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[darchildre]

Friends, I am in the mood for reading some epic fantasy. Would you like to recommend some epic fantasy?

Here are things I like:
- Glossaries. If your book has a glossary in the back, I am halfway to loving it already.
- Religion. Interacting with the gods = cool. Characters with coherent religions actually shown practicing their faith = cooler.
- Fantasy lands that aren't just England. I mean, England is cool and I love me some fantasy!Vikings, but it's nice to go other places as well.
- Nifty and coherent magical systems, if we're doing that kind of magic.
- Kickass ladies.
- Interesting villains. Interesting villains with interesting motivations who don't lose just because they suddenly caught the Idiot Ball on page 500.
- And if said interesting villain just happens to have an even vaguely interesting minion, well...that would be a definite plus for me.
- Happy endings. I don't mind if there's suffering to get there, but I'm not in the market for bleak right now.


And things I don't like:
- Stories that aren't finished. I am not up for another George R R Martin right now.
- On that note, I'd really prefer to avoid sexual violence, if at all possible. Or graphic violence in general, though that's more negotiable.

Anybody have any recs?

Comments

[wychwood]

Hi! Surfing past on my network, I couldn't not stop by and recommend The Curse of Chalion and its sort-of-sequel Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold, if you don't know them; alternate fantasy world which is kind of mediaeval Spain, awesome gods that interact with people, a really interest system of... miracles, rather than magic, but it totally counts.

[darchildre]

I have read the Chalion books, but they were awesome and it's been quite some time - possibly, it is time for a reread. Thanks.