What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[Valarya]

These beings just finished reading the fourth book of the wheel of time. Quite entertaining end to it.

Book 4 was a great book... with the next (5) being even better. Most people see the next few (6, 7, 8) as extremely slow, but I liked them. The more detail in a world, the happier I am - which is why I love huge series, typically. And I didn't mind all the politics of Tar Valon.

P.S. Book 9 was my favorite book.

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I just finished the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. The first half of the first book was extremely slow, and I had no idea where it was going, but then it picked right up. I rarely put the books down after that, and towards the last half of the last book I felt Abercrombie piled all the threads of the story up nicely and then set them on f--king fire. The last chapter was titled 'The Beginning' and I couldn't help feel that the characters were all in the same exact places as they were when the story began. Quite different, that. [/u]

Abercrombie is a very brutal author, where the world is gritty, realistic, almost noir-fantasy. Characters you like die. Characters you hate have good shit happen to them. Martin-esque, if you will. The ending left a very strange taste in my mouth, but I've grown to see the brilliance of it.

I give it a #recommend.