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Uncreative — 6 months ago(September 23, 2025 02:48 AM)
I read the rest of this series around 10 years ago. This one is a prequel of sorts, maybe a mid-quel? I've heard it's not as good as the others but we'll see. I know he's got some other new ones coming out soon after a 25 year break.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 23, 2025 02:57 AM)
Very nice! I've pretty much stopped reading fantasy myself due to neither George R.R. Martin or Patrick Rothfuss publishing anything in nearly 15 years. I don't particularly want to get enthralled in another series only to have the same thing happen again. But I did take a chance on Christopher Buehlman's
The Blacktongue Thief
and it's prequel
The Daughters' War
relatively recently and found them enjoyable.
Any good (completed) fantasy series you can recommend? They tend to be good winter reading in my experience.
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Uncreative — 6 months ago(September 23, 2025 03:58 AM)
Despite having 4 more in the works The Black Company has been complete since 2000. It starts off following a group of mercenaries workouts for the big scary villain. If I was an eccentric billionaire with an unlimited amount of money to throw into a live adaptation of something it would probably be this. After the first trilogy it gets a lot weirder.
I'm assuming you read Lord of the Rings at some point in your life.
Wheel of Time famously has its ups and downs but in general I liked it. The middle part of the series definitely drags though.
Discworld is a much sillier version of fantasy. They're almost all stand alone books with various recurring characters. Small Gods was my favorite of the bunch.
Song of Achilles and Circe were both interesting takes on Greek myths. Achilles isn't bad. If the MAGAs of the board could read I'd love to trick them into starting it. It's extremely gay so their reactions would be hilarious. Circe is the better of the two by far.
Helliconia kind of sits on the borderline of sci-fi and fantasy. It's a trilogy on an alien planet with the same GOT gimmick of extended seasons taken to 1,000 year extremes.
Fevre Dream was a southern vampire story by George RR Martin that I liked a lot.
The Conan the Barbarian stories are worth checking out.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 23, 2025 04:31 AM)
I have read Lord of the Rings, Song of Achilles and Conan (I've actually read a ton of Robert E. Howard; in my opinion, he was a much better writer than his friend Lovecraft). Discworld has been on my radar for a long time and I really should give it a shot someday.
I'll look into some of the others! The Armageddon Rag is the George R.R. Martin novel I've had on my to-read list for a while.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 27, 2025 03:18 AM)
Cool. My local library actually started a romantasy book club a few months ago and it seems to be doing well!
Not quite the same thing maybe, but have you heard of the book
Sterling House
by Alix E. Harlow? It's a gothic romance fantasy set in Appalachia… as well as in another realm
I really enjoyed it!
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