Dragonlance Chronicles Ii: Dragon of Winter Nights (Dragonlance Series)

✒✒Fantasy Recommendation No. 4: Excellent Works Exhibition B✒✒ 🍻 Curt Benjamin, Legend of the Seven Sons: Benjamin did something a little different: he created an epic fantasy (Chinese mythology) setting based in Asia. A very good series, a bit like Robert Jordan's Chinese stories (of course not as thick). 🍻 Stephen King's "The Dark Tower": Weaved together many different genres, fantasy, a little sci-fi, horror, and did it so successfully. What is "The Dark Tower" like? Think of the Wild West and imagine a world that announces the apocalypse. Combine the two and you get The Dark Tower. This book has a bit of a "Louis Namor" setting and takes place in a dark future fantasy world. 🍻 Michael West, Sword of the Sun: Epic fantasy in the tradition of Robert Jordan. The characterization is good, of course at the expense of the story's speed. You can love or hate the way West writes. If you're the kind of person who prefers characters over speed, you'll probably enjoy West's epic saga. His books are unique and worth reading (again, you have to be able to digest his verbose writing style). 🍻 Laura Resnico "Born to Legend," "Lady of Destruction" and "The White Dragon": Outstanding characterization. Many of her characters are shrouded in gray shadows, and the plot is engaging, barreling along with the speed and intensity of a freight train after the first few chapters. This series is unique enough to be completely different from a lot of "epic clones", and the character description is also one of the best in fantasy literature. If you are interested in high-intensity ride action and comprehensive and profound characterization, you can't miss it. 🍻 Ann Bishop's Black Diamond Trilogy: Bishop takes the archetypes of Heaven and Hell and inverts them: Satan is the "good" guy, and Hell is the same. The book has a large cast of characters and a well-drawn heroine. Warning: These books are very explicit about sex, as rape, torture, and violence are the basis of Bishop's world. 🍻 Juliet Marile's "Seven Waters" trilogy & "Wolfskin": Very, very good writing, changing Celtic fantasy. Her books feature a large cast of female protagonists. There is a clear romantic slant to these books. But what book isn't? "Wolfskin" is another masterpiece by Marile, about the Celts and ancient Norse people, but with magic added to it. Unlike the "Seven Waters" trilogy, the characters in "Wolfskin" are not black and white. At the same time, "Wolfskin" has a sequel "The Mask of the Fox".