Patrician Fantasy?

LOTR + The Silmarillion

The Bible

>>8920011
the bible 2: mad mohammed

>>8919928
I really liked his books, it's just that in each one he had some writing quirk that really pissed me off.

Throughout the First Law trilogy he kept doing that thing where he'd note in the narration or a character's internal monologue that "if this was one of those storybooks, then X, Y, and Z would happen. But this isn't one of those storybooks!". It's like for fuck's sake, we get it Abercrombie, you're writing a deconstruction of generic epic fantasy series. Your Gandalf analog is evil, your Proud Warrior Race guy isn't particularly proud of being a warrior and would quite like to do something other than fight wars if he was any good at it, and torturer turned evil chancellor is actually quite sympathetic in a lot of ways. You don't have to pause and tell us when you're subverting a trope; don't write down to us, shit.

Then in Best Served Cold he kept doing that Ironic Echo thing where a character would say a phrase, and then in the next scene another character would be saying the same verbatim phrase but with a different meaning in a different context. It would have seemed clever if he did it two, three times, but if I recall he did it 11 times. That drove it into the ground.

Then in The Heroes Gorst's constant Kevin-Nealon-Subliminal-Man bullshit in his internal speech got real old, real fast.

Don't remember what irked me in The Red Country, but it was no doubt something.

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>>8919928

Cavern of Black Ice.
Best fantasy I've read in a long time.

>>8919928
Way of Kings seems right up your alley OP.