{"id":4300,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/if-youve-read-the-conquerors-shadow\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:26:10","slug":"if-youve-read-the-conquerors-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4300","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;ve read The Conqueror&#8217;s Shadow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and\/or <em>The Warlord&#8217;s Legacy<\/em>, and assuming you enjoyed one, the other, or both, I have an odd question for you.<\/p>\n<p>What other books\/authors do they remind you of? In other words, if I wanted to read a fantasy novel with a very similar combination of darkness and action and humor, roughly the same degree of gritty without being <em>grim<\/em>, what titles would you recommend?<\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t worry about going back and looking at the books\/authors I&#8217;ve said inspired me in the past. I&#8217;d rather get the full range of people&#8217;s opinions, even if it means getting some recommendations I&#8217;ve already read.)<\/p>\n<p>I am, in this case, looking specifically for <em>fantasy<\/em> (of a traditional sort, be it epic or sword-and-sorcery). If you want to <em>also<\/em> recommend urban\/contemporary fantasy, sci-fi, or horror, that&#8217;s cool, but please do so in <em>addition<\/em> to traditional fantasy recs, not in lieu of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and\/or The Warlord&#8217;s Legacy, and assuming you enjoyed one, the other, or both, I have an odd question for you. What other books\/authors do they remind you of? In other words, if I wanted to read a fantasy novel with a very similar combination of darkness and action and humor, roughly the same degree of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}