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What shall I read after completing the Farseer series?

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parrotonmyshoulder · 03/11/2018 20:20

13 books. All read back to back, with some non fiction in between.
I’m bereft.
I don’t know what to read now. I loved the pure, easy escapism.
Any suggestions? Preferably a trilogy (or more).

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BobbinThreadbare123 · 03/11/2018 20:43

Jacqueline Carey? The Kushiel series is 3 trilogies, effectively. Really detailed and evocative.

Tfoot75 · 10/11/2018 18:35

I’ve just seen this, and the 13 books confused me, as I could think of 15 (5 trilogies), but having searched on amazon it looks like I missed the fact that the dragon keepers trilogy was actually a set of 4 and I’m sure I haven’t read the last one, though that was not my favourite set. So, if you have only read 13 of them, I suggest you go and read the missing trilogy, whichever it is!

cucumbergin · 11/11/2018 14:44

What else apart from the escapism do you like? Is it the setting, character development, writing style that helps make it for you? Do you want a really long series to fall into or would a "mere" trilogy do?

Juliet McKenna may be worth a try for the latter - I read the Lescari Revolution trilogy recently but she has a few others.

Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series is good but the first 3 books are more standalone with overlapping characters than one story arc. Starts with The Curse of Chalion. The later Penric books are more novellas and do follow a story arc - same world, set a bit earlier (I think).

Or Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series (not sure how many books by now - main character is an assassin, and a human in a society where Dragaerans (aka elves) are the dominant group.)

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