Books like Best Served Cold
12 books with a reading profile close to Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. Outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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Steel and snow
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Published as the first half of the third volume in the series, Steel and Snow follows the escalating civil war across Westeros after the Battle of the Blackwater.
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Belgarath the Sorcerer
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
This prequel memoir follows the life of Belgarath, the first disciple of the God Aldur, spanning seven thousand years of history in the world of the Belgariad.
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New Spring (The Wheel of Time, Book 0)
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set twenty years before the main sequence begins, the narrative focuses on Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche as they transition from Accepted to full Aes Sedai in the White Tower.
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Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Arcanum Unbounded compiles stories and novellas set within the Cosmere, a shared universe where various planets host unique magical systems.
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Dawnshard
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Rysn Ftori, a merchant owner who lost the use of her legs, accepts a dangerous naval commission to sail to the hidden island of Akinah.
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Fool
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Pocket, the foul-mouthed court jester to King Lear, attempts to prevent the kingdom of Britain from collapsing into bloody chaos.
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Red Country
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Shy South lives a quiet life on a frontier farm until raiders burn her home and kidnap her younger siblings.
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The Heroes
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set over three bloody days, the story centers on a single battle for a nondescript hill in the North.
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 3
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Volume three picks up in the middle of the battle for Trost, where cadets of the 104th training corps fight Titans trying to break through the walls of the district.
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Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this third collection, the exiled community of Fabletown faces internal scandals and external threats.
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THE DUNGEON ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Carl and Princess Donut enter the third floor of the intergalactic crawl, navigating a lethal subterranean rail system known as the Iron Tangle.
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A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set nearly a century before the events of the Iron Throne succession struggle, this collection follows the travels of a towering, low-born hedge knight named Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminutive squire, Egg.
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