yeah this one is a bit less newbie-friendly, but overall I think it can be done. The mysterious magic stuff isn't that different from the stuff at the end of Tress. The biggest issues are all the Stormlight references that never get explained because.

I never saw this post, sorry. Yes, totally within the rules :)

Just finished the Mage Errant series and now I am reading Song of Silver Flame like Night. Mage Errant was light and fun, this new one feels more involved, but the prose is beautiful and I am enjoying it so far a lot.

Oh Reaper was really nice, you have some great stuff coming up in the next books. I finished Cradle this summer and it was SO good. Very satisfying finish.

I'm still on my first go-through of Discworld. I've read City Watch, a few standalones and am on the Witches books now. Next up is Maskerade.

If you decide to we can make one for you here and hand it over to you to mod/lead :) A gaming community would be a great addition.

We are still pretty new, but we're trying :D

Murderbot is great! Nowhere near as dark as some books I've read, but yeah they do definitely have LGBT rep in them!

Any reason in particular you're not reading the last book?

I've definitely heard First Law is both grimdark and good. I have it on my TBR.

if you're not opposed to REALLY dark, Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire trilogy (starts with Prince of Thorns) is very good. You kinda have to push through hating theMC for the first part of the first book but it's totally worth it.

Also the Poppy War trilogy by RF Kuang is excellent.

Also, I will never pass up the chance to recommend Malazan Book of the Fallen.

For me "dark" fantasy aka "grimdark" is about darker themes, harsher language, and more realistic depictions of awful situations being in the forefront of what is happening (as opposed to just existing in the background). The book should be gritty and grim and feel hopeless and even victories should pyrrhic most of the time.

you have to add the word spoiler after the first three dots.

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Hi, cute comic! Would you mind editing your title to include the spoiler scope? Just a tag like [RoW] would be enough :)