AgGrad99 said:

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Madmarttigan said:

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Shallan's story will get better in later books, you kind of have to suffer through her to get to Kaladin and Dalinar.

The ending won't disappoint.

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So I stuck it out, and finished it today. Great Book.

I went from thoroughly confused, to very anxious to see what happens next. So much of the story came together at the very end.

Appreciate the recommendation from the board.

Does book two pick up where the first left off?

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Yes. Book 2 is a better written book imo. I like book 1 personally better, but I don't mean that to detract from how good the second one is.

Words of Radiance is fantastic, and then Oathbringer (#3) is so far my favorite book in the cosmere and maybe overall.

Madmarttigan said:

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So once upon a time we used this thread as our unofficial fantasy book discussion and people would post a lot of great book ideas

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/2328229/1

I think we have all moved on from Rothfuss and it tends to annoy people when we bump that thread so I figure its time to make a dedicated thread where people can throw out new or old book recommendations.

Just as a summary here are a lot of the previous series recommended in that thread.

Fantasy -

Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles (likely to never finish)
Jim Butcher - Dresden Files
Brandon Sanderson - Everything
Anthony Ryan - Blood Song (not so much support for rest of the trilogy)
Scott Lynch - The Gentleman B a s t a r d series
Brent Weeks - Night Angel and Lightbringer
Joe Abercrombie - First Law Trilogy
GRRM - ASOIAF
Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy
Robert Jordan/Sanderson - Wheel of Time
Stephen Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Bernard Cromwell's the Saxon Stories
Stephen King - Dark Tower
Jonathan Renshaw - Dawn of Wonder
Mark Lawrence - The Broken Empire
Brian McClellan - Powder Mage Trilogy

SciFi -
Pierce Brown - Red Rising
James Corey - Expanse series

*I may have missed some since it's a pretty lengthy thread, but it's a good start for a new thread.



Would love to hear some new names that have come around in the past decade.

Also open to scifi as well since Red Rising was a great rec from the other thread.

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There's a new Night Angel (book 4) it was released 25 April 23.

I just finished He Who Fights Monsters. Regular guy wakes up in magical world and goes on adventures. Easy, fun read.

In the same arena, Off to be the Wizard was great too

I mean I really enjoyed the original trilogy and it legit made the room dusty at the end, but not interested too much in another book. Felt like it had a great ending already.

Yeah, not sure if it's a continuation or like a side adventure among the trilogy that wasn't covered.

I finished the Licanius Trilogy by James Islington. The plot and story are solid, and very reminiscent of like Sanderson or Robert Jordan and very much written in the same modern multiple POV character style. The problem with it is that its clearly very plot-driven story telling (or maybe its better to say that when it is character driven, there is only one character who's actions are driving it, everybody else kinda just does what they need to do), none of the characters are very deep and very rarely do they feel like they are driving the plot like most other multiple POV fantasies. Entertaining story, well crafted plot (even while involving things like visions of the future, flashbacks, time travel), decent writing style, weak characters.

Will Wight is offering all his books for free today. I haven't personally read any of his (have had a few sitting on my kindle for a while), but I've heard plenty of folks speak highly of him.

So if you want to give any of them a shot, now's your chance

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CCBXYZ
https://www.amazon.com/Travelers-Gate-Chronicles-Complete-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00Z92K3PG
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CCVM2J
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C78XPJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C11YDHB8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753FP6SP

bluefire579 said:

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Will Wight is offering all his books for free today. I haven't personally read any of his (have had a few sitting on my kindle for a while), but I've heard plenty of folks speak highly of him.

So if you want to give any of them a shot, now's your chance

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CCBXYZ
https://www.amazon.com/Travelers-Gate-Chronicles-Complete-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00Z92K3PG
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CCVM2J
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C78XPJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C11YDHB8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753FP6SP

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Only heard of the Cradle series so may have to grab that at least

The Dog Lord said:

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bluefire579 said:

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Will Wight is offering all his books for free today. I haven't personally read any of his (have had a few sitting on my kindle for a while), but I've heard plenty of folks speak highly of him.

So if you want to give any of them a shot, now's your chance

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CCBXYZ
https://www.amazon.com/Travelers-Gate-Chronicles-Complete-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00Z92K3PG
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CCVM2J
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C78XPJ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C11YDHB8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753FP6SP

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Only heard of the Cradle series so may have to grab that at least

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Traveler's Gate chronicles is good. Nothing groundbreaking but definitely fun reads.

Madmarttigan said:

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Reading the Blade Itself now, also eyeballing one of John Gwynn's series.

Anyone read malice or shadow of the gods?

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Just finished Shadow of the Gods. It's good. Unfinished series (book 2 just came out so could be a long wait for the conclusion).

Revenge based fantasy story with gods and demi gods. It kinda reminds me of Joe Abercrombie but way less nihilistic haha.

New recommendation I don't think has been on here.

The Will of the Many. by Jason Islington
Book one of the Hierarchy Series.


It has a definite Red Rising feel in more of a Fantasy world than a SciFi world. In fact some of the criticism is that the main character is just Darrow. IMO more like Red Rising is OK with me and having just finished I get the comparison but this is definitely an original story. A bit too "convenient" at times but a very solid start to a series.

Finally got around to reading Mistborn (Sanderson). I was pretty underwhelmed based on the all the positivity around it. Was a fun beach read but so many other better books/writers. Feel thebsame way with the First Law series. My recent favorite reads were Broken Empire Trilogy (Lawrence), and The Gentleman ******* series (Lynch).

So many good Recs on this thread.

I'll add one I've really come to enjoy

Phillip Quaintrell - the echoes saga

Sci fi:
The swarm - Frank schatzing (fun single book sci fi ish read)

AgHawkeye said:

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New recommendation I don't think has been on here.

The Will of the Many. by Jason Islington
Book one of the Hierarchy Series.


It has a definite Red Rising feel in more of a Fantasy world than a SciFi world. In fact some of the criticism is that the main character is just Darrow. IMO more like Red Rising is OK with me and having just finished I get the comparison but this is definitely an original story. A bit too "convenient" at times but a very solid start to a series.

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I really liked the Licanious Triology from Islington and didn't know he had a new book out until this post. I just finished The Will of the Many and thoroughly enjoyed it. The first person perspective took a bit to get use to, but it wouldn't stop me from highly recommending it.

kaleb_allison said:

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AgHawkeye said:

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New recommendation I don't think has been on here.

The Will of the Many. by Jason Islington
Book one of the Hierarchy Series.


It has a definite Red Rising feel in more of a Fantasy world than a SciFi world. In fact some of the criticism is that the main character is just Darrow. IMO more like Red Rising is OK with me and having just finished I get the comparison but this is definitely an original story. A bit too "convenient" at times but a very solid start to a series.

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I really liked the Licanious Triology from Islington and didn't know he had a new book out until this post. I just finished The Will of the Many and thoroughly enjoyed it. The first person perspective took a bit to get use to, but it wouldn't stop me from highly recommending it.

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I read The Will of the Many first but am now about 2/3 way through The Shadow of What was Lost. Enjoying so far. A Sanderson feel from the standpoint of fantasy and story building without gratuitous sex or overly violent. I personally am not offended by the others but appreciate things I can share with my children at a younger age.

StinkyPinky said:

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Finally got around to reading Mistborn (Sanderson). I was pretty underwhelmed based on the all the positivity around it. Was a fun beach read but so many other better books/writers. Feel thebsame way with the First Law series. My recent favorite reads were Broken Empire Trilogy (Lawrence), and The Gentleman ******* series (Lynch).

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The first Mistborn trilogy is good, but pales in comparison to Sanderson's other work, especially Mistborn era 2 and The Stormlight Archive.

13B said:

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Madmarttigan said:

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So once upon a time we used this thread as our unofficial fantasy book discussion and people would post a lot of great book ideas

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/2328229/1

I think we have all moved on from Rothfuss and it tends to annoy people when we bump that thread so I figure its time to make a dedicated thread where people can throw out new or old book recommendations.

Just as a summary here are a lot of the previous series recommended in that thread.

Fantasy -

Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles (likely to never finish)
Jim Butcher - Dresden Files
Brandon Sanderson - Everything
Anthony Ryan - Blood Song (not so much support for rest of the trilogy)
Scott Lynch - The Gentleman B a s t a r d series
Brent Weeks - Night Angel and Lightbringer
Joe Abercrombie - First Law Trilogy
GRRM - ASOIAF
Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy
Robert Jordan/Sanderson - Wheel of Time
Stephen Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Bernard Cromwell's the Saxon Stories
Stephen King - Dark Tower
Jonathan Renshaw - Dawn of Wonder
Mark Lawrence - The Broken Empire
Brian McClellan - Powder Mage Trilogy

SciFi -
Pierce Brown - Red Rising
James Corey - Expanse series

*I may have missed some since it's a pretty lengthy thread, but it's a good start for a new thread.



Would love to hear some new names that have come around in the past decade.

Also open to scifi as well since Red Rising was a great rec from the other thread.

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There's a new Night Angel (book 4) it was released 25 April 23.

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I did not like the new Night Angel book. It felt disjointed and was a huge change in tone from the end of the original trilogy. I doubt I read the next one. Weeks' best work was the Black Prism series, IMO.

maverick2076 said:

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13B said:

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Madmarttigan said:

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So once upon a time we used this thread as our unofficial fantasy book discussion and people would post a lot of great book ideas

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/2328229/1

I think we have all moved on from Rothfuss and it tends to annoy people when we bump that thread so I figure its time to make a dedicated thread where people can throw out new or old book recommendations.

Just as a summary here are a lot of the previous series recommended in that thread.

Fantasy -

Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles (likely to never finish)
Jim Butcher - Dresden Files
Brandon Sanderson - Everything
Anthony Ryan - Blood Song (not so much support for rest of the trilogy)
Scott Lynch - The Gentleman B a s t a r d series
Brent Weeks - Night Angel and Lightbringer
Joe Abercrombie - First Law Trilogy
GRRM - ASOIAF
Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy
Robert Jordan/Sanderson - Wheel of Time
Stephen Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Bernard Cromwell's the Saxon Stories
Stephen King - Dark Tower
Jonathan Renshaw - Dawn of Wonder
Mark Lawrence - The Broken Empire
Brian McClellan - Powder Mage Trilogy

SciFi -
Pierce Brown - Red Rising
James Corey - Expanse series

*I may have missed some since it's a pretty lengthy thread, but it's a good start for a new thread.



Would love to hear some new names that have come around in the past decade.

Also open to scifi as well since Red Rising was a great rec from the other thread.

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There's a new Night Angel (book 4) it was released 25 April 23.

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I did not like the new Night Angel book. It felt disjointed and was a huge change in tone from the end of the original trilogy. I doubt I read the next one. Weeks' best work was the Black Prism series, IMO.

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I haven't started it yet. That is disappointing though.

I hope I didn't ruin it for you. It might be someone's cup of tea, but it wasn't mine at all.

One more rec

Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

Kind of zany urban fantasy with the premise that Earth is just a seeded planet for a global Hunger Games style tv show televised across multiple galaxies and the main protagonist tells the story like living an RPG. Science basis to it all but the game is set up fantasy-style.

All the books are free to read with Kindle Unlimited

maverick2076 said:

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I hope I didn't ruin it for you. It might be someone's cup of tea, but it wasn't mine at all.

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Nah. It has been awhile sinceI read the original series (so I might have a hard time comparing them). I have the new one downloaded but I just haven't gotten around to listening to it. I listen to a bunch of books so I invariably end up with some that are less enjoyable but they pass the time.

AgHawkeye said:

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New recommendation I don't think has been on here.

The Will of the Many. by Jason Islington
Book one of the Hierarchy Series.


It has a definite Red Rising feel in more of a Fantasy world than a SciFi world. In fact some of the criticism is that the main character is just Darrow. IMO more like Red Rising is OK with me and having just finished I get the comparison but this is definitely an original story. A bit too "convenient" at times but a very solid start to a series.

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Read this after reading the above. Liked it a lot. There are similarities to RR, but I thought it was different enough and we'll done. Giving the licanus series a try now. Pretty sure I must have read some of the first one at some point. Seems familiar.

Tried the new Night Angel book, couldnt finish it. Worth a shot I guess if you really like the originals (my son love them and liked the new one,) but not on that level to me.

Sci/fi rec

The Chaos Quarter series by David Welch (think they are on unlimited but I buy his stuff to support because I have really liked most all of it.). Kind of a Firefly type space cowboy type feel to me. Well written, great characters and stories. Highly recommend fo a space story Fix.

Not sure if I saw it in this post, but JOHN Scalzi's old man's war (the first three) books are a definate easy recommendation. His stuff is either great or terrible to me, but the great ones are really really worth your time.

The new Red Rising book, Light Bringer, released last week. I'm about 1/3 of the way through and it's really good.

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter was a fascinating little book from Sanderson. Unique romance that makes you think it is lifting from some obvious properties but still upends it. Very influential Cosmere book with lots of fun Magic's and implications for the future of the overall cosmere

Saxsoon said:

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter was a fascinating little book from Sanderson. Unique romance that makes you think it is lifting from some obvious properties but still upends it. Very influential Cosmere book with lots of fun Magic's and implications for the future of the overall cosmere

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I did a WoT reread, read the first 2 secret projects, and reread a few Christopher Moore books this year and kinda burned myself out for a bit. I need to read this soon. It is a beautiful hardcover

Saxsoon said:

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter was a fascinating little book from Sanderson. Unique romance that makes you think it is lifting from some obvious properties but still upends it. Very influential Cosmere book with lots of fun Magic's and implications for the future of the overall cosmere

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Just started it last night, and I'm enjoying it. I'm hoping it lives up to the high bar that Tress set for the secret project books.

Spaceball 1 said:

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I just finished He Who Fights Monsters. Regular guy wakes up in magical world and goes on adventures. Easy, fun read.

In the same arena, Off to be the Wizard was great too

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I'm in book 9 of He Who Fights With Monsters. Been really fun, but I can see how some people would hate Jason. However, I would love if it got a Vox Machina type treatment and was an animated show.

kaleb_allison said:

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The new Red Rising book, Light Bringer, released last week. I'm about 1/3 of the way through and it's really good.

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It's a great read. I'd be curious to hear everyone's order of which is their favorite.

I re-read Iron Gold and it vaulted up in my rankings. Light Bringer was great. Golden Son might be the best of the series though.

maverick2076 said:

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Saxsoon said:

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter was a fascinating little book from Sanderson. Unique romance that makes you think it is lifting from some obvious properties but still upends it. Very influential Cosmere book with lots of fun Magic's and implications for the future of the overall cosmere

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Just started it last night, and I'm enjoying it. I'm hoping it lives up to the high bar that Tress set for the secret project books.

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It is very different for Sanderson. Very much is a slice of life novel in a cosmere world. It is a bit of slow burn but really enjoyable

kaleb_allison said:

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The new Red Rising book, Light Bringer, released last week. I'm about 1/3 of the way through and it's really good.

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Just closed the book! What a ride. Can't wait for the book 7!

Finally finished book 1 of Mistborn (Final Empire). While decent/readable, I think it falls short of the hype. Now 1/3 of the way through book 2 (Well of Ascension) and struggling with it. Will finish (my OCD) but hopes it picks up. After I finish Hero of Ages, not sure I'll give Stormlight a chance if things don't get better. But will hold out hope (I had the same experience with The First Law trilogy, and came around with it finally. In fact, Better Served Cold and Heroes are next to read after Mistborn.

What are your detractions so far on the Mistborn trilogy? I loved them, personally.