r/polls • u/Linorelai • 20h ago
🤔 Decide for Me What series should I read next, after Cosmere and The Wheel of Time?
After Stormlight Archive and the Wheel of Time
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u/AgedAncientAge 20h ago
I’m finishing the cosmere now. I’m planning on going to something lighter for a break. Maybe trying Dungeon Crawler Carl and then Red Rising.
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u/Linorelai 20h ago
Oh, I've been seeing Dungeon Crawler Carl mentioned a lot lately
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u/AgedAncientAge 20h ago
I’ve heard friends praise it so I’m going to give it a try.
I normally do audio books on my work commute. I have 32hrs of wind and truth left.
The first three books of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series aren’t 32hrs combined.
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u/SayNoToBrooms 20h ago
The Dark Tower, by a long shot. I was a young kid when my dad was reading the series. The man was a police officer in one of the most crime and violence ridden cities in my state. The Dark Tower had him hooked and concerned like nothing else I’ve seen from him, even a week after 9/11, when he first came back home from being a first responder to the attacks in downtown Manhattan
I was in prison when he got me set up with the entire series. I’d call him everyday to talk about the books, to the point where I even bought a couple phone cards so that he wouldn’t need to pay good money to hear me rave about these books
In my opinion, the ending is the best it could’ve been. In my dad’s, he felt robbed of the time it took to read 8 great novels. Or so he says, at least. Because if he really believed it, why’d he send me the series as a release from the hell I was in at the time?
The man knew what he was doing. I’d love to curse Stephen King for the ending as well, but it was better than I could’ve imagined. Only took me like 8 weeks of sitting in my cell to come to the conclusion, but I hold the fact true over a decade later now
Read them. They may not be the best series on your list, but it’s only because I don’t know of the others. But if you want an 8 book world wind series, The Dark Tower will absolutely not let you down
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u/am_I_still_banned 20h ago
The only two of these I've read are First Law and Malazan. I made it through about 2.5 Malazan books before giving up on it. If you think either WoT or the cosmere are intricate or complicated, Malazan is on an entire different level. It took me until the end of the first book to understand what plot points were even going on and who the main characters were. And then I started book 2 and it was a completely different cast of characters with an unrelated plot. I couldn't follow anything
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u/Linorelai 20h ago edited 20h ago
Thank you for your input! And the First law?
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u/am_I_still_banned 19h ago
Its a very different tone and feel to WoT or Sanderson's stuff, but it was good. The characters are darker and they all have negative/annoying traits, so it was difficult to latch onto any of them as a character I really liked. It's also not nearly as epic of a scope/scale as WoT or Stormlight, but it was a nice self-contained trilogy
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u/Thegamblr 20h ago
Different person, but I loved The First Law! The characters are just fantastic!
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u/CoffeeExtraCream 20h ago
The twilight reign series by Tom Lloyd. First book is called the stormcaller.
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u/Linorelai 20h ago
Thank you. Haven't heard of it
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u/CoffeeExtraCream 20h ago
It is some of the best and most detailed world building I have read outside of Tolkien.
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u/cirelia2 1h ago
First law is legitimately the reason i got into reading again those books are amazing
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u/Kebab-Destroyer 20h ago
The Malazan Book of the Fallen is the best fantasy I've ever read. I still think about it often and it's been at least 10 years since I put it down.
It's brutal, innovative, and miles deep.
I think I might read it again.
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u/QuickPirate36 20h ago
You still have to read the cosmere and the wheel of time before you read this? Go ahead and remake this poll on like a year when you're done with all that lol