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What fiction should I read next? (sh.itjust.works)
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I have taken almost a year long break from reading fiction to focus on non-fiction. I am ready to start reading fiction again, but after such a long break I have no idea where to start.

Here are some books I have enjoyed in the past:

  • Dragon's Egg (Robert L. Forward)
  • The Damned Trilogy (Alan Dean Foster)
  • Mage Errant series (John Bierce)
  • Cradle series (Will Wight)
  • Gods of Blood and Powder (Brian Mckellan)
  • The Spiral Wars (Joel Shepard)
  • Basically everything Brandon Sanderson has written
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[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 1 points 7 hours ago

The author is a good writer and has great character moments. Someone else mentioned it picking up at book 5, I would say earlier around the middle of book 3. And honestly they aren’t bad from the first book, the author was just new and so it is just immature writing, cliche heavy, etc… but the story’s are good. And if you are an audio book person, the reader is actor James Marsters, and he does a really good job.

He also has another completed series that is fun called Furies of Calderon that grew out of a bet about what makes a good story, that pitted good writing vs novel idea.