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u/MaybeEvilWizard · 1 pointr/Iteration110Cradle

I read [House of Blades] (https://www.amazon.com/House-Blades-Travelers-Gate-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00D52X58Y) the first month it came out. Same for the The Crimson Vault and City of Light.

I however admit that I did not read the Elder Empire series until much later, after I had already started Cradle. I had seen it on kindle while browsing many many times, but it didn't click with me. I very much enjoyed it once I finally started reading it, but I was very hesitant to start it for a couple of reasons I can identify for you.

  • The cover didn't click with me. You've already realized this, since I know that you're reworking the covers for all the books. Maybe this is a personal pet peeve of mine, but I HATE when the focus of a book cover is on a front-view depiction of the protagonist. Covers, like movie posters, aren't there to depict a scene from the book or movie, they're theme pieces. You're supposed to be able to look at them and at a glance realize "Oh! This is an action adventure book!" or "Oh, this story is about spaceships and cool magic!". Of Sea and Shadow and of Shadow and Sea covers featured only the characters on it, with a focus on their facial details (Which I also dislike, mind you. I prefer personal details left up to the reader's imagination). I got the general Pirate vs. Assassin idea from the covers, but that's all I got. If I had realized there were giant, Lovecraftian monsters, I might have picked up the book a lot sooner. Again, the new cover for Of Sea and Shadow does a much better job at this.

  • The other thing that really kept me from diving into the book was that I was afraid of having to pick a side. Pirates vs. ninjas? They're both cool! I can't choose! I'm too indecisive. House of Blades and Cradle both had the promise that these main characters would be powerhouses once the story really got going, but I feared that wouldn't be possible with opposing protagonists. How bad-ass can the main character really be if they're up against another protagonist? I also realized that this isn't really the case once I started reading, but beforehand my assumption was that the protagonist of one story would be the Big Bad of the other, and that there was no way they'd ever come to terms and for one of them to have a good ending the other would necessarily have to be defeated in a big downer ending. I didn't want to risk that kind of letdown. You navigated around this in the story itself, but this was my fear from reading the synopsis multiple times as I clicked on it and passed on it several times.

  • I, and many others, read much faster on a kindle than on paper. The internet has trained us to read quickly when we're online, and so whenever I'm on a digital device I tend to move across the pages much faster. In addition, kindle books are much cheaper than regular books, so instead of savoring that one book I bought for $20, I can buy five books for $3.99. This means I tend not to pay as much attention while reading on kindle as I would if I was reading a hardcover. This is why I went out and bought a physical copy of Oathbringer.
    This puts a little limiter on how complex I want a book to be. If I'm reading fast I don't want to have to remember a dozen different characters and each of their backgrounds and plot lines. The Elder Empire threatened to overwhelm my unprepared mind with lots of POV characters and interweaving plots. It sounded like epic fantasy to me, and don't get me wrong, I love epic fantasy, but I'd read House of Blades, which felt more like Heroic Fantasy or maybe coming of age fantasy, I wasn't sure I wanted to dive into something like that for a fairly new author I'd only read from a different sub-genre. I was somewhat afraid of putting forth the mental effort to read a story I was uncertain I'd like in the first place. I kept putting it off, thinking that I'd read it when I was in the right mood to dive into something more complex plot-wise. Unfortunately, when I'm looking for a book I can really dive into mentally I don't usually look to self-published books. I look for the big traditional names like, Rothfus' Name of the Wind or Oathbringer or A song of Ice and Fire or Malzahan book of the Fallen.

  • I was still hoping for more Travelers Gate. I really liked the Travler’s Gate world. While you wrapped up the plotlines I felt as though the story for House of Blades was like a kid trying to wear a giant’s shoes. The world was so huge, with great world building and limitless potential. How could 1100 pages cover it all? With the scale of the world I just hadn’t expected the story to be only a trilogy. So much material was left unexplored. I may have projected some of that anger onto The Elder Empire, thinking, “Curses! This is the story that stole Traveler’s Gate book four from us!”.

    I apologize for the wall of text. There's a few more points I can think of but I'll stop here before my comment becomes too long for anybody to bother reading. Hopefully it helps you in your future marketing endeavors!
u/FunkyCredo · 3 pointsr/Iteration110Cradle

Mother of Learning is a truly amazing hard fantasy web novel. Very good and very loooong. Should keep you busy for a while

Battlemage is a standalone epic fantasy. Very good

Starship Mage is an impressive sci-fi space opera series with magic. My favorite in the genre

Vigilante series is my second favorite in the same genre

u/koffix · 1 pointr/Iteration110Cradle

Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire series rates a recommendation. High fantasy setting with good world building, dialogue, and a very well constructed main character. It can tend toward the macabre, and the humor often comes off color. However, it's a solid read.

Sebastien De Castell's The Greatcoats finishes this year with its fourth novel. Swashbuckling, adventure sort of book in a fantasy type Europe. Genuinely good character development, excellent action sequences, and hearty doses of comedy to alleviate serious passages.

u/Ragnrok · 18 pointsr/Iteration110Cradle

I actually just started this one yesterday. I'm enjoying it, mostly, but I really can't stand how the MC will walk into a room, and then we get three pages of him explaining how the world works and/or reminiscing about how things happened his first go around, then turning towards the person in the room and going "Hey". Then we get 4 more pages of exposition before the person in the room says "Hey" back.

Though as far as wuxia/LitRPG hybrids go where a powerful makes a wish to mental time travel back to the start of his journey in hopes of preventing the eradication of humanity, I have to give my rec to Towers of Heaven. Similar book, obviously, but leans more towards the LitRPG elements of a LitRPG/wuxia hybrid

u/PatriarchCoreSplit · 9 pointsr/Iteration110Cradle

It's Andrew Rowe! I just bought your new book! Haven't gotten around to leaving an Amazon review yet though. Enjoying it so far!

Edit: The book is Six Sacred Swords. If you've read Sufficiently Advanced Magic, you've already been introduced to the protagonist: Keras Selyrian (The mask-wearing Swordsman Corin meets towards the beginning of the first book).

Edit Edit: I am not Andrew Rowe, Salaris, who I replied to, is Andrew Rowe.

u/Akura_Fury · 2 pointsr/Iteration110Cradle

I started with Shera's side of the story Of Shadow and Sea and immediately switched to Calder's perspective Of Sea and Shadow. I kept alternating between the two points of view to get the whole story before moving forward. Enjoy reading them! They are worth every penny!

u/Pyran · 1 pointr/Iteration110Cradle

From this very subreddit, I found A Thousand Li, by Tao Wong. There are only two books out so far, and the second one is a lot more expository than the first, but I enjoyed it.

I've also started Way of the Immortals, by Harmon Cooper but I literally just started it today and don't have an opinion yet.

u/Salaris · 1 pointr/Iteration110Cradle

If you haven't seen it already, Six Sacred Swords just came out a few days ago. That's a prequel, but if you like the Arcane Ascension stuff, you'll probably enjoy it. It's more adventure focused.

War of Broken Mirrors Book 3 is next, then Arcane Ascension Book 3 after that. I expect Arcane Ascension Book 3 will be out sometime next year.

u/tievel1 · 2 pointsr/Iteration110Cradle

Since Will is apparently a better writer than capitalist, I'll at least provide the link here (since I can't on Facebook):

Unsouled



Soulsmith


Blackflame

u/Lashann · 1 pointr/Iteration110Cradle

Blackflame (Cradle Book 3) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0716GZ8QX/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_h-d4DbMC6NVFH

Lol cover pic is somewhat misleading.
I like this better too

u/JM-SL · 5 pointsr/Iteration110Cradle

The Crimson Queen was a marvellous reading. I highly recommend it.

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Sorry for my english.