Another suggest me a book thread (but this one is different)

[Enoch26sf]

I am not too sure if everyone is familiar with the Liveship Trader series by Robin Hobbs but I just finished her 3 books and like that style. I am sort of new to her style of books and was looking for something similar.

One of the issues I have is that I am very sensitive, especially to violence and characters misfortunes.

Are there any books out there that are mostly upbeat that are similar in genre to the Liveship Trader series?

 

[Mark]

What else have you read that fits your criteria?

 

[Enoch26sf]

nothing really. i'm newer to the genre even tho i've been into fantasy for a long time with video games and movie/tv shows

 

[Mark]

Have you read all of her books yet?

Robin Hobb's Home

 

[Enoch26sf]

not yet. I don't like darkness in a book. especially a dark protaganist like an assassin.


btw, I found the Obsidian series at Borders, is it any good?

 

[drothgery]

Hmm... protagonist goes through hell, unconventional magic systems, really well-crafted prose...

Maybe Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion books ( The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, The Hallowed Hunt ), C. S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy (Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, Crown of Shadows), or Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books?

 

[Rackhir]

Hmm... protagonist goes through hell.

I haven't read the books, the OP is referencing, but this would indicate that this is the opposite of what the OP is looking for.

One of the issues I have is that I am very sensitive, especially to violence and characters misfortunes.

Are there any books out there that are mostly upbeat that are similar in genre to the Liveship Trader series?

I'd pick up some Terry Pratchett (Diskworld) and Robert Lynn Asprin's "Myth-Adventures" series.

Both are very funny and have very little in the way of real violence or bad things happening. Even when people die in Diskworld, it's usually very, very funny.

 

[drothgery]

I haven't read the books, the OP is referencing, but this would indicate that this is the opposite of what the OP is looking for.

That's why I was a bit confused. If you don't like 'dark' stories, the Liveship Traders books seem like a strange series to like. So my suggestions were going for 'good' protagonists that got stuck in some really nasty situations, but managed to come out of it okay.

I mean, Brust's Vlad Taltos books and Hobb's Assassin / Tawny Man trilogies both have an assassin as the main character, but the latter are much, much darker, whereas most of the former aren't dark at all and are usually somewhat funny; they're certainly a lot more light-hearted than the Liveship Traders books.

 

[Enoch26sf]

The liveship trader series was actually pretty upbeat imo, which I assume is unusual for Hobbs due to her other books. The protagonists in the liveship trader really went through a lot of hardships but it was clear black and white for the most part on where they stood, there was a happy ending, and nothing really terrible happened to anyone except the bad guy.

 

[drothgery]

Althea was raped. The youngest daughter nearly starved to death. Just for a start.