I want to read a recent(ish) fun fantasy series with an eighteen year-old male protagonist, that has immense worldbuilding and greatly-written characters. Any suggestions?

  • LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    People need to stop recommending Pat Rothfuss. His stuff is awesome but he’ll never be done it and as such were just adding more people to this waiting room of misery. Books that are equally excellent AND the author delivers:

    • The First Law Trilogy
    • Stormlight Archives
    • Codex Alera
    • Assassins Apprentice
    • Red Rising (not fantasy but an amazing SciFi)

    First Law and Red Rising are my top favourites!

    • TheloniusFuegoRhymes@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been hard avoiding Kingkiller because I don’t want to become invested in what sounds like a truly spectacular first couple of books.

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        1 year ago

        They are really good but they’re not earth-shattering, you MUST read these.

        If I knew then what I know now I would never have read them until the 3rd book is out.

        • TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net
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          Well, I was promised that the 3rd book will be out. The description said that Rothfuss had already completed the trilogy and its all in the matter of editing, so I was confident going in thinking the chance of a complete series in the next few years is high. I would never imagined that he would go George RR Martin’s route, even Martin had wrote five books in the series.