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Sorivity · **12-31-2014, 12:29 AM**

I finished the rough description of Spellwright, and added another one of my favourite trilogies!

Thank you all so muchÂ for the wonderful feedback and contributions! Please, keep them coming!

TheBlob · **12-31-2014, 01:39 AM**

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is a favorite of mine (thanks to my husband for introducing me to it!).

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Confessors, Wizards, Mord-Sith, and ordinary people being extraordinary. What more can you ask for? The writing is brilliant and while I normally don't enjoy overly verbose authors, Goodkind has a way of weaving this brilliant picture that you can't help but get pulled into. His characters are extremely well developed and grow perfectly with each hardship and quest they face.Â Oh! and nothing he writes is simply to fill words on a page or to give you a break from the main story. Everything has a purpose. A small detail from an early book can come back to be the answer they're looking for in one of the last.

It's a story ofÂ a man thatÂ refuses to sacrifice his values and conform to bad people in powerful places. Â It's a story of others understanding what it means to be free and that freedom is worth sacrificing for. It's a love story. The story starts out dim, fades to dark, dips into hellish yet all the while you have this hope being pumped through the story through the main characters that pulls you through and keeps you going right along with them no matter what happens.

Did I mention well developed characters? And the magic in these books. We all know wizards. Magic, pew-pew laser beams. Goodkind sticks to the familiarity of 'high fantasy' but in the same turn expounds upon it in such phenomenal and creative ways.

Also.. Moth** F**king Mord-Sith. My favorite 'bad guy' ever.

Edit:
Do NOT watch the TV series they made about this book series. It's AWFUL.
(When compared to the book series... if watched as a stand alone.. meh. I liken it to Xena or Hercules minus a lot of the levity.)

Faye · **12-31-2014, 01:51 AM**

(12-30-2014, 06:53 PM)Lilithium Wrote: There's more books to the series then what's shown here, and while it's technically a collection of romance novels there's a rich story underlying everything and each book ties it together. Love, love, LOVE this series!

The Dark Brotherhood series... yaaaaaas! I really need to get caught up on it! I love smutty vampire novels and I will have no shame.

Faye · **12-31-2014, 01:53 AM**

I can never find anyone else who's read these... but the Sevenwaters series is a personal favorite of mine.

Parvacake · **12-31-2014, 02:01 AM**

(12-31-2014, 01:51 AM)Faye Wrote:
(12-30-2014, 06:53 PM)Lilithium Wrote: There's more books to the series then what's shown here, and while it's technically a collection of romance novels there's a rich story underlying everything and each book ties it together. Love, love, LOVE this series!

The Dark Brotherhood series... yaaaaaas! I really need to get caught up on it! I love smutty vampire novels and I will have no shame.

ITS SO GOOD I CAN'T FREAKIN' STAND IT hn0rgwr8gfw

Steel Wolf · **12-31-2014, 09:02 AM**

One of my favorite recent-ish (as in recently read, not recent release) is Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts.

Not only does it write a pretty believable lesbian heroine, but it features an excellent meshing of high fantasy and modern location Easily one of the coolest fantasy novels I've read recently.

I also adore The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham, which reads like a fantasy political thriller...like the Game of Thrones series with less needless murder used as a plot device. I've gotta get more from that series.

Still trying to find some fun, engaging, a bit light-hearted sci-fi. All I keep running into is pedantic post-apocolyptica or some over-explained nonsense from someone trying like hell to be the next J.R.R. Tolkein in terms of writing style. >.<

In short: I miss Hitchhiker's Guide and Firefly and Cowboy Bebop.

...also I'm gonna go ahead and admit that vampiric smutty novels are fun and I don't care who knows it. I'd totally love a gay vampire smut novel. Or gay fantasy novel. I'm unashamed.

Melodia · **12-31-2014, 09:08 AM**

I would like to toss my two gil worth and throw out the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It's seven books and worth the journey even if frustrating at times. It's got all the elements you need:

1) A hero (and more) you can root for and actually care about
2) A villain to loathe (among others)
3) A fantastic setting with magic and fantasy dwelling among the ruins of a familair world and technology.
4) A journey

Please take time to read this series as it is fun and while not perfect, it's a great read. Moogle

Dogberry · **12-31-2014, 09:21 AM**

Do you like history? Do you like the idea of history but feel it doesn't have enough BADASS DRAGONS?!

Then friends, let me introduce you to the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik!

OK so picture the Napoleonic Wars. Lots of ships sitting in a line, firing cannons at each other. BORING.

Now picture the Napoleonic Wars, with all the ships of the line and stuff AND A BUNCH OF FIRE BREATHING, ACID SPITTING, VISCIOUS DRAGONS.

Now I know what you're thinking. Dragons are cool, but they don't make for compelling drama. HOLD UP ONE MINUTE! THESE DRAGONS ARE DRAMATIC AS HELL!

Each dragon is a sentient, intelligent being, and is handled by a crew of riders. The dragons will bond with one person AND ONE PERSON ONLY. Dragons outlive humans by a substantial margin. Awww. Now this isn't a matter of humans controlling some beast. The dragon picks who it wants. That person now belongs to that dragon. It will of course listen to its human. Oh it loves its precious little human like we would love a hamster, and if that hamster could talk we'd probably do what it says, too.

There's a whole WORLD of dragons up in these books, being all cute and dragony but also brave and adventurous and sometimes downright scary, and they're running through your history class, knocking books off your teacher's desk and writing obscene things on the chalk board because these dragons are CRAZY!

Temeraire series! Naomi Novik! His Majesty's Dragon!

MikoBehnen · **12-31-2014, 04:05 PM**

Ahhh I love so many of these series already!

My list of to reads not already mentioned:

1. David Eddings (He has 2... technically 4 series that I've read well over 10 times a piece)
2. Piers Anthony's Xanth series ('cause how can you not!)
3.Â The Banned and the Banished series by James Clemens (dark fantasy and really good)
4. and I'm seconding The Darktower series and the Temeraire books (so good)

and that's just the fantasy stuff!Â
Books are the best things.

Aris · **02-04-2015, 04:58 PM**

Highly recommend The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, it's brilliant. Just finished the third book. Someone read it so we can talk about it.Â Tongue

Telluride · **02-04-2015, 05:09 PM**

Some of my favorites:

The ILLUMINATUS Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

The GORD THE ROGUE books by Gary Gygax, for the quintessential High-magic D&D experience.

Piers Anthony's BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT series was a fun read, and his book PROSTHO PLUS is the closest you'll come to Douglas Adams without reading Douglas Adams (which you should anyway)

READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline, if you grew up on gaming at all.

The first and original four of Frank Herbert's DUNE books. You can skip the rest; the good stuff's there.

GRUNTS by Mary Gentle - a satirical and fun poke at the entire Fantasy Genre

REDLINERS, and all of the HAMMER'S SLAMMERS books by David Drake, my favorite of the grittier Sci-Fi writers.

ARMOR by John Steakley

The actual STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein, as well as STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, remain potent.

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