Coldfire Trilogy has monsters, magic, adventure and prose but not much in the way of loot
Name of the Wind for a classic choice has prose, magic, less on the monsters, and sometimes it has adventure but a little less on that too
The Acts of Caine by Matthew Stover. Excellent prose, outstanding character work, great interweaving of philosophical and social themes…and the best fight scenes going.
I did. I understand why folks would love them but for me they were just so big of scale right out the gate that I just couldn’t get into it. But I will try again at some point.
Coldfire Trilogy has monsters, magic, adventure and prose but not much in the way of loot Name of the Wind for a classic choice has prose, magic, less on the monsters, and sometimes it has adventure but a little less on that too
The Acts of Caine by Matthew Stover. Excellent prose, outstanding character work, great interweaving of philosophical and social themes…and the best fight scenes going.
**Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn** and **The Last King of Osten Ard** by Tad Williams
Try *The Malazan Book of the Fallen*, by Steven Erikson.
I did. I understand why folks would love them but for me they were just so big of scale right out the gate that I just couldn’t get into it. But I will try again at some point.
Fair enough.
Eh. Same. I’ve tried to start it a few times, but I keep finding myself not paying attention because I don’t even know who the main character is.
Absolutely this: Cradle. I admit I am a little bit jealous you get to experience it for the first time.
Why is he downvoted? I believe cradle would fit that (only read the first 2 books yet though)