Looking for "R-rated", gritty, gorey high fantasy books (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world

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I wanna read something that's fucking brutal with fighting and sex and all the things, but also WELL WRITTEN (so NOT George R.R. Martin, I can't stand his shit). I want Lord of the Rings on crack and steroids.

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[-] meant2live218@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 3 HERE:

Yeah... I'm stuck on the idea of continuing, but the end of book 3 basically feels like instead of the world being a place that is mutable and changeable, it's instead a deconstruction of the concept of heroism and would rather say that people are themselves, that they can't be changed, and that the wizard has everyone dancing in his palm.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

My friends say it continues to be good... But I got really attached to Logen and, surprisingly, Glokta. He might be my favorite character of the books so far and I kinda assume they are both gone? Makes it hard to want to keep going.

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