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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 4449896" data-attributes="member: 870">Has anyone else read Brian Ruckley? Fairly new author, I guess, but I recently gave the first two books in his Godless World series a go (Winterbirth, Bloodheir, and the third is forthcoming). I quite enjoyed it - seemed a good blend of political intrigue with a side of adventuring of a sort. Its building towards an epic tale of ancient magics reawakening in the world, but under the unintended cover of exiled nobles attempting to reclaim their lost lands.Very Martin-esque as my friends use the word - there's a very real sense of tension for his characters, because he does kill off several through the books - some secondary, but several are as close to main characters as you can get. Ruckley does try for more than one-dimensional characters, and arguably the three most primary characters are decently fleshed out, although a few do sneak their way in (but those are most secondary, or even tertiary, characters).</blockquote>