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zetadog:
The President's Vampire series by Christopher Farnsworth is pretty good. There only seems to be one supernatural "good" guy. and half the story is told through the perspective of his human handler.
The Monster Hunter series by Larry Correia is also pretty good.
UncommonSense:
--- Quote from: Quantus on July 31, 2018, 01:37:48 PM ---All things Brandon Sanderson.
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This, however, The Mistborn Trilogy is the only one(I believe) of his series that is fully completed. The rest are serialized and in progress. Not to dissuade, however we could easily find ourselves in another situation where we're just waiting for the next book for years.
That being said, big fan of his newest series, The Way of Kings.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen starts slow, gets really good, but then, for me, unravels a bit. Erikson is a good world builder but his world got a little to big for me to keep track of. So many characters and places, magic systems, politics, it gets a bit much. There are some absolute standout books and characters however.
Everyone raves about the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the first book was excellent. The second book was...unsatisfying and now we've been waiting several years for the "conclusion" with no end in sight.
I'm torn about my feelings toward The Iron Druid Chronicles. I've read the whole series and while I liked the Atticus initially, he constantly chooses the wrong path. While we, as the reader, question his decisions they bring him more and more sorrow. It almost reads like a Greek tragedy. I liked the series and read it through to the end, even read most of the shorts, but I'm conflicted as to whether I can honestly recommend it.
I've only ever read Ender's Game, and not the succeeding books, because I heard middling reviews of them, but it's worth a read as a standalone.
In terms of non-series books, read American Gods and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, they're excellent. The nostalgia factor of Ready Player One kept me interested, but I think it could have been a better book with a stronger third act.
Bear in mind, any criticism I have is tempered by the fact that I am not creative and cannot write worth a damn. These are my opinions and I would gladly listen to any counters you have as maybe I've missed something.
flying peach:
I just finished 5 ebooks that are the free type with kindle unlimited that's the Montague and Strong series. Worth a try if you have kindle unlimited. It has good and bad things about it, but I liked it. The character references that wizard in Chicago (meaning Harry Dresden) but he also references a wizardly type in Saint Louis in the same sentence. Anyone know who that is?
Anyway, the main character is cursed to immortality by Shiva, has a time stopping sigil on his wrist that causes a dominatrix librarian dressed lady luck to appear and slap him around a bit, a pet hellhound, and is best friend's with a mage who he operates a detective agency with.
mentallooser:
I've tried a number of series that are supposed to feel similar. Never found anything that didn't veer too close to tropy corny fantasy romance, or just wasn't all that good. Butcher kind of has a corner on this whole thing. Did really love the codex aleta. Sadly the new one is something I have failed to get through about a dozen or so times
Just Al:
I've been enjoying the Laundry books by Charles Stross, where magic is a function of higher math, and if you discover one of the functions that can summon one of the outsiders (he doesn't call them that) the folks from the Laundry show up and make you a job offer you (literally) can't refuse.
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