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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 840975" data-attributes="member: 8123">Well, I didn't like King Rat either, even though I thought it was well written.  I mean, I like gritty fantasy, but King Rat wasn't just gritty, it was grimy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Since my last post I was incredibly lucky and found a cheap copy of Glen Cook's best SF novel, The Dragon Never Sleeps.  Complex book - like certain other authors like Erikson, he pretty much throws the reader into things - but really good.  And now I've started to re-read The Tower of Fear, which is a very dark standalone fantasy novel by Cook.  Sort of Arabian fantasy, with the evil sorcerer-tyrant of a city locked in permanent magical stasis, along with his citadel, while the rest of the city is under the occupation of a foreign power, there's a not-very-nice resistance movement, and a servant of the tyrant is making kids disappear, trying to find the one that will let him free his master.</blockquote>