Another bad people/creatures/whatever doing bad stuff with magic, while Dresden stops them, while getting completely beat up book. I don't mean that as a bad thing though. That's why I read the books!

This had some interesting world-building stuff, with some new stuff in over-arching story. Also read the short story that takes place after the book (in the anthology Side Jobs), an interesting look at the relationship between Harry and Murphy.

Currently reading Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 of second era of Mistborn. Just started it, so don't have much to say about it yet.

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[–] pointnull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. I'm a fairly new reader and never been much into fantasy. I read the Harry Potter series and the first mistborn novel (The 2nd mistborn novels was really boring.) and assumed that all fantasy novels are the same with the chosen one trope and all. Didn't read anything fantasy for over a year and then I was recommended this banger by one of my friends. I love this book so much. I've never read anything close to this.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

The Blade Itself is pretty good. Grimdark, but good. Fantasy is a very varied genre, and there's lots of grimdark these days. There are also tons of other sub-genre, like The Dresden Files which are kind of noir detective, at least in the start. There are police procedural. There are Tolkien-ish epic fantasy, and so on.