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Fun Fantasy series with immense worldbuilding and great characters? (lemm.ee)
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I want to read a recent(ish) fun fantasy series with an eighteen year-old male protagonist, that has immense worldbuilding and greatly-written characters. Any suggestions?

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago

Stormlight archives fits everything except protagonist. It has multiple protagonists, not just one. Some of the protagonists are indeed male and around that age.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wheel of Time doesn't really fit "recent," but still fantastic.

    Way of Kings is great. Codex Alera is a fun read as well

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Cradle series, by Will Wight. Fast paced, fun. Started on book one and could not stop myself from reading all the way to the end!

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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    People need to stop recommending Pat Rothfuss. His stuff is awesome but he'll never be done it and as such were just adding more people to this waiting room of misery. Books that are equally excellent AND the author delivers:

    • The First Law Trilogy
    • Stormlight Archives
    • Codex Alera
    • Assassins Apprentice
    • Red Rising (not fantasy but an amazing SciFi)

    First Law and Red Rising are my top favourites!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I’ve been hard avoiding Kingkiller because I don’t want to become invested in what sounds like a truly spectacular first couple of books.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They are really good but they're not earth-shattering, you MUST read these.

    If I knew then what I know now I would never have read them until the 3rd book is out.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well, I was promised that the 3rd book will be out. The description said that Rothfuss had already completed the trilogy and its all in the matter of editing, so I was confident going in thinking the chance of a complete series in the next few years is high. I would never imagined that he would go George RR Martin's route, even Martin had wrote five books in the series.

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