The rest of the Ender's Game books are bleh, go read the Ender's Shadow series instead.
Do you like Urban Fantasy and its ilk?
Do you like Lovecraftian horrors Not Of This World?
Do you have $0.99?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above then do I have the book for you (ignore the shitty cover art):
Child of Fire is about a man named Ray Lilly and his boss, Annalise Powliss. Annalise is a mage, and a high ranking member of the mysterious Twenty Palace Society. Ray, on the other hand, is a "wooden man", and his job is to act as a decoy while Annalise does her fire and brimstone thing. Together, they hunt down rogue mages who summon extradimensional horrors for their own selfish ends. Horrors which, if left unchecked, can easily devour all sentient life on earth.
Annalise also wants to kill Ray for something he once did, which does not make their job any easier.
Child of Fire is, even by urban fantasy standards, pretty dark. People die, they don't get better later on. It's about sacrifices, what people are willing to do for power and what the heroes have to do to stop them. And it's about trust, with all the various emotional trappings that come with that kind of plotline. This book is also niche, so niche that it doesn't even have a tropes page despite being 3 years old.
Alternatively, you can think of this as Harry Dresden in the Lakeside setting from American Gods. You can buy the ebook from Amazon for a measily $0.99, provided you have/are willing to use their Kindle for PC app.
Just got my hands on this:
The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks.
Might have to put down my current read to give it a shot.
Im about halfway through and loving every single page of it.
Based on going back and looking at old gaf threads, I decided to give this a shot. I think I'm nearing the end of the first story (the priest). This book was harder than usual to get into, but I'm starting to dig it now that there is finally something interesting going on.
I don't know if I would consider this a top sci-fi novel, but I will withhold my judgement until I finish it.
You almost made me cry.
This is one of my favorite urban fantasy series, I don't remember how I ended reading this, the first book, but I tought it was very good, even if it keeps referencing the past and doesn't explain much about it, But then the second book came out and then the third, and the relationship between Ray and Annalise keeps getting better and stronger and then I found out that the series has been cancelled indefinetly due to poor sales but the author is self-publishing a prequel that turns out to explain a lot of Ray's past and how he meet Annalise and the origin of the villain and you are left waiting for more knowing that it may never come.
Please, buy this book. I really want this series to continue.
Finishd Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It was great. Loved the characters and Kay's prose was a pleasure to read. Now starting:
Interesting since like the second paragraph. The premise is great. Set on post-apocalyptic Earth, but instead of people living in the usual crumbled buildings in the middle of a scorched desert or something, they've all settled in a pair of giant, rundown, and damp submarines ("citysubs" as they call them).
