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Posted 2025-04-12 7:50 AM (#32557 - in reply to #30718)
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I may not get to the Glen Cook 'Black Company' series with this challenge but I have had my eye on it for a while. I believe it is generally considered to be a brilliant example of the genre from before it was a considered sub-genre. I may bump this up on my reading list.

I finished 'The Name of the Wind' yesterday and I really enjoyed it but it didn't really fit the genre. Rothfuss has been compared to Scott Lynch but the first in the Kingkiller series feels very different in tone. One of those books which you really like but can't help pointing out things that annoy you with it.

My next book will be Robin Hobb's 'The Mad Ship'. This is something generally not included in grimdark canon but the tone in the first book in 'The Liveship Traders' series, 'Ship of Magic' definitely hit those notes for me. It can be incredibly dark in places so I'm comfortable with it's inclusion.

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