Fantasy Thread

SDMDAM

After 20 years of reading this series and a full re-read starting in June last year I finished A Memory of Light today - bittersweet experience as you might expect.  Thought Brandon Sanderson has done a magnificent job with these books considering it is not his imagination.  A few minor niggles apart I though it was a great ending - few shocks along the way too!

Kristian

I finished this over the weekend.  Definitely a bittersweet experience.  On the one hand it was great to finally get a conclusion to the whole saga, but on the other I just didn't want it to end.  I want to know what happens next to all the major players.  How could it end the way it did; it just seemed a very brief end for the final few pages

Epic is certainly a good word.  The majority of last book is all about the battles while the narrative flicks between all the various characters.  There are so many characters that I wanted to read about but it seemed there are just too many to write about in the space allowed.

On the whole BS has done a great job and I feel slightly lost knowing there won't be another WoT book.  I'll just have to go back and re-read the last few again...

phatnovice

If you like your Fantasy to be dark and subtle with a little twist, I can thoroughly recommend pretty much anything written by Tad Williams. His Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series (his Lord of the Rings analogue I guess) is a sword and sorcery type but his Otherland series is as far removed from that as possible. Some people may call this Sci-Fi but I think it's more of a techno fantasy and deserves more exposure than it gets.

kopchoir

The name of the wind and the wise mans fear by Patrick Rofthfuss are amazing only 1 recommendation in this thread.
You can keep your Game of thrones books

jenam93

Has been mentioned a fair amount in other threads on here though

Fantastic read for sure!

Courtjezter

I have recommended them in another thread but i would have to say that Mark Lawrence' Broken Empire trilogy is bloody marvelous, especially the middle book in the series, The King of Thorns, although they are all great with a compelling main character.

Hangerhead

I've read book one, and on the strength of that, i had bought books 2 and 3 anyway.
i would also recommend 'The long Price' quartet by daniel abraham.

Courtjezter

Book 2 is slight change of style from the first book, as it took me a little while to get used to the flitting between 2 different timelines, but there is a reason for the structure and i was grinning by the end of the book.  But i shalln't spoil it.