Hey guys,
So, recently, within the last month or two, I’ve been getting into fantasy. I was strictly a Sci-Fi and horror kind of reader, and through a friend, after he suggested I watch something called Tales From Earth Sea, I stumbled my way into fantasy and I really enjoy it. It was something I never read in high school or college, and I don’t know why it’s taking me so long to get into it but I thoroughly enjoy it.
I’ve been told a man in his 40s shouldn’t be into fantasy, but, I don’t know, it feels like home.
Anyway, while I am going through the Brandon Sanderson books, are there any other books out there that contain a world of castles and wizards and dungeons or secret rooms in a castle, or under a castle, and trotting through haunted or disturbed forests, perhaps there’s magic somewhere someplace, but there’s just some sort issue with the King and he is fighting some forces that are looking to dethrone him or some ancient evil is upon the land and, I don’t know, I don’t really know what I’m asking but something like that?
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The Daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty.
Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch.
Bloodsworn saga by John Gwynne.
The Enchanted Forest Chroncles by Patricia Wrede are my all time favorite fantasy novels. They’ve got tons of castles and dragons and princesses and kings and hilarious fairy tale parody elements, and also wizards, but the wizards are evil because they use a parasitic from of magic. They are actually the main villains throughout the series.
Check out {The Curse of Chalion}
I’m not great at synopsis, so here’s the blurb:
“A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, as the secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule.
It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it will ultimately lead him to the place he fears most, the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies, who once placed him in chains, now occupy lofty positions. In addition to the traitorous intrigues of villains, Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle, are faced with a sinister curse that hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. Only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics, can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge—an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous, and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death.”