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| Height | 6.84 Inches |
| Length | 4.24 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | March 1987 |
| Weight | 0.24912235606 Pounds |
| Width | 0.68 Inches |
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If you like villain protagonists, the Vlad Taltos by Steven Brust series might be up your alley. The protagonist is an assassin who has access to multiple types of sorcery, magical items, and epic level allies who are equally or more overpowered. In specific, one of the main "allies" - Sethra Lavode - is an overpowered character that gets directly involved in some of the books. Morollan, a swordsman/sorcerer that owns a flying castle, probably counts, too. The first book is Jhereg.
If you like anime-style combat and character progression, I'd recommend Will Wight's Traveler's Gate Trilogy. There are lots of high powered "legendary" figures that get involved directly, especially in the second and third books. The first book is House of Blades.
Several characters in the Stormlight Archives are very quickly getting into overpowered territory, and only two of the ten projected books are out. Like most of Sanderson's work, the Stormlight Archives has epic action scenes and a fantastic magic system. This may not be quite as directly what you're looking for - it has very powerful characters, but you only get a little bit of the perspective of the puppet masters. The first book is The Way of Kings.
Maybe the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman?
The first book, The Golden Compass, was made into a film.
Also, the Lord of the Rings books?
My favorite fantasy author is Steven Brust, though. Highly recommend reading Jhereg to see if you like the world. It's a relatively quick read, compared to the tomes that more and more fantasy novels seem to be nowadays.
Also, Neal Stephenson.
Um.... I honestly don't know? I have to confess I read them out of my dad's books and he has physical copies. I'm actually several books behind at this point too ^^;
Clicking the link from Goodreads to Amazon got me the German Language paperback, which had a link on it to this: https://www.amazon.com/Jhereg-Steven-Brust/dp/0441385540
If you're looking for Ebooks sorry I have no idea. If you're fine with physical books and just don't want to store them you could check your local library.
Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels, also To Reign in Hell a marvelous novel about the revolt in heaven.
I haven't read any Sanderson, but based on your summary, perhaps the Jhereg series? Assassins, convoluted plots, lots going on behind the scenes, and as the series goes on it gets deeper and we find out why.
You might also like the Shannara series. Elfstones, the second book, in particular seems like it'd be a good fit.
Give a lesser known writer a try and see if you like him: Steven Brust. He has a fantasy series that's truly brilliant, for a number of reasons. His characters have a lot of depth and endearing tendencies, he's got a wicked sense of humor and colors his writing with dark moments of self reflection, and his creativity in a field overrun with mediocrity is to be appreciated.
Try Jhereg and see what you think. Another thing that makes this series so good is that he intentionally wrote it out of order to encourage people to read whatever volume they happen to find, but this one as the first really outlines the world richly.