Done with child of a mad god. I love r.a. Salvatore so much. What should I crack into next let’s see if I can get any I haven’t read yet!
Done with child of a mad god. I love r.a. Salvatore so much. What should I crack into next let’s see if I can get any I haven’t read yet!
Where does one start with him? What kind style does he write?
Where I started is the DemonWar Saga. But he has earlier workings, in betweens, short stories and other standalone novels that are of their own rites. The one thing that draws me back in all of his stories is the descriptive battle. Be it large scale or two well trained warriors doing battle Bob just knows martial ability and as a martial artist in many facets I cannot help but be enthralled by all his writings. Google R.A. Salvatore bibliography and go to town friend it’s all amazing
Start with magician (may be split into magician apprentice and magician master). That is his first. Lots of other books in the same world but he does the generational thing with each new series being the kids or grandkids of the last.
Jim Butcher Codex of Alera! Loved these books they got me into the genre
Try Brent Weeks’ night angel trilogy. Lots of sword fighting and a hard look at good vs evil (though it starts a lot darker than Salvatore) also like Salvatore while there is magic it is a sideline to the main story.
I love Kylar
Durzo Flint is great and the standalone novella based on him was fun too
@Cory probably my favorite series. I really wish he’d do the follow on series planned rather than wasting his time with the color war. I’m really not that enthused by it.
I bet it centers on Kylar’s and Logan’s sons and the high king prophesy. Kylar is a little OP (or a lot) for his story to continue.
I LOVE the lightbringer series! I guess I can’t relate on that end.
@Cory maybe I was too critical but the end of the second book was disappointing and I couldn’t really get into the third book.
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Bruh bruh bruuuuuhhhhhhh you gotta read it
Kingdom of Durundal series. Fantasy/adventure/strong female lead/ believable characters.
https://www.amazon.com/author/seturner
Lost me at strong female lead. I’m not a sexist but as soon as it needs to be stated I already know it’s trying too hard. If this is your personal book I suggest never saying it in a plug post again.
@Cory you know when I wrote it I thought hmmm – shouldn’t say it. Never mind ???⚔️
If you were to say it’s a strong male lead strong Asian lead so on so forth I’d be equally turned off. Best of luck and generalise your characters for promotion.
I only put strong female lead because the concept of fantasy adventure, and the setting with a kingdom, plus my coat of arms etc- may suggest it is male dominated. And whilst it does have predominately male characters, the ‘hero’ that ultimately saves the day is a female.
As an unknown author, I feel I have to tell a little bit more about the premise to encourage ‘all’ readers.
Thank you for you input though.
In chronological order, they are:
The Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn)
The Icewind Dale Trilogy (The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, The Halfling’s Gem)
Dark Mirror, a short story in the Realms of Valor anthology.
The Legacy of the Drow series (The Legacy, Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, Passage to Dawn)
The Paths of Darkness series (The Silent Blade, The Spine of the World, Servant of the Shard*, Sea of Swords)
The Hunter’s Blade trilogy (The Thousand Orcs, The Lone Drow, The Two Swords)
The Transitions trilogy (The Orc King, The Pirate King, The Ghost King)
The Neverwinter series (Gauntlgrym, Neverwinter, Charon’s Claw, The Last Threshold)
The Sundering (The Companions, Book 1)
The Companions Codex series (Night of the Hunter, Rise of the King, Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf).
Homecoming (Archmage, Maestro, Hero).
Timeless.
My actual recommendation is to read them in publication order (swap the first two series) as Drizzt changes significantly between the first series and later ones. To my mind he is more an atypical drow rather than the pure force for good he ends up being in later series.
And if you want my really harsh recommendation, speaking as someone who read up to the Hunter’s Blade trilogy, read the Icewind Dale Trilogy and stop there…
I’ve read all his works and they’re all incredible
Have you read The Malazan Book of the Fallen? Or the Kingkiller Trilogy of Patrick Rothfuss? Or Uprising: Darkfall of the Faeries by Jason Breshears? These are excellent stories
I cannot find Jason breshears any where
Dicey, just Google his name. Look, here, I just googled his books-https://www.amazon.com/Jason-M.-Breshears/e/B01ND35Y5I
Never read darkfall
Read is ambiguous here. Is this a command or a statement of fact? ?
I’ve*
Dicey, Breshears also wrote a novella titled Greric and the Witch of Dimwood that is more horror than fantasy, action-packed and reads like your in the middle of a movie. A dark fantasy
The Kingkiller Trilogy is a misnomer since Rothfuss has yet to release book three
I read kingkiller. Kvothe is cool but the books were a bit tedious. The Adem are awesome. I love books with warrior cultures
@Cory you’ll like Breshears then- puts you on the battlefield, a visual writer. Darkfall of the Faeries is a whole new world with new creatures, dark philosophies- not that same old rehashed fantasy. Graphic and violent
@Cory I’ve always been wondered what would happen to a nerd growing up in a warrior culture like the Adem or the Fremen of dune. That would be a cool story.
This may be a bit off-topic, but the scenario you invoke of a nerd being raised in a warrioer caste is exactly what you find in the 7 book series, The Saxon Chronicles, based on true history fictionalized. A Saxon boy is captured and raised to be a Viking and the books read just like fantasy fiction- very engaging
@Matthew sounds like last kingdom on Netflix. Great show
@Cory You are correct. The Last Kingdom is the name of one of the books in that series. I read them all and felt empty, scraped out and hollow when it was all over because I know the day I will find so well written a story is far off
Uhtrehd
@Matthew I always read it the other way, that the north Umbrian boy never fit in with the Christian English and was far more at home with the barbarian danish vikings.