Hi! I've been looking through posts here and recently read the 7 Dungeon Crawler Carl books, Thousand Splendid Suns, Hatchet and The Dog Stars based on suggestions for others. I really liked all of them, especially the DCC series.
I read a few others suggested here that I didn't care for as much.
I've read fantasy for decades and I adore well-written ones, but it may be difficult to suggest ones I haven't read unless they're pretty new.
I'm a sucker for great character development. I'll even forgive less than stellar plots if the characters are well done.
That said, I do love a survival or fantasy-based plot. I read all of Stephen King's works as a young adult so horror might be fine too. I'm generally not a fan of mysteries or strictly romance novels, but I could be talked into giving something you found spectacular a try. I absolutely do not enjoy cop/crime stuff.
Please help me out!
by aqualang26
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Have you checked out Joe Abercrombie’s series The First Law? Some of the best characters in fantasy, imo, and a really entertaining series all around if you enjoy his writing. The audiobooks are top tier as well, if you’re into that, narrated by Steven Pacey.
Dark, gritty, funny, character-driven fantasy, starting with **The Blade Itself**. Endlessly quotable, violent, filled with dark humor, great banter, featuring a cast of highly-flawed bastards you’ll come to love. 10 books in total, all excellent. Some people criticize the first book a bit for being light on ‘overarching plot’, it just drops you straight in with various characters in the middle of their individual sticky situations. But it’s a lot of fun getting to know them, imo, and just trust that the ‘plot’ comes together in a big way going forward.
If you’d like to check out a standalone, unrelated to The First Law, and leaning a bit more into the comedic side of things, still featuring all the great characters, violence, and cynical takes on the human condition you’d expect from Abercrombie…check out **The Devils**. A team of supernatural ‘baddies’ set out on a top secret mission across ‘alternate-history-medieval-fantasy-Europe’.