Looking for a or few books I never actually found ever besides Game Of Thrones but it was very far from ideal. Here are all I am looking for and yes, maybe its just a unicorn that does not exist. I’ll try to search for it anyway.
1. Dark Medieval / fantasy
2. As much adult contents as it would have been during medieval time in terms of pretty much everything violence and sex etc. (explicit without falling into the p\*\*\* )
3. Love story but without falling into some cheesy stuff
4. Fast pace
5. Rogue and/or Viking like characters with borderline morals
6. Not one but few “main” characters
7. all the stuff you could imagine from a medieval era (violent battles, brutal fights, tough decisions taken that would make your granny jumps, NotTooRomanticF\*Scenes, betrayals, fight for power, anyway, you see what I mean I suppose)
8. great plot around power / war / kingdom / women all mixed would even be the best ahah
9. straight ! Someone advised me a book and I ended up reading gay sex scene. No pb with that but this is absolutely not what I want to read so better for me to specify (if there is like one scene that I can easily spot and skip, thats ok tho)
10. only stuff I’d like to avoid is any kind of violence against kids / animals (well they can eat a horse after fighting on a battle field but well, Im a woman, animal cruelty is not my thing)
I love game of thrones thats certain but I just dislike very freaking much the slow pace within the books. I dont want to read 2 pages of how the table is dressed or 30 lines of how the beef is cooked or smell. I get some people needs a lot of “decor” but thanks G R R M, I learn because of GoT how to hate it lol.
by krakenflag
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Following.
Prince of Nothing series maybe? It is arguably more messed up than Game of Thrones when it comes to sex and at a higher magic level that Game of Thrones and with a few more overpowered characters but overall quite similar in vibes.
In my opinion Bakker does battle scenes better, but Martin does believable characters better.
Its not fantasy and is set in a very early medieval period but Gary Jenning’s novel Raptor fits a lot of your requirements. 2 of his other novels Aztec and The Journeyer fit in some ways as well. They are all excellent.