several times. It is hard to choose one of them all. I enjoyed the book “Magic Claims (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years Book 2)”. It feels like I am in the forest and sometimes is out to get me.
Thank you for all your wonderful books. I’m really looking forward to reading Maggie. And thank you for the maps. As a very visual person, I often pour over them to orient myself in a world.
The book world I most want to visit is Bujold’s World of the Five Gods. If I have to pick one book in that world it would be Curse of Chalion, tho the Penric novellas come in closer second. I revisit it most frequently because of its themes of compassion and the way that Cazaril chooses non-violent conflict whenever possible.
I would love to live in Hobbiton, so the end of the LOTR cycle when life has returned to being lazy and peaceful.
Ender’s Game began my world of escapism through reading. Even though I like to dwell more in Fantasy worlds, my love of SciFi is strong. There are too many Fantasy realms in my head to pick just one.
If I had some serious plot armor I would love to visit the Hidden Legacy universe or a Kinda Fairytale series by Cassandra Gannon!
If I could be transported into any book, it would have to be Magic Bites. That is the book that started my obsession with the adventures of Kate, Curran and all the gang. Just trying to imagine being part of the series breaks my brain.
Kate Daniels is my comfort read. Bad day? Kate. Good day? Kate. Sad? Kate. Since I also would not survive in that world, maybe something Charley Davidson by Darynda Jones. I could probably be Cookie.
If I were transported into a book, it would be Innkeeper. Having a Bed and Breakfast has always been sort of a dream for me; and if it was an Inn like Gertrude Hunt, I would love that!!
I’d like to try life in the Kate Daniel’s universe, but up the eastern seaboard in my mother’s home town.
Presumably farming and fishing again dominate the economy of rural Long Island, and I’d bet the main east-west line of the Long Island Rail Road follows a leyline. I’ll try to buy back an old family home and raise shellfish. Baby krakens might be a challenge but that’s what antique butcher’s knives are for.
Midlife in Gretna Green by Linzi Day.
And my second choice would be The Innkeeper Chronicles.
O.k. These two choices tend to change places between first and second place depending on when I’m rereading the two series.
Thank you for being one of my favorite authors!
I would love to be in Worth It by C.M. Owens. It makes me laugh so hard every time I read it.
Any of the innkeeper series. Great food, being a quest and protected from any of the other scary guests.
Picking one book world to live in, is so much pressure!! I would go with the innkeeper chronicles! It would be awesome to stay at an inn and maybe I could become an apprentice innkeeper.
It has to be Narnia for me–but circa The Magician’s Nephew, when the world was young.
Innkeeper or Psy-Changeling
Secret Giveaway: Masques (Sianim Series) by Patricia Briggs. It is one of the series that kicked off my love of fantasy reading as a teenager so it holds a very special place in my heart. With both magic, espionage and a love story that is not the main focus, it is just want I love in my books. And of course Patricia Briggs books led me to finding so many more lovely authors from the anthology books. I think it was also how I first found Ilona Andrews books all those years ago, by if you like this, then you will like Magic Bites. 🥰
Kate Daniels or any Psy-Changling books by Nalini Singh
So many worlds, so little time! I want to be in all of them, all the time, all at once!! (to play on a movie title) I think I would like to be in Call of Crows world by Shelly Laurenston. Not sure if I’d do well as one of Skuld’s ladies but I have a lot of anger so I think I could give it a good shot. I also have a soft spot for Norse mythology and a shit-talking squirrel 🙂
I have been knee-deep in a Kate Daniels re-read so my answer for being transported would be Kate Daniels’ Atlanta!
If I could be transported into a book, I would pick the hidden legacy novels. I would pick the Burn for me novel since that was the first book that introduced the Baylor clan
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When I was younger I wanted to go to Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar world. The companions (intelligent horses) and magic are my literal dreams. I don’t know if its still where I’d go… Probably there or maybe your Innkeeper Chronicles world. That would be so cool, who doesn’t want to stay at a magical inn?
If I could be transported any book? I love visiting many different worlds through books, but would I survive entry? Hmm.
My safe choice would be to visit Getrude Hunt and read all the books, meet all the things, explore the universe.
My likely to die quickly choice would be the Raksura Series by Martha Wells. Floating ships, mountain trees, and so many different peoples! Hopefully I could avoid the Fell and other predatory species.
Long ago, I dreamed of living in other worlds like Xanth, Valdemar, Pern, and Middle Earth. Now that I am older and wiser (ha!), I would like to stay here and have a door to a place like Baha-char. That would give access to worlds. All the worlds. All the places. I’d no longer have to choose just one.
Percy Jackson series (specifically book 1 – the lightening thief) or any of the Star Trek books
Is there a book out there where quilting is a superpower? That’s the one I would want to be transported into. I wouldn’t survive long in any book where I would need fangs, claws, or alot of martial training!
If I were to be transported into a book, probably Sweep in Peace. I want to see the hall that Dina decorated. Although, part of me still wishes I could meet Puffles as well.
Take care of yourselves and don’t worry if you miss a day of the week. I do that every time there is a Monday holiday. Throws me off the rest of the week.
Any book? Probably Redwall verse. relatively peaceful, no hugely powerful foes, lots of good food.
Codex Alera might be nice, too.
If I could be in any book world, it would be Wen Spencer’s Tinker world. Spaceships, elves, orcs and Pittsburg – what’s not to love? Followed closely by Dina’s Innkeeper world.
I’m sorry Hugh is giving you problems. It’s in his nature though!
I would love to live in Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic universe (though the Hidden Legacy is a close second). I’ve loved all of Tamora Pierce’s books since I was 8 and have always wanted to live in the Circle of Magic universe. I am sure, just like the Kate Daniels universe, I would not make it in her Tortall universe.
I have fallen deep into all of your books, but especially the InnKeeper books.
But always I fell into Anne McCaffery’s Pern books – especially Draongsinger and Dragonsong. I love Menolly’s story.
And even before that, I loved Jim Kjelgaard’s dog books – Irish Red, Outlaw Red.
And even more Where The Red Fern Grows.
And even before that, my father would read Narnia and Tolkein to me as a little girl – where I first disappeared into stories and fantasy.
I would enter Uhura’s Song by Janet Kagan. It is a Star Trek novel, which deals with a Federation-wide plague, a trek though dangerous wilderness, and fascinating characters. I love the characters’ interactions and the culture Kagan develops.
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley ignited my love of all things fantasy. I would go there.
Ooohh, yes please!
You know, I’ve been thinking about this and most of my favorite books are set in some kind of drama that I’d rather not have to live in.
So I think I’m going with sweep in peace.
I really REALLY reeeaaallly want to stay at Dina’s Inn, eat Orro’s cooking, see Beast in Beast-mode, soak up Caldenia’s morally questionable wisdom, and watch the comings and goings of the universe in style and comfort.
If I could be transported into a book, I think I would like it to be one of Tamora Pierce’s Tortall books. I would love to live in her world of noble knights, just rulers, and, of course, magic!
I would choose either the Hidden Legacy world (because brains can keep you alive more than brawn!) or the Bewitched and Bewildered series by Alanea Alder (because I want to eat Ryuu’s cooking and meet Meryn).
When I was a child it was the world of Pern, but adult me wants modern conveniences like A/C, fast food and easily obtainable books. 🙂
As lovely as yours are, it would have to be Trickster Queen by Tamora Pierce – it’s THE book of my teenage years, and nothing can beat that kind of nostalgia
Robin McKinley’s Chalice
There are so many books I’ve imagined myself a part of, ever since being a kid, how to choose just one? The first books that I wanted to be a part of were by Mercedes Lackey- the Heralds of Valdemar. I wanted to be a Herald.
Sooo hard. If I had to pick just one book, I’d go for Burn For Me.
A Memory called Empire by Arkady Martine
I’d want to be in a world where the supernatural aspect, whatever it is, is out to the humans. I’d want to be part of the supernatural community. I’m thinking either the Sookie Stackhouse world (book, not the TV show) or the Mercy Thompson world.
After scrolling through my read history, it is clear I would love to be apart of either the Innkeeper world, or the Hidden Legacy world. 🙂
The Dragonriders of Pern , by Anne McCaffrey. A world where it seemed everyone had a chance to be a dragonrider, and I really wanted to be a Dragonrider!
Narrowing it down to one book is impossible, but I would love to enter the world of Tortall, created by Tamora Pierce. Visit the capital and Pirate’s Swoop and watch all the knights train.
Also, you just focus on you guys and on puppy. Us in the BDH aren’t going anywhere.
I’d love to enter the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. If I had to pick a particular book, it would probably be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, after the battle with he who must not be named. Although I love the worlds of Hidden Legacy & Kate Daniels, I fear I would not last long in them, lol.
Innkeeper so that I eat Orro’s delicious creations!
Depends on if I was transported and had magic ;p, but its a toss up between Anne of Green Gables & Harry Potter.
The Wolf and The Dove by Kathleen Woodwiss. It was the first ‘adult’ romance my Mom let me read. I’ve gone on a lot of great book adventures since then and discovered so many other fabulous authors, but the first will always hold a special place in my heart. Thanks for asking the question and reminding me of an old favorite.
It’s gotta be the Innkeeper Chronicles! Hidden Legacy is tempting because POWERS ARE COOL! But you can’t top psychotic murder trees.
Hard choice, but I’d like to be part of the Innkeeper world, maybe someone who grew up in an inn, then moved on to other worlds.
For me, it would be a tie between Hidden Legacy and Harry Potter. I want magic, darn it! And a world where the good guys win. 🙂
I love reading your books, but I don’t think I’d want to live in most of your worlds! Maybe Innkeeper? But top choice for living would be Camilla Evergreen’s That’s (Para)Normal world.
I live Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series and as am the same age as the characters, I think I could blend in there.
I think if I wanted to survive I would be transported into the Inn Keeper Series books. And I think it would be awesomely fun to visit new worlds!
I am so excited to read Maggie! Reading the first chapters have kept me in a state of anticipation!
And I would love to visit the Gertrude Hunt Inn! What a magical place!
Sweep of the Heart
But only if I get to sit with Caldonia.
Since my wished for literary haven varies day to day, I can only speak for toda.
Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books.
Could really use a supernatural white horse today.
“Burn for Me” (or any of the Hidden Legacy books). All of the modern conveniences plus magic!
Fear of horrible death wants to keep me from it, but I would choose Kate Daniels. I love the characters, the world is vivid to me, and I like to hope that I would find a place in it… preferably one not in a dungeon or enslaved or sacrificed. For specifics… maybe I’ll do lawn care for Roman and make friends with all his critters.
I’m going for my all time fav. I’ve loved this world since I was a very young teen when the year younger boy seated next to me started talking books with me and loaned me his copy of Book 1 in the series. there are somewhere around 30 books total in the series, grouped around a bunch of different peoples/countries.
The series is called, “Witch World” written by the great Andre Norton. That is where I would love to live. specifically in the city of Es, capitol of the country Escourt, land of the titular Witches.
I would pick Innkeeper Chronicles. I would love to explore the universe but I’m kinda a homebody so I feel like being an Innkeeper would be the perfect position. Plus, delicious cooking, customizable rooms and a found family. Whats not to love?
So many worlds to choose from! my top 3 would be Innkeeper, J. D. Robb, and Psy-changling with Nalini Singh.
Making a comment on something totally different. I noted that usually there are between 200 and 500 comments for prior blogs.
HOWEVER, for this secret giveaway there are over 2000 comments.
NICE!!!! I always knew you guys were so loved. Come on people keep going. This is awesome and it put a BIGGG SMILE on my face.
Magic Claims! I’d love to learn from all those ancient artifacts, people, and animals.
Lord of the Rings – I want to chill with Bilbo in Rivendell.
Sweep of the blade
Oh my goodness, there are so many! I’m currently reading the first Edge novel, but if I fit in I’d like to go to the intergalactic bazaar in the Innkeeper world!
Or maybe solve a mystery with Harry Dresden & Kate Daniels! Can I combine worlds for this? 🙂
The book I was transported into was “Sweep of the Blade”–my favorite, especially the ripper cushions!!
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison wrote a book called Blackmantle.
It’s one in her series the Keltiad – this one can be read as a stand alone.
The female lead is strong, there is magic, there are swords, there is very little spice but it’s implied hehehe and a good love-story; there are green rolling landscapes and a series of “keltic” worlds.
The female mc has beef with the lady antagonist and her friends for REASONS. MC’s bestie gf is a baddie and she’s married to an awesome dude.
They track down one of the people the MC has beef with (again for super valid reasons) and “dance on their skulls” after they put them through a wine press (no graphic details – just head winepress dance). I am here for it!
So… it is easy to pick a world which you would love if you were amazing. Being a Prime in the Hidden Legacy world, a power in Kate’s world, etc, those are easy.
But you are more likely to be a regular person, and where would be the most fun?
Joel Shepherd, and Australia write, has a sci-fi series called the Cassandra Kresnov series. Cassandra is a special as you can get, being the most highly developed android every created, but the co-star of these novels is the setting, the world of Callay, the city of Tanusha.
Tanusha is a magical place, a crazy melange of Indian/Arab/European mix, tilted toward Indian, but massively diverse. Crossed with a huge entrepreneurial, capitalistic flavor, incredible dynamism around tech, but with a huge cultural push to enjoy yourself.
It seems like a fascinating place to live, regardless of your rung on the power/importance ladder.
Self Care is hard to practice in the midst of things that keep happening. Usually I am frantic and chaotic before I remember that “hey, this is a time to give grace to myself, to others.” I love inn keeper series
Clean Sweep Series – I like it because everything is straight forward and the characters are all lovable. I love happy endings
Take care of yourselves! We will savor the delicious anticipation.
I’m actually re-reading the Rachel Morgan books by Kim Harrison, and I dreamed about being transported into one of those books the other night. But I prefer to wait for the e-book to come out rather than take a galley.
I would want to go into the Innkeeper series. I would love to be in a world that has different planets populated by all kinds of different life.
I would love to give the world of Ender’s Game a try. I think the war games box sounds fascinating to play in.
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Any one of the Jayne Castle Paranormal Heroine/Romance books. The heroine’s kick butt, and the older books have the hero on the front, rowr(if you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge 😘) the newer reprints have the heroines on them. Love the dynamics and the pre curtain references, and the hot interchanges…LOL
As a pre-teen, I recall actively trying to transport myself to the world of Anne McCaffrey’s dragons. It might have involved a circle and some incantations.
Alas, I must have had the wrong spell because I stayed put.
I guess the good thing about staying here is that I got to be part of the worlds built by House Andrews!
I’m currently re-reading Kelley Armstrong’s Otherworld series, so I’d pick Otherworld Nights.
I hang out with Kate and Nevada every few months. I might just stay there now that Hidden Legacy is in Graphic Audio too!
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Series. The characters feel like friends. At the end of each book it felt like a vacation had ended and I couldn’t wait until the next book came out. At the end of the series, it was instantly, Okay! Time to start over with book one! I just couldn’t say goodbye to characters that I had spent almost 20 years with😁.
I guess my book would be The Hobbit. Like Adira, I seem to be a Hobbit by nature.
The Kate Daniels Wilmington Years after Kate & Curran are already established and have Conlan 🙂
Oh so many options!!!
Probably would choose the world of Narnia. Old school I know.
Tamora Pierce Protector of the Small, and I’d join the Queen’s riders. I love how grounded this series is. It’s a time of magic and change and possibilities, but the heroes don’t feel like “chosen one” characters – they chose to work hard to make a difference. It’s a story that I feel like I could exist and be meaningful in.
I would want to be transported into the world of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
The Red Terrace from Planet Radi–Silver Shark (Meli & Celino), Silver Shark (Claire & Venturo) & a bit from Fated Blades (Ramona & Matias)’s stories.
These 7 Terraces, especially the Red Terrace’s description of mile long curves cut into a cliff and ‘honeycombed’ with tunnels filled with shops and eateries (AND THE VIEW!!) sound like a dream…I have never been to anywhere like this, (Buffalo NY girl & Jacksonville FL woman), yet I can picture AND FEEL it so clearly–the sky, the vista, the colorful people and aromas from the restaurants…a dream!
I would be transported to Valdemar as a Herald of course!
I would be transported into Forthright’s Amaranthine saga world — in particular, Governed by Whimsy ✨
The Hidden Legacy universe! Would love to be in a world where most people some sort of talent.
Hidden Legacies series – they are my favorite reread. I love the audiobooks and can’t wait for the GA versions!
Dragonriders of Pern. So I can ride a dragon.
If forced to choose only one I’d go with Sweep of the Heart. The characters are wonderful and the possibilities are endless. Plus…cross-over to another series and….Orro!
Can I go now???
All of your books are transportative; Innkeeper, Hidden Legacy, Kate Daniels… but The Goblin Emperor popped into my head.
Code Yellow in Gretna Green by Linzi Day
If I were transported into a book, one of your books, it would be the Innkeeper series. Probably Sweep of the Heart. It is a very close call with Hidden Legacy series and the Kate Daniel’s series. Difficult decision.
Kate Daniels world ALL the way. Magic waves spuring tree growth? Count me in. Of course, I have no interest in being mundane, short, round me in this glorious green world. No, not a merc or shifter nor witch either. Make me a dragon! Flight and fire breathing! Rawr! No plans for world dominance, just a nice mountain to call home overlooking green cloaked fields and towns that are happy to BBQ regularly. sigh the sweet life.
I would definitely love to be transported into the Inn Keeper books. Any in the series would be great. I would love to see to be able to stay at an Inn and meet wonderful new travelers from the stars!
Take care of yourselves!! And kisses & cuddles & snausages to Sookie & her sibs. Blood is always scary…& why is it always at night???? Just for the extra AAAAHHS I guess
If I was going into a world, I’d still be into Pern because I want to bond with & ride a dragon! (We sort of have one that’s a lovely mare who moves as close as a horse could…& I swear I’ve seen smoke when she has to pass by certain of the geldings ;-).) Until/if Puffles, I’m for Pern because there’s no way I’d make it through dragon rider school in Fourth Wing
I would like to live like a lot of people in the innkeeper world, with its multitude of worlds right outside the door,as long as I can be an innkeeper. If not, I would like to be in Kate’s world.
I think I might like to live as a Borrower, I have always lived those books since I was very young 😀
I would love to live in the Protector of the Small world by Tamora Pierce!
Please take care of yourselves. We Will wait, always for you!
Innkeeper, going into space hasn’t appealed to me until now, but traveling with Dina, Sean or Arland, yes! Or Psi-Changeling, for or all the green technologies.
So so many… Kate Daniels, The Edge books, I wanna be Helens sidekick too…hmmm, Anne Bishop’s Dark Jewels, Laurel K Hamilton’s Merry Gentry, Shelly Laurenston’s worlds do seem like a hoot. I would probably not survive in any of these worlds, But it sure would be fun while it lasted.
well, my favorite books are the Kate Daniels series. if I got sucked into a book world, that would be my choice. at least in there I would stand a chance. Most other authors’ books you’re either powerful or fodder. in your books, even an old harpie in denial stands a chance.
not to mention, I don’t care for people much but LOVE animals. so I guess the shifters would be people I could like.
I absolutely adore all your books. However, they are very stressful. I would not want to be transported into any of them… except maybe an Inn.
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers.
No need for a galley. I’m just sharing for the fun of it.
Avowed. Em.
All record said it’s a very mid game. Hope you can enjoy it!
One of my favorite books is The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold. It is the first (timeline wise) of her Chalion series in the World of the 5 Gods. My daughter introduced me to your writing many years ago and I own all of your books and like them very much. Can hardly wait for Maggie-wish you would go further with Puffles. I appreciate the snippets you supply.
Thanks again
I would pick The Hobbit (not Lord of the Rings) because in that book, I’d have a much better chance of getting a relatively peaceful second breakfast. As Tolkien says, “It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.”
I love Kate Daniel’s, but if I truly wanted to live in a book. All creatures Great and Small, James Herriot.
I would love to visit Gertrude Hunt.
To be honest, I do not want an exciting world in my actual life, so if I was transported into a book world, I would like it be Frog and Toad are Friends, please and thank you. ❤️
If I can transport into a book, I choose Sartorias-deles world from Sherwood Smith. This is as close to utopia as it can with human in it.
Everyone can survive. Even lazy bums like me can just wander the street vanishing horse shit or something.
Population is not overcrowd because it’s tightly controlled which delete a whole lot of problems.
Most diseases are eradicated via magic ways back. No more measles!
Rape is not a thing. (Because the first mages in the world are women and they use their power to wipe out bad men ages ago. And they only accept women into their rank for the longest time…..)
Only problem I can have is nobody eat meat. It’s a vegetarian world.
I’m not sure, but I think that it’s the world of Kevin Hearne’s Druidverse. I’m so in love with those characters (I listened so I don’t know who to spell
If I had magical abilities or powers, the Innkeeper world. I would love to stay at an inn and travel between worlds. Although, I don’t understand the rates. 2nd mortgage??
I love Magic Bites with Kate Daniels!
I love the Clean Sweep.
Black Beauty
I love horses. I sure wanted one as a child but it just never happened.
I’ve been loving the bits you’ve posted of Hugh 2. Even if it’s slow going, I’m positive it’ll be amazing.
Hidden Legacy for me please, but secretly discovered to be the long lost fourth sister
I think I’d like to be in the Innkeeper world. So many different species and worlds to explore!
I definitely have to choose the Innkeeper world, especially if I could be a lifetime guest at Gertrude Hunt. I’m happiest at home being cozy, and being able to have my perfect home, with other worlds literally a door away if I feel like a quick outing, is the version of travel I wish I could have. Top reason though would have to be that I would love to have Orro’s cooking – those food descriptions are drool-worthy.
Burn for me would be the book. I love Rogan and Nevada. I’ve reread this book and series so many many times. 😊
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The first book that transported me to another world and made me an avid reader was The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. I remember my mom picking it for me to read only because it was on the Newbery stand in the library. I wasn’t excited to read it at all because I didn’t think the cover was interesting. Then magic happened when for the first time I was asking if I could read just one more chapter before bed or asking if I could read in my room instead of watching TV. After the world of Damar, I discovered the world of Pern. Without The Blue Sword, I don’t think I would have picked up a book with a woman with a sword on the cover to give Kate Daniels in Magic Bites a try. 🙂
I’ve actually thought about this way too often and I would pick the world of Kate Daniels. There is a high likelihood of death but I’m confident in myself in being able to pick up the skills to survive. I love studying mythology, philosophy and natural medicines and I would finally have a practical excuse to learn how to wield medical weaponry.
would i be transported as i am or do i get a magical upgrade?
my survival rating for your book right now is about a -100. i would definitely need a little power boost!
Lord of the rings. I had the second book for two towers sitting on my shelf for six months. I had run out of other books to read, and I started it. Not realizing it was the second volume in the series. I finished the book. Read the third book. Went back to the Fellowship of the Ring and then read the two others again. Then I finally got around to the hobbit. Still like Lord of the rings better. But it still holds up after all these years.
Hidden Talents – I think this world setting be quite fascinating to experience!
Chalion Series by Lois McMaster Bujold.
My first foray into fantasy was Tamara pierce. Her Wild Magic series spoke to the animal lover in me and I was hooked ever since.
so sad I’m in New Zealand and I miss out. it’s okay I will buy the twwnkm.once I can . I think I’d like to visit it’s world be the first there.. get a head start 😜
There are so many to choose from, which is what made me take so long to reply. Also, I get caught up in wondering what my circumstances would be! I choose the Innkeeper series as an Inkeeper.
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey. Love the idea of telepathic dragons and the fire lizards it’s also at a time when some of the worst aspects of feudali are beginning to end.
The first time I remember being totally immersed in a story and living along with the characters is when I was around 10 years old, living on Pern with the fire lizards in Ann McCaffrey’s Dragonsong. These days I own a coffee bar on Baha-char, hoping to help vampires meet new kinds of people, lol!
I would like to go to the world of Patricia Briggs—maybe get my car worked on be Mercy. Hang out at Uncle Mike’s bar.
If I could enter the world of any book, I would choose the Pokemon manga. It’s safe enough for 10 year old kids to wander around without supervision & the world is beautiful. It may seem juvenile, but boy am I tired of realistic adult world.
Secret Giveaway Entry – Written in Red by Anne Bishop (The Others Series). I love the world she created. I frequently go back to her books.
While I’d in theory love to be transported into any magical world, I don’t think I’d last very long, so I feel like I’d like to transported into something more whimsical, like the Penderwicks books or The Spellshop.
I’m going to say a day with wilbur robinson by William Joyce which was my favorite picture book as a kid.
I’m dyslexic and it took me a while to become a bookaholic. Ann McCaffrey’s White Dragon is still all time favorite.
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. It’s such a lovely and uplifting read. I want to run a tea stand that soothes people.
Oh my gosh, this is hard. There are so many books I love, but definitely never want to set foot in (Looking at you, Hunger Games and True Blood. I know I’d be “background local who goes down fast”). But for this, I think I would like to wake up in The Night Circus. Performing in a magical circus, traveling somewhere new all the time, being part of something greater than me.
I would love to visit Dina’s inn, chat with Caldenia, and taste some of Orro’s delicious donuts!
The Hidden Legacy series – I lived in Houston for a while so it is familiar yet exciting.
Lots of great books already mentioned! I’d like the Innkeeper world because there’s amazing things accessible, but you can go home to our familiar world when you want. That significantly improves my survival chances. That said, some of Asimov’s writing like Prelude to Foundation and the Caves of Steel would be interesting to see to.
Innkeeper series: sweep of the heart
Hope you all are still doing well, extra hugs to Sookie!. I’m going back to my teenage years to say that I still go back & read Anne McCaffrey’s dragonriders series, so, not just one book, lol. I only have a handful of author’s that I read over & over again, you all being one of them.
Take care,
Connie
Without a doubt LOTR. Breakfast. Second breakfast…Elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, supper!!
While Innkeeper is my favorite, I would like to be in Hidden Legacy’s world as that intrigues me the most.
Anne Bishop’s black jewel trilogy.
Take me to Rada please! I’d love to grow up in the provinces and then move to New Delphi and live close enough to walk to the terraces. Pink Wine! Passion Cones! Kinsmen!
*ahem*
Not that I’ve given it much thought or anything. 😂
I would have to pick LOTR I would love to be a shieldmaiden of Rohirrim.
It would be Burn For Me, the Legacy series for me. Running a close second for me right now would be Kate Daniels or Fourth Wing.
If I could be transported to any book it would be Sweep the Blade. I’ve read it at least a dozen times.
Dressage Chronicles – I’d like to learn to ride better and I’d probably have a short life in your books, as much as I enjoy them!
Elizabeth Hunter’s Elemental Mysteries would be my choice by a smidge. Even though she’s not the main char of that series, meeting Tenzin would be amazing.
I want to go live with Dina and Orro. Especially if it will also allow me to jump to Baha Char, visit Cookie, take a trip to Daesyn, hang out with Maude and Helen, have tea with Caldenia. You know, cozy stuff 😹
K.F. Breene – her Leveling Up Series
I’m happy to trade a Hugh Day for a YOU day. The BDH is grateful for all the fictional goodies you send our way, but we support you both as people just as much as we support you as authors.
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If I could dive into any book world, it would definitely be the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. But only if I could be Odette! She’s a sly, feisty, fake-lobster & bisected mastermind who’s cooking all sorts of schemes behind the scenes. Imagine the mischief I could get up to!
Tough to choose just one! But today I’ll go with Name of the Wind. Tomorrow, who knows?
I would love to jump in the world of Clean Sweep..your Innkeeper Series because something about a magical Inn that has doorways to different magical worlds with many different beings being able to come together in one place for rest/relaxation..even watching a fantasy version of The Bachelor, just sounds wonderful! Even murderous trees sounds exciting..from a distance of course haha!
I absolutely love your books but don’t think I’m hardcore enough to be transported into most of them. Certainly not the Kate Daniel’s or Edge worlds, although I think I’d like living at Gertrude Hunt. One of my first sci fi reads was Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and I think as long as I had my towel, I could travel around that universe for a bit.
We can wait patiently for Hugh 2 as the sneak peaks help.
as for what book I would like to be transported into of course any of the KD series but also Eve Dallas in theIn Death series by the prolific JD Robb. I think she would be besties with Kate.
On a good day I’d head to Gertrude Hunt in the Innkeeper series, checking out where All the doors lead to.
On a tough day I’d be in Avonlea from the Anne of Green Gables series, with all the kindred spirits and poufy sleeves I could find.
I think I forgot to respond! Is it too late? Legacy world for me! I love them all, but if I had magic, I might actually Survive there!
Hidden legacies, because powers + beautiful people + working toilets <3
Dolphins of Pern. My love affair with Anne McCaffrey began young and still endures. I want to meet Ruth and talk with dolphins, maybe bond a miniature dragon and have a mad affair with a certain delicious head Harper before he passes.
I think it would be the Innkeeper series. As much as I would like to think I am a badass that could survive post shift Atlanta….I hate the heat and I’d look at someone wrong and be dead in 15 minutes.
I think I could stand a chance in Dina’s world because I would be content to observe all the wonders from the sidelines. I could maintain a low profile and just enjoy living life there.
This is so hard…. I’m going with Ruby Fever. The alliances are in place. I would have access to all the characters and know all the information. I love the Hidden Legacy world and look forward to reading Maggie.
I would love to be a guest in the Fading Land of the Tairen Soul series by CL Wilson.
tak your time and take breaks as needed so you don’t hate the book.
If i could be in a book — This is probably weird, but A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking, by T Kingfisher, where people have magic but in little ways.
Sun Eater. Erred on sci fi in hopes of awesome advanced technology including medicine
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. I would love a kitty cat and a harp.
Mmmm, so many options. Since I am a creature of comfort, anywhere without toilets that flush is right out XD but really, I think I’d like living in Hidden Legacy universe. I just need to stay away from the Big Houses. And Texas 😉
What a hard question! I have read and dreamed in books all my life. I guess, from Ilona Andrews, it would be “Sweep with Me”, to be there for Treaty Stay…
And my second choice is Patricia Brigg’s Sianim novels. Even though they are full of strife, conflict, and war, I find them soothing. “When Demons Walk” is one of my top comfort-reads. So I guess that would be a good choice for picking someplace to live.
One book I’ve always wanted to live in is Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce – my absolute favorite as a child.
The Number of the Beast by Heinlen.
For me it would be the Kate Daniel’s Series!
I would love to live in Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress world! It’s essentially still our world so… safe? but not safe. Idk but hot, kick-ass vampires!
I need my own Ian or Bones. Maybe they have another relative!
the story of sapphire flame.
I’m another person who would like to join the Oxford time traveling historians in Connie Willis’s To Say Nothing of the Dog.
However, I also would love to drop into Wilmington 3 and share the new adventure.
I’d like to visit whatever book I’m reading. so all of them?
I will wait patiently for the next Hugh update. Please sir, may I have some more?
I would love to meet all the amazing characters in Karen Chance’s Dorina Basarb series, or Kim Harrison’s the Hollows, or Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series, or yours, obviously.
I would like a transport to the Hidden Legacy world for a short vacation. Prefer a safe location to watch the shenanigans.
When I was a teenager, I lived in the world of Mercedes Lackey, with the Heralds of Valdemar my closest friends.
I would like to wake up to the world of little fuzzy by H. Beam piper. I was memorized by this world growing up
After pondering it the most I could narrow my answer was to one of the books/series that has magic in it.
Magic Binds
Hidden legacy world. All the good vibes!!
I would love to be a part of the Innkeeper Chronicles. I listen to them on Audible. These beloved stories are my emotional support stories. I love each and every character!
Patricia Briggs Moon Called. I wanted to shape shift into a coyote and hide from wolves
secret giveaway. So many auhors/books to choose from. I love SF/fantasy. So, I cannot pick one and ignore the others. Instead, let’s go with Rex Stout, “Aome Buried Caesar.”
I would love to stroll past the Lake of Shining Waters with Anne Shirley, for just one day.
I would enter T.A White’s Firebird series world. Cause I want to learn how to garden in space, and they seem to have space gardens. Space gardening for the win.
I love all of your books, and reread them often. Sweep of the Blade, for one of many possible examples, is like the literary version of comfort food to me. Thank you for your imagination, your skill and your heart.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, I have lived in these books since the 1990s when my grandmother introduced me to the series…
I need to find my Jamie!!
As an avid reader of over 60 years, I’ve read tens of thousands of books in all genres. Westerns, mysteries, action, fiction, non-fiction, you ane it and I’ve read it. But of all the books I’ve read, only the Innkeeper Chronicles brings me back again and again. Happy, sad, mad or bored, it gives me what I need. It feel like home.
I grew up reading the Narnia books – my inner child would love to go and experience the magic of that world!
Thank you House Andrews for the magic of your worlds! Counting down to Maggie!
That’s a hard question! I’d have to say Clean Sweep only if I was able to be an Innkeeper! Otherwise, it would have to be My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane
Your series are my favorites to reread! I’d go for Clean Sweep or Ruby Fever.
Clifford D. Simak’s book “City.”
The idea that mankind can only find paradise by becoming something alien to mankind.
Thank you guys!
So excited for Maggie! If I could be transported into a book world, I would have to pick Howl’s Moving Castle. I love the way magic blends with modernity, and that it’s just a sidestep from our world!
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley – I love the idea of a magic that has to be cajoled and negotiated with, and is still mostly for simple, everyday things.
I easily see myself in the Hidden Legacy series or the Kinsmen Universe. Any book that can hook me, and build a whole world around me to get lost in!
I want to be in Magic Claims, helping Kate and the the team open up the towers in Fortwood.
I would love to be a Baylor Sister in the whole Hidden Legacy series, but if I had to choose just one book then Ruby Fever. Everyone finally working together with proper resources and development of their talents would be amazing! Plus, I would get to see what isn’t on the page about Arabella and who she is actually interested in.
I would want to be in the Innkeeper series.
Innkeeper, specifically I want to be Maud!
Please take care of yourself. As Count Rugen would say: “Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything.”
Secret Giveaway: I would share 2 books – the 1st is from my childhood, the Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. The characters were so vivid, I reread this book countless times as a child, and imagined the characters were my friends.
The 2nd is more recent (and 3 books so bit of a cheat!), the Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik. The main character’s voice is so clear, she is so powerful and desperately wants/works to not become evil.
In Isaac Asimov’s foundation series is where you can find me.
Secret Giveaway:
If I had to be transported into a book series, I would probably want to go into the series one of the light novel series like Infinite Dendrogram or Shangri-La Frontier, where you can play highly immersive video games while still be able to return to the (still stable) real world, unlike SAO or Ready Player One.
I’d say Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, as that’s about the amount of stress I can handle at present. 😉
Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic books — a reliable comfort read when real life is chaos.
I love this prompt!! Among the Andrews’ lore, if I could be adopted by the Baylors or an Innkeeper’s assistant, I would be all in but otherwise, I have to say the Kushiel’s Legacy world by Jacqueline Carey seems like a moderately survivable, fascinating place.
I hope the rest of the this week isn’t as challenging for Andrews house!
I think I’d like a stint in a Patricia Mckillip books – the RiddleMaster, Od Magic. Otherwise falling into a Kate Daniels book sounds crazy and exciting.
I am a hobbit at heart. For me, the Shire, a good book, cozy fire and all the eats. Gardening, a pint at the Green Dragon, and reluctantly an adventure if Gandalf knocks on my door.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Sons of Adam seem to do pretty well in Narnia, even when their parents curse them with the name Eustace.
I’d love to end up in Middle Earth specifically Rohan.
Even though the character’s aren’t always having a great time, I would want to explore Holly Black’s faerie realm from her The Folk of the Air series.
Sweep in Peace: Vampires, Otrokars, and Merchants oh my! And in comes the Edgers: George, Jack, and Gaston. Mmmm.
Really REALLY glad you are prioritising self-care over unrealistic BDH expectations. Hope you are able to prioritise it over lots of the other demands/requests/expectations of a complex 21st Century life. Isn’t it weird how hard it has become to make self-care the top of our never ending lists these days?
There are so many amazing worlds I’d like to enter! To pick one… the world of the Raksura from Martha Wells.
Tamora Pierce’s Tortall – the book probably would be Wild Magic
Dragon riders of Pern. I want to be a dragon rider with Lessa, F’lar, Ramoth and company…and listen to menolly play all the music
Galley Giveaway: Janet Edwards’s Hive Mind series. Most recent book is “Adversary.” Because the “optimization” phase of their lottery system would ensure I was given work that is ideal for me. Since I was about 8 years old, I have repeatedly wished that some person, system, test or magical item could evaluate me and tell me what I my aptitudes are and what I would both be good at and enjoy doing. It is a rad concept as a basis for a society.
Paladin’s Grace by T Kingfisher because the White Rat’s priesthood is wonderful. Plus a berserker who knits all the socks.
Teenage me would have screamed with joy to jump into Tamora Pierce’s Tortall books. (Kel forever!!)
I would like several worlds. Seanan McGuire’s world of October Daye. Last book read: The Innocent Sleep. Additionally, I find myself drawing back to the worlds of Anne Bishop: The Black Jewels and The Others are quite compelling. I throughly enjoy revisiting Raymond Feist’s Midkemia and Kelewan worlds. Patricia Briggs with Mercy Thompson. The Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. Laurell Hamilton’s Anita Blake and Merry Gentry. I have very much enjoyed your entire oeuvre and have reread it many times. There are so many hardworking authors who create so many wonderful worlds to explore. Thanks to you and all of them.
I would love to live in the world of Becky Chamber’s Monk & Robot series.
What a difficult question! The old farts among us may remember Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber; Amber is a tempting idea! But I dream of living in Gertrude Hunt. I think Gertrude Hunt would edge out Amber as my first choice for a book universe to live in.
Mary Popins.
I love the adventures and the drama of your stories, but I want the biggest issue of my day to be levitating due to a fit of the giggles.
I’d be terrified to be transported into most of my favorite books so I’m choosing “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” lol. although if I’d be like Maggie and couldn’t permanently die in those scarier books they might be worth the trip.
Nalini Singh Psy/Changeling
I would love to be an animal mage in Cornelius and Matilda’s house in the Hidden Legacy world. The number of ferret heists I could run would be awesome!
I would happily live in the Weird
Adrianglia, specifically. Even though I grew up in Louisiana, not a fan of the Dukedom.
If I could be transported into a book, I’d want to be in the world of Howl’s Moving Castle. I absolutely love Howl & Sophie and just want to be an apprentice who goes on magical adventures with them.
For as much as I love the Hidden Legacy series and Kate Daniels series, I know I’m not badass enough to survive in their worlds.
I would like to spend 1 night at Dina’s Inn and eat at Oro’s table with my family. It would be a dream come true. What am adventure!!!!
I’ve been returning to Terry Pratchett recently and I think I’d go to the wider Discworld universe. I’d love a Discworld adventure.
The Practice Effect by David Brin. I don’t want to say why because it would ruin the plot twist but I’d really like to visit Tatir…
If I were transported into a book, I think I would like to be transported into one of the Hidden Legacy books. I am hoping here that I would have some form of magic, so I could do something cool like tell if people are lying or set them on fire.
Anne of Green Gables
Innkeeper seems the most fun plus Orro’s cooking.
I would like to go to the ball in The Starless Sea!!!
There is a weird universe made by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman called Starshield. They intended to make it a series, but it ended up being one book (sentinel). It’s a very odd and interesting universe with a plethora of possibilities because the rules of physics change in different regions of space and there are several alien spacefaring civilizations that traverse these different regions by having ships with multiple types of engines. So its kind of a way to cheat and be able to live in all sorts of books, from magic and medieval to futuristic technocracies.
Hope all is flourishing with you and yours. I would like to live in the hidden legacy world if I was part of the Baylor family and had a strong and interesting power. That sounds like a challenging, fun and useful life.
Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh. Dangerous world but I would totally love to be in the Guild Hunter universe!
Having just finished rereading the entire House Andrews canon, I find that I have to go with The Edge, that introduced me to Ilona and Gordon’s universes back in 2010.
I just reread the Innkeeper series. I just keep coming back to it. It takes me a month to get over the cliffhangers! Thanks for the amazing story.
I think I would like to wake up in the Hidden Legacy series as an animal mage like Cornelius. For so many and varied reasons. Lost my best buddy a few months ago
Innkeeper. I’d be living my ordinary human life in the Avalon subdivision wondering about the old Victorian B&B on the corner and why there was such a commotion a couple aisles over in the Costco the other day.
I want to live in boring times, so it’s hard to pick a fictional world where there’s so much conflict! I have to say the Inn Keeper Chronicles might be the best for me – I get the familiarity of earth and the fun of both Sci-Fi and Fantasy worlds!
I would love to live in Sara J M’s crescent city. I like the combo of modern medicine and magic.
I work as a nurse in the ED and wish I could magically fix the things medicine can’t.
And I feel packaging up insurance claim agents in a neat little box and dropping them into the abyss would be deeply satisfying. 😎
I would end up in Howl’s Moving Castle. I think that the way magic works there would be just perfect for me, PLUS I could get home by finding and asking Wizard Howl to send me (well, I could get to Wales, at any rate). I would hate to be permanently stuck in a book because I do love my family and my two tiny humans, but vacationing in Ingary sounds lovely. Also, Calcifer needs more members of his fan club.
contest. I would like to live in your “Clean Sweep” world. I especially like the vampire world.
Additionally, Thanks for the updates and stories. They really brighten my life.
Innkeeper Chronicles. I want a magic house and to marry a vampire.
Wilmington series. Maybe I could get a sneak peek.
Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs is great. The character development and new characters introduced into the series is 🥰
My favorite books are about magical houses. If it has a magic house I always give it a try but Innkeepers is the best. 😎
I want to be an innkeeper so bad!!!
If I were to be transported into a book, I’d want to pick a nice slice of life romance novel. No high stakes, everyone gets a happy ending, it’s perfectly feasible to work part time at a library and still be able to afford a cute cottage with a garden and have plenty of time for all your hobbies.
That’s my idea of a fantasy! I don’t even need the romance part. I can be the quirky friend who cheers the main couple on from the sidelines, offering tea and advice on topics that I know nothing about.
Innkeeper!! I want to try Orro’s cooking TT
If I could live in any book I would pick Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials, because I love the idea of having our souls displayed externally as companions, and I love that there is evidence of magic in their world, if you know where to look. Also – giant talking ice bears!
Please take care of yourselves, and thank you for all that you do!
I would love to live in the Tortall universe created by Tamora Pierce. Her books and this universe were key motivators that got me into my reading habit in my youth!
If I can go into a story I’ll definitely be in Hugh’s! I’ll give Elara a run for her money:))
Toliken, was read to me by my father when I was a wee girl and couldn’t sleep.
His books are like a well worn favorite blanket. Always want to ride a Smaug in my dreams.
I feel like I would not survive long in most of the books I like, but then I realized that Dina and Sean have yet to lose a guest, so Innkeeper would be my best choice if I went with simply wanting to be in that world.
I feel like for my own health, picking one of the Star Trek books I read in the 80s would be the right choice but I hate time travel, and they are supposed to be the future.
The White Rat world by T Kingfisher I really want to meet Sarkis
I always kind of wondered what it would be like to be back in the prehistoric times of the Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel. The culture she describes would be fascinating, but probably not a comfortable place for a modern person to live for too long.
On the House Andrews side, 100 percent innkeeper, assuming I could visit the inns, other planets, etc otherwise I guess it would be exactly the world I am currently in. lol.
Innkeeper 🙂
But, honestly the more I overthink about it the more terrifying it sounds to be dropped into a universe the more terrifying it seems.
I would love to be transported into the Pay Changeling Series by Nalini Singh. I don’t think I’d survive in any of your series 😭.
For maximum escapism, I’d like to be dropped into Garth Nix’s Abhorsen Series, closer to the time of Goldenhand, as many of the problems are resolved.
If I were transported into a book, I’d want it to be to your kinsmen universe. I would love to see how “Beautiful, vibrant, and passionate, but also savage” Rada truly is!
-Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews
The world of Hidden Legacy for me.
Laini Taylor’s world of Daughter of Smoke and Bones
So many good worlds listed, but I have to stick with Clean Sweep. From the first time a read about Baha-char I have wanted to go shopping there. I also want to taste Orro’s food and have tea with Caldenia.
The other books I would like to visit include The Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Dragons, Fire Lizards, and Dolphins, oh, my) and Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh (who wouldn’t like to live in a tree house near San Francisco).
I’m sorry about your desk. I, too, remember $3000 standing desks. I now have a lovely sit/stand desk for about $125. 🙂 Tech related question: You mentioned your favorite mechanical keyboards previously. Does anyone know if KD keycaps exist anywhere?
I would choose a Hidden Legacy book. Burn For Me was my favorite soo that would be my choice. Thanks for your BLOG! Thanks for your books!
I would live in the Innkeeper world – as a shopkeeper in Baha-char! The smells, the sights , the inhabitants, just out of this world!
I would love to be transported into the Innkeeper books. The idea of being able to travel to different planets just by walking through a portal sounds like it would be an amazing experience. Plus space vampires and werewolves? Yes, please!
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first book that took me to another time and place. I still read it every couple of years.
I would love to enter the Sweep of the Heart. My whole family loves the Innkeeper series and we discuss the world as a family often. I love the breadth of the Sweep of the heart.
I’d like to enter the Innkeeper series. It’s so much like our world with aliens, magic and Beast.
Harry Potter, ideally in a time post Voldy! HP was my first great reading love when I was little and I grew up as the books came out, so those are some deep roots!
I would also be love to pop into innkeeper and hidden legacy, though hidden legacy is very intimidating 😆
Too many of my favorite books have settings with more violence than somewhere I’d actually want to be transported to, so maybe Devon Monk’s Death and Relaxation (the Ordinary Magic series) since the town has a cozy feel with lots of colorful characters.
Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher
Tavi, Max, Kitai and all of the different people like the Canim that all exist together in this one world. I have to read this series every year.
That’s a hard one… For House Andrews books, I’d lean towards the Innkeeper series (as long as I knew in-world about the existence of the inns, of course!). In general, it would be great to be a member of Iain Banks’ Culture universe.
This is hard, but I’m going with “Journey for a Princess” by Margaret Carver Leighton (1960 – dating myself here). It’s historical fiction, set in 9th century England during the reign of Alfred the Great. It’s the story of his youngest daughter, Elstrid (AKA several other names) Elstrid attracts the attention of a Viking. Not wanting to piss off the Vikings, but not wanting to marry her to a pagan, Alfred concocts a plan where she has to go on a pilgrimage to Rome. She has many adventures on the journey, gets captured by Vikings, finds romance and learns a lot.
10 year old me was entranced and yearned to travel with Elstrid. Leighton ended with a bibliographic note that included primary sources. I discovered interlibrary loan because my small town library didn’t own a copy of the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
I reread it every few years and my 73 year old self, with a history doctorate, and a much clearer idea of what things were actually like then, still wants to be transported back.
(It’s available via Archive.org).
I reread it most years.
Thursday Next – by Jasper Fforde (yes this is cheating because in it they go into additional books)
The Turncoat King by Michelle Diener would be my current choice.
Honestly there are a bunch of book worlds I would like to visit, depends on my mood.
If I could choose one book to be swept away in, it would be Clean Sweep. I adore everything about the Innkeeper series. There are many days, especially with the world as it’s been lately, when I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and imagine what my world would be if I were an Innkeeper myself. Then I try and make my imagination real in this life. Your stories help me cope in so many ways. Thank you.
I’d go for one of the Black Jewels trilogy books by Anne Bishop 😍
Rough week, I hope things are better this week. I’ve had a hard time with picking a book into which I would want to b transported. Finally, I decided to pick one I would have chosen when I was much younger. (Since I would only agree to go now if my husband went with me. He’s already throughly demonstrated that he’s the person I want with me when strolling thru hell. Or anywhere else.)
Anyway, so younger me would have been delighted to land in Pern, from the Dragonriders of Pern series (_Dragonflight_ I think is the first book) by Anne McCaffrey. Ideally this would lead to some riding adragonback… Pls file under:another reason why I love Puffles. And also enter me into the drawing for an advance galley. Thanks so much!
Unfortunate as it is to admit this, I think I’d end up dead in the worlds of most of the books I read! That said, I think That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps book 2) by Kimberly Lemming would be cool to visit!
Out of the Ilona Andrews books, I’d pick any of the books in the Hidden Legacy series. Magic being so prevalent but otherwise the world being so similar to ours feels like it’d be an easy(ish?) adjustment.
All Creatures Great & Small – Cozy, warm, full of animals
I would love to rest and recuperate like the Drífan lord during Treaty Stay in Sweep with Me. Maybe even a jaunt to Baha-Char, following Dina as she does errands and makes time for some snacks. (Of course, Orro would be up to the challenge to cook the perfect anything, but sometimes you want to experience a different cafe atmosphere). The nostalgia, sense of belonging, and otherworldly wonder from this book (and later, in Sweep of the Heart when we see the ever evolving, imperfect Drífan throne room) pull me right in.
Dealing with Dragons and the Enchanted Forest (Patrica C. Wrede)
It is sooo difficult to pick just one. As a bookworm from childhood I can think of so many. Not necessarily a favorite book but I do recall loving and wanting to be in the book The Girl with Silver Eyes as a little girl. Found it in the library and it was my first foray into a magic touched world I wanted to transport to. Not sure it holds up as an adult but… As an adult, I’d say Hidden Legacy world (specifically the first trilogy), definitely more then one book of Kristen Ashley’s, Suzanne Wright’s Dark in You world or perhaps Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock series. Love this giveaway question! We are so lucky!
Kushiel’s Legacy a fantasy novel Series by Jacqueline Carey
Lately it would have to be the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. The plot is always captivating and so funny at just the right moments.
I would love to spend time in any of the Innkeeper books! But a long time ago, I read Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsong and have wanted to visit Pern. Also, Mercedes Lackey’s Arrows of the Queen and any of the books in Valdemar.
I would like to live in Clifford D. Simak’s world of The Waystation, as it was the book that got me hooked on reading SF/F
Honestly, my brain struggles with the idea of being transported into a book. The characters are living their own lives—they don’t know me, I don’t belong there, and I’d just be intruding on a story that isn’t mine. But if I had to choose, maybe I’d pick a book like A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. It’s quiet, thoughtful, and all about finding purpose. No one expects you to save the world. You just…exist, explore, and talk to a tea monk or a robot about what it means to be human. That’s a world I wouldn’t mind wandering through for a while.
I would live in The Kings Watch series any of the books would do.
*I apologize, the rest of my answer cut off when posting a moment ago.
If I had to pick a book to be transported into, I can honestly say “Burn for Me” would be a good choice. The modern world, with all current technology and comforts, but potentially the ability to do magic? That sounds perfect, as well as a great chance for adventure. 🙂
Tortall in the Wild Magic era by Tamora Pierce!
Ohhh, Daniel O’Malley “The Rook” and it’s series. If I were to be dropped into a book, I’m partial to those with the comforts of modern plumbing. 😉
Any of the Innkeeper books! but if I had to choose one, it would be Clean Sweep We meet Dina and the Gertrude Hunt, Beast, go to Baha Char …
Dorsai by Gordon R Dickson
First page:
“The boy was odd.
This much he knew for himself. This much he had heard his seniors- his mother, his father, his uncles, the officers at the academy- mention to each other, nodding their heads confidentially, not once but many times during his short eighteen years of life, leading up to this day.”
Sweep of the Heart!!! I would love to experience this story firsthand.
Like many of the readers here I would most likely not survive in any IA world!!! Possibly Innkeeper… If I were to fall into any book it would probably be a Janet Evanovich book! The female characters in her books are basically already me (eat bad food, not a fan of exercise, kinda klutzy…) but with the added advantage of having someone who loves and cares for them as well as being fairly competent at stopping bad guys.
I’m going to go with Seanan McGuire’s Incryptid series. The best of all possible worlds to discover cool new species and people.