Need a Fix!

Jaxxy

I finished A Feast For Crows today. I foresee a vast empty hole of nothingness between now and the 12th of July, while I must wait without an epic to gorge upon. Can anyone suggest anything of a similar vein I can pick up in the meantime? I've perused the Best Fantasy books thread but there is so much to choose from and needs must!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I feel my own winter is coming.

pH

Have a look here and check out Books Similar to A Song of Ice and Fire.

Personally I'd go with Abercrombie's First Law trilogy, and the 2 Rothfuss books.

sentient_6

What other fantasy stuff have you read or is a song of ice & fire where you've started?

There so much out there it’s hard to call really. I would say Magician by Feist is essential reading, & can be read as a standalone book in my opinion cos the quality dips considerably after.


Hobb's Farseer Trilogy is one i'd suggest putting on the list.


Malazan Book of the Fallen is brilliant but its probably not worth getting into now if your looking to read Dance on the 12th. One to consider when your done though.

Jaxxy

sentient_6 wrote: »

What other fantasy stuff have you read or is a song of ice & fire where you've started?

I'm more of a science fiction girl, but have delved into some Fantasy before. I read and enjoyed Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy, but struggled with her first book of her Age of the Five series. I've also read and loved Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet, but strangely enough couldn't get through his follow up Song of the Tears trilogy. So it seems that some authors are a bit hit and miss for me.

Thank you both though for your suggestions, I'll certainly be looking into them. Today is the first day in a long time I haven't had anything to read and it felt very, very weird!

Sleepy

You could always dig out the Dunc and Egg series - Hedge Knight & The Sworn Sword, which take place in Westeros a few hundred years before the events of ASOIAF.

keno-daytrader

Yep Robin Hobb's Farseerer! Amazing books.

rere

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

I'm more of a science fiction girl, but have delved into some Fantasy before. I read and enjoyed Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy, but struggled with her first book of her Age of the Five series. I've also read and loved Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet, but strangely enough couldn't get through his follow up Song of the Tears trilogy. So it seems that some authors are a bit hit and miss for me.

That's funny, I was the exact same. They were just a little... boring.

Hobbs books are brilliant, she's one of my favorite writers but avoid the Soldier Son Trilogy (no one's perfect).
Trudi Canavan is great too.
You'll be busy for a while if you get into Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's solo work is pretty good too.

coffee_cake

My usual recommendations are katharine kerr, robin hobb, kate elliott, and you can add rothfuss and bakker onto that now as well
robert jordan is one of my definite favourites of course!

me-skywalker

Sleepy wrote: »

You could always dig out the Dunc and Egg series - Hedge Knight & The Sworn Sword, which take place in Westeros a few hundred years before the events of ASOIAF.

Yea definitely read these 3 novella's after you read ADWD, its not hundreds of years, it actually starts 89years prior to the events in AGOT.

Jaxxy

Well I've just finished ADWD, so these posts are very well timed indeed. Thanks again everyone for your suggestions!

fitz

I'll second the Malazan series, it's incredible.

Jaxxy

Okay I've got Hobb, Erikson and Rothfuss to start with, since they were the ones mentioned most throughout the thread. I've read the GRRM novellas so it's time to move on to something new. I'm a bit hesitant to jump in to Jordan's universe, since it's pretty involved and I've heard some very varying reports about the series.

Anyway, think I'll start with the Farseer trilogy for now, or perhaps the two Rothfuss books before I ease myself into the Malazan series. Pretty happy I have so much unread and available! Thanks for all the help folks.