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Old 06-03-2015, 01:26 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by dickloraine View Post
Are dragons and swords a requirement? You see, most fantasy series with dragons and swords are nothing like GoT. What do you like on GoT? The prose, the intrigue, the grittiness, the characters etc?
Anyways, here are a few good series:
The Lies of Locke Lamora: Not like GoT at all. But has very good prose and fantastic characters. The world is grim too, but much humor in it. Essentially a heist story going revange. 3 books so far, but bigger than 400 pages, but the first can be read as a standalone.

Anything from Abercrombie. Grim and dark world and characters. Like Martin many twists on tropes.

Mistborn by Sanderson. Quite a contrast to Martin. Action packed, more light sided fantasy, easy to read and the books are not that big.

Some books with dragons and swords:
The Hobbit (dragon) and Lord of the Rings (sword). Classic and brilliant.

Naomi Novik has a series about dragon riders in alternative history.
Dragon Lance. More dragon is impossible. Loved as a teenager, now very trashy, but hey, dragons it has.

Earthsea has dragons. But main character is a wizard. Very good book and series. A classic too.
If I'm honest, I didn't like GoT at all. Read the first book and was quite bored, but I did like the setting, grittiness and unpredictability.

I have read Lies of Locke Lamora - really enjoyable.

Also enjoyed Mistborn.

Hobbit not so much.

Thanks for all your recommendations. Appreciate it.
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