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Someone recommended this series to me and I read the first two books in a month. I’m really enjoying the series.

Any other good fantasy you guys can recommend?

>> No.11067128

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik is pretty good and entertaining to read. Quality declines after the first few books though. It's basically fantasy mixed with historical alternate reality fiction.

People here like to shit on the Eragon series, but I found it quite enjoyable, even though it was mostly because of the worldbuilding.

The Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series by Tad Williams was also quite entertaining, although it has been years since I last read it.

One book I have never seen mentioned in an sffg thread is "Chase the Morning" by Michael Scott Rohan. That book also left an indelible impression with me.

>> No.11068300

Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence. Imagine A Clockwork Orange meets ASOIAF injected with near-future technology peppered into a medieval landscape.

Start with Prince of Thorns


Just finished the Red Queen's War trilogy in same universe. The world-building is really fun.

>> No.11068390

Book of the New Sun
Nothing else comes close

>> No.11068418

>>11068300
>Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence.
>actually recommending this shit

I'm not even being hyperbolic when i say Prince of Thorns is one of the worst books i've ever read.

>> No.11068430

>>11068418
Eh, I agree with the recommendation, I really like Lawrence's work. Went into it expecting it to be shit, but really liked it. I will say that "Red Sister" is better though....

>> No.11068679

>>11066036
There's a general for this

>>11067855

>> No.11069265

>>11068418
It's the weakest of the trilogy, but isn't that a good thing?

Please give me an example of a similar premise done better.
>inb4 faggot Shannara

>> No.11071078

shallan is terrible, end up skimming or somehimes passing all her chapters

>> No.11071088

>>11071078
>skipping the best character
lmao at ur lif

>> No.11071315

>>11068418
I agree that Lawrence is garbage, but IMO Sanderson is even worse. Modern genre-fantasy is all pretty bad unless you are an 18 year old gamer with a hardon for "rule-based" magic systems.

>> No.11071649

>>11071088
Shallan sucks but Pattern is based so it evens out.

>> No.11071897

>>11066036
I couldn't even finish the first book because it was such utter rubbish (or so I thought at the time). Is it ACTUALLY worth reading?

>> No.11072087

How are Brandons other works?

>> No.11072691

>>11071078
Agree

>> No.11072814

>>11072087
Im in the second book of his mistborn series. Simple writing but the way he unfolds the plot keeps you interested

>> No.11073074

>>11071315
Rule-based magic systems really are the fucking worst. It all just inevitably devolves into lengthy descriptions of scenes from Naruto.

>> No.11073168

>>11066036
Kinda loved The Blade Itself. Writing style is spot on, and the autor really dials down the amount of bullshit so prevalent in modern fantasx.

>> No.11073539

>>11071897
im currently half way through. I originally was skeptical if id finish but am now really enjoying it.