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I would be very sceptical of everyone promoting books by Peter V Brett. They are - to say it politely - not particularly good.

• glangdale 5y ago
  This is what I would refer to as an "expansive" list - it also has Salvatore on it. Some people just plain like a lot of F&SF; far be it for me to "yuck their yums". Honestly, if I pick up a glossy new F/SF book the odds are very good that it will be poorly written tripe, or at best, kind of a tolerable way to pass a little time. If your taste runs more towards better written material, a absolutely necessary step is to open the book at a random page or two and read some of the text. If the text looks like a blogpost or the offerings of a barely literate teenager, you dodge a bullet, put it back (unless you like that sort of thing, in which case, rock on). This test has spared me a number of terrible reads - quite a number of books with perfectly nice looking covers, good blurbs and an intriguing "back of the book" premise are written by people whose writing is rudimentary (which is not to say that I need an exotic prose style; I like the 'plain' form too).