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JoushioJoushio Member Posts: 8
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Fantasy book? I'm looking for something to read before I hit the sack, I enjoyed the Dark Elf series( I think thats what is was) Anyway, any suggestions?

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  • IlliusIllius Member UncommonPosts: 4,142

    Well if you read all of those books I think there's about 15 or more, you might like Servent of the Shard trilogy.  It deals with Artemis Entreri, the assassin and his personal exploits along with other characters you might know.  I thought it was good.  After or before that you can also check out The Cleric Quintet.  It's about Caderly Bonaduce, a priest in the snowflake mountains and how he goes from a young man to a powerful priest again accompanied by characters you might know from the other series.

    Also, give The Hunter's Blades Trilogy a try.  It continues the story from where Dark Elf series ends.  There is also a new trilogy being written called Transitions - The Orc King.  It takes place after Hunter's Blades.

    All of these take place in the Forgotten Realms and are written by the same author.  I figure if you liked what you mentioned, this should be right up your alley.

    No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-

  • JoushioJoushio Member Posts: 8

    Awesome, Thanks so much I'll definatly check those out. Cheers!

  • LaserwolfLaserwolf Member Posts: 2,383

    Orson Scott Card's 6-book Seventh Son series is pretty interesting. It is certainly Fantasy, but takes place in the 19th Century(1800s) and involves historical figures like Napoleon and Lincoln.

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  • SharajatSharajat Member Posts: 926

    Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself / Before They Are Hanged / The Last Argument of Kings

    Brilliant trilogy, absolutely engrosing characters, really interesting.  Ignores or plows through a whole hell of a lot of annoying fantasy cliches, and makes you care about the characters - to which anything bad can and frequently does happen. 

    C.S. Friedman - The Coldfire Triolgy

    Another brilliant trilogy, Gerrard Tarrant stands as one of the scariest, coolest, most interesting characters ever. 

    China Meivelle - Perdido Street Station (or The Scar, or Iron Council)

    All brilliant books, by a very good author.  Highly recommended. 

    Brian Sanderson - The Final Empire Trilogy

    I was worried when they announced someone would be finishing Jordan's series (I'm thinking of the new Dune novels here).  Then I read his trilogy.  Now I'm thinking the series might have been in better hands if Sanderson was writing it from the start.  Very interesting characters, great great novels.

    In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

    -Thomas Jefferson

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