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Why is it so based?

shoutout to the anon that recommended this, it was exactly what i was looking for

medieval military campaigns
magic
knights
mercinaries
good bunch of pov's, villains too
romance
interesting world
well written
quite dark at times

really recommend it to anyone trying to scratch that malazan/tbc itch

>>20171875
Maybe the Traitor Son Cycle? I wasn't the biggest fan, but it's heavily influenced by Arthurian legends.

Good series. Cool magic and written by someone who actually knows his ass from his elbow when it comes to a pseudo historical setting.

How is this.

Is this any good? Looking for a standalone fantasy book that's less about court intrigue and more about man vs. monsters, demons, or beasts. If The Red Knight isn't that, or if it's shit, anyone got any recs?

Is this really any good?

>>13856602
The Red Knight

Why is this book so unpopular here again?

Rape, you say?

You guys said this book sucked and yet I don't think it did, what gives?

The Red Knight is pretty good

Anyone read this? Seems like every female character has at one point talked about how superior their gender is.

Aside from that its decent.

Has anyone read the traitor son cycle, what did you think of it?

I like the first book, the second one was mostly filler, but I'm a byzantaboo so I liked it. The 3rd one seemed like it couldn't go two lines without a female character talking about superior their gender was.

>>7986650
The Red Knight series. Set in fantasy counterpart England heavily featuring Fae and other shit like that.

Read the first two books of this recently. They're not bad, a lot of the characters are really likeable and all. Unfortunately towards the end of the second book several major characters are infected with extreme stupidity. It's implied they are being affected by magic or something, but reading about otherwise solid characters doing extremely stupid things for apparently no reason never goes down well.

Has anybody here read "The Red Knight" by Miles Cameron?

It's the first book of a cycle and I've enjoyed it so much that I read the 2nd book despite:

>uncharismatic and arrogant as fuck main character
>initially very awkward/weird magic system
>too many POVs that only later on begin to make sense as the story unfolds

It's classical military fantasy that follows (amongst others) the pursuit of a medieval mercenary company that is hired to defend a monastery against the agressive creatures of "the wild" (magical wilderness full of spoopy dragons and shit). Set in the fictional country of Alba, this is clearly england. From GALLE (France), a group of uber powered mega paladins travel to Albia to aid the King in trade for political favors and/or treachery. The world is full of bible references, monsters, dragons, dragonslayers, knights, assassins, poor fucking peasants and the usualy medieval shit.

I didn't like it at first beause I thought the main character was an edgy Mary Sue type of hero, but that impression fades eventually when you're being presented with his more human side and his personal flaws.
What is also interesting is that the huge battles and conflicts (in both books, so far) are always looked at from different angles, you get POVs of the "good" guys but you get at least as many POVs of the "bad guys". Makes me wonder if there is truly one protagonist or 7 or 8.

Anyway, I like it.
The author also has a major hardon for medieval armor, weaponry, siege engines, tactics and letting horses die.


What surprised me the most is that the Author is a 50yr old ex navy guy from the US... my first guess was 25yr old british fantasy writer.

>>6599810

shan't

Read this recently, was pretty good. Not really Epic Fantasy, it's almost Historical Fantasy, all things considered. The writer seriously needs to work some more exposition in though, normally it'd be the opposite, but I don't think the main character even had the colour of his hair mentioned until near the end of the book, and most side characters aren't given descriptions beyond their size and age.

I like the way it handles the political machinations though. Instead of the Game of thrones style plot within a plot, hand rubbing villain schemes, you're only overtly presented with the outcomes of the schemes, not who they came from or what their purpose was, but if you pay attention, you can figure out who did what and why. It's a nice change.