Werthead
January 15th, 2008, 07:26 AM
Thanks for the replies guys. :) Although I've read most of what's suggested here there are still some interesting titles.
I remember considering The Monarchies of God a while ago, but can't for the life of me remember why I decided to not read them.
But, and this may seem silly, do they use guns in the Kearney books?
I am kind of a fantasy elitist, don't want anything modern in my fantasy books ;). Unless I'm reading urban fantasy of course.
Keep the suggestions coming guys, I'm soaking in ideas here.
Kearney's book is a Epic Renaissance Fantasy, not a Medieval Fantasy. The book opens with the equivalent of the Fall of Constantinople in the late 15th Century and moves on from there, so cannons and arqubuses play a role in the armies. There's plenty of hand-to-hand combat, infantry enagagements and the best-described cavalry charges in modern epic fantasy.
Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy is excellent but the first big battle doesn't happen until Book 2. However, the main battle in Book 3 is so insanely huge it defies belief and it's worth reading the trilogy to get to that point.
GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire is also worth it for the battles. There's about seven or eight major engagements in the four books published so far and the primary plotline follows a five-sided civil war fighting across many different fronts hundreds of miles apart.
I remember considering The Monarchies of God a while ago, but can't for the life of me remember why I decided to not read them.
But, and this may seem silly, do they use guns in the Kearney books?
I am kind of a fantasy elitist, don't want anything modern in my fantasy books ;). Unless I'm reading urban fantasy of course.
Keep the suggestions coming guys, I'm soaking in ideas here.
Kearney's book is a Epic Renaissance Fantasy, not a Medieval Fantasy. The book opens with the equivalent of the Fall of Constantinople in the late 15th Century and moves on from there, so cannons and arqubuses play a role in the armies. There's plenty of hand-to-hand combat, infantry enagagements and the best-described cavalry charges in modern epic fantasy.
Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy is excellent but the first big battle doesn't happen until Book 2. However, the main battle in Book 3 is so insanely huge it defies belief and it's worth reading the trilogy to get to that point.
GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire is also worth it for the battles. There's about seven or eight major engagements in the four books published so far and the primary plotline follows a five-sided civil war fighting across many different fronts hundreds of miles apart.