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Books like Starblade Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Starblade Chronicles is dark fantasy and fantasy, about monster hunting, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Starblade Chronicles is 3 books, 2014–2017.

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World of Ice and Fire
Malazan
Witches Steeped in Gold
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Grishaverse
The Circle of the World
Night Angel
Shattered Sea
Red Queen

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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Witches Steeped in GoldSeries

seriesCiannon Smart2 books2021

About enemies to lovers and political intrigue.

Start with Witches Steeped in Gold →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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The Circle of the WorldUniverse

universe29 books2006

Grimdark.

“What sets it apart is the honesty of its cynicism — close, sardonic points of view, gallows humour, and a flat refusal to let anyone stay clean.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Blade Itself →

Night AngelUniverse

universe6 books2008

Dark fantasy and fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about assassins, set in secondary world.

“There are killers, and then there are wetboys — and the difference is that a wetboy never misses, because the magic in his blood will not let him.”
from the catalogue description

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Shattered SeaSeries

seriesJoe Abercrombie4 books2014

Epic fantasy.

“Yarvi, el hijo menor del rey, nació con una malformación en una mano que ha llevado a todo el mundo, incluso a su propio padre, a considerarlo «medio hombre».”
from the catalogue description of Half a King
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Start with Half a King →

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution and class conflict.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Starblade Chronicles?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to Starblade Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Starblade Chronicles?: A New Darkness. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Starblade Chronicles.
How big is Starblade Chronicles?: Starblade Chronicles is 3 books, 2014–2017.
Is Starblade Chronicles finished?: Yes — 3 books, 2014–2017.

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