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I just finished this book and really loved this story! It’s pretty rare for me to shed a tear over a book but this one did it. It is definitely a sci-fi book and I see his other book The Spear That Cuts Through Water is fantasy.

Wondering if anyone has read them both and did you like Spear as much as The Vanished Birds?

As a Red Rising/Pierce Brown fanatic (I have re-read the series each time a new book has come out), I am wondering who to try next? Gwynn, Abercrombie or Sanderson or someone else entirely and what series?

What I love about Red Rising is really the characters, and the relationships they are very real, very flawed yet trying to do the right thing and achieve a better world though mess it up a lot. I also like the pacing which is fast, the surprises, the all is won, all is lost (and over and over again), the betrayals, the come backs. I don’t love the iron rain sequences (though thats probably my husband favorite parts). The plot and political intrigue I also like.

I see those three authors recommended here all the time so would you recommend one over the other or someone else entirely?

Other books I have loved recently:
Blood over Bright Haven by ML Wang
Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil and the Vicious series by V.E. Schwab (really anything by her)
Alchemised by SenLin Yu
The Poet Empress by Shen Tau

Also loved The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare The Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
and yea ACOTAR AND TOG by Sarah J Maas. I know I know romance heavy. Not my usual trope.

I also love Blake Crouch and multi-dimension books, more sci-fi I guess.