Books like The Heroes
12 books with a reading profile close to The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. Outward-looking, growth-minded and escapist; a moderate read.
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The First Law Trilogy
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Logen Ninefingers, a northern warrior weary of battle, journeys south to Join the Union at the request of the magus Bayaz.
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Warbreaker
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Princess Siri is sent to the city of Hallandren to marry the God King, a silent deity who rules through the possession of thousands of Breath units.
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Best Served Cold
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Monza Murcatto, a feared mercenary general known as the Snake of Talins, is betrayed and thrown from a mountain by her employer, Grand Duke Orso.
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 3
Also growth-minded and 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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Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this installment, the focus shifts from the urban Fabletown to "The Farm," an upstate New York sanctuary for non-human fables like the Three Pigs, Shere Khan, and Goldilocks.
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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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Steel and snow
Also outward-looking and escapist · 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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Dawnshard
Also 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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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home
by Joss Whedon
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Picking up where the television series finale ended, this volume follows Buffy Summers as she commands a global organization of over five hundred newly activated Slayers.
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11
To the Blight
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
This volume covers the second half of the narrative originally published as The Eye of the World.
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A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, Book 7)
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In the aftermath of the battle at Dumai’s Wells, Rand al'Thor consolidates his rule over Cairhien and Caemlyn while recovering from his imprisonment by the Aes Sedai.
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