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series7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
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Start with The Time of the Dark →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Dark in tone, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
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Start with Gardens of the Moon →

includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Witness Trilogy

The White Mists of PowerNovel

Kristine Kathryn Ruschstandalone novel1991

Adventurous in tone, about political intrigue and court intrigue.

“Synopsis -An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city.”
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The Prison HealerSeries

series3 books2021

About revenge.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
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Start with The Prison Healer →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
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Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes Heritage of Shannara, Legends of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, The Genesis of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara

Flightless FalconNovel

Mickey Zucker Reichertstandalone novel2000

Sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, about found family and parenthood.

“Tamison had been a miner until the cave-in which killed his brother and father, and left him trapped behind a wall of rubble, cut off from light and life for what seemed like eternity.”
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