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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3201710" data-attributes="member: 8447">Okay, I've been mulling this for a day because I wanted to get the right recommendations for you.&nbsp; Now these might be out of bounds in certain ways, but I so respect your likes and dislikes list that I hope you will give it a chance.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Two trilogies first.Storm Constantine's Magravandias Chronicles is wonderful, with a feel almost like Tanith Lee writing about Middle Earth.&nbsp; The books are Sea Dragon's Heir, The Crown of Silence, and The Way of Light -- three books from three different points of view, thus I don't feel like it is padded.&nbsp; You might find it so, but I think you would enjoy them.K.J. Parker's Fencer Trilogy is deep, technical, somewhat depressing, but so deeply written that it is hard to put them down.&nbsp; Imagine a combination of a treatise on siege warfare, characters from Hamlet, and mysteries that only slowly unravel in the third book.&nbsp; Again, while it is a trilogy, I do not feel that the books are padded in any way.&nbsp; You will find the characters and the world intriguing; it is also sad in the same way that Lions of al-Rassan is sad.Finally, and this is a realy stretch as you said &quot;no horror&quot;, I strongly suggest you try one of Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins books (beginning with Wine of Angels).&nbsp; These books are only nominally &quot;horror&quot;; they are more like studies of potential psychic phenomena, but every experience can be potentially explained away -- no monsters moaning about how they wish to be human, no vast gorey scenes.&nbsp; The Rev. Merrily Watkins, her daughter Jane, and Gomer Perry Plant Hire will be as real of characters as Jilly Coppercorn.&nbsp; While you will not always agree with what the characters are planning to do, you utterly understand why they are doing it -- something deep inside their own minds.&nbsp; The books, while a series, do not really require that you read the whole group or even necessarily in order.&nbsp; He also has several stand-alone books, such as The Chalice.&nbsp; In any case, enjoy your reading!&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 3201710, member: 8447"] Okay, I've been mulling this for a day because I wanted to get the right recommendations for you. Now these might be out of bounds in certain ways, but I so respect your likes and dislikes list that I hope you will give it a chance. :) Two trilogies first. Storm Constantine's [I]Magravandias Chronicles[/I] is wonderful, with a feel almost like Tanith Lee writing about Middle Earth. The books are [I]Sea Dragon's Heir[/I], [I]The Crown of Silence[/I], and [I]The Way of Light[/I] -- three books from three different points of view, thus I don't feel like it is padded. You [I]might[/I] find it so, but I think you would enjoy them. K.J. Parker's [I]Fencer Trilogy[/I] is deep, technical, somewhat depressing, but so deeply written that it is hard to put them down. Imagine a combination of a treatise on siege warfare, characters from Hamlet, and mysteries that only slowly unravel in the third book. Again, while it is a trilogy, I do not feel that the books are padded in any way. You will find the characters and the world intriguing; it is also sad in the same way that [I]Lions of al-Rassan[/I] is sad. Finally, and this is a realy stretch as you said "no horror", I strongly suggest you try one of Phil Rickman's [I]Merrily Watkins[/I] books (beginning with [I]Wine of Angels[/I]). These books are only nominally "horror"; they are more like studies of potential psychic phenomena, but every experience can be potentially explained away -- no monsters moaning about how they wish to be human, no vast gorey scenes. The Rev. Merrily Watkins, her daughter Jane, and Gomer Perry Plant Hire will be as real of characters as Jilly Coppercorn. While you will not always agree with what the characters are planning to do, you utterly understand [I]why[/I] they are doing it -- something deep inside their own minds. The books, while a series, do not really require that you read the whole group or even necessarily in order. He also has several stand-alone books, such as [I]The Chalice[/I]. In any case, enjoy your reading! :) [/QUOTE]

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