Since a lot of people in this community seem to enjoy the Game of Thrones style of fantasy, I'd like to recommend Glen Cook's The Black Company. The series follows a band of elite sellswords in a high fantasy setting, but with very gritty, dark fantasy overtones. It is essentially the story of the grunts in the trenches fighting it out in wars between heroes, legends, and gods.
The writing style takes a bit of getting used to, since certain important events will be described in immense detail while other events that an author like GRR Martin might spend tens of pages depicting from multiple perspectives are conveyed in a single paragraph. It can get especially jarring in the later books when the first person narrator shifts with far greater frequency than in the earlier ones.
All in all, a great and largely underexposed series that I think a lot of people (especially on these boards) would enjoy.
The writing style takes a bit of getting used to, since certain important events will be described in immense detail while other events that an author like GRR Martin might spend tens of pages depicting from multiple perspectives are conveyed in a single paragraph. It can get especially jarring in the later books when the first person narrator shifts with far greater frequency than in the earlier ones.
All in all, a great and largely underexposed series that I think a lot of people (especially on these boards) would enjoy.
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