Books like Sharp Ends
Short stories set in the world of the First Law, about con artists, soldiers and killers, from before the trilogy to after it, each one a little nastier than the last.
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The Blade Itself
A barbarian, a torturer, and a nobleman are drawn into a war they don't understand, in a grimdark world where nobody is the hero.
The Black Company
The annalist of a hard-bitten mercenary company records the year his brothers-in-arms took a contract with a sorceress-empress and found themselves fighting for the wrong side.
A Little Hatred
The industrial revolution comes to a grimdark fantasy world, and with it, class war, populism, and familiar human cruelty.
The Pariah
Alwyn, raised among the outlaws of the Shavine Forest, is captured after his band is ambushed and sent to the mines, where he learns to read and write, and the road that follows leads him to Lady Evadine Courlain, a captain whose visions speak of a coming apocalypse.
Prince of Thorns
A tortured prince fights his way to the throne through a grimdark medieval world where cruelty is the only currency and survival is the only virtue.
The Last Wish
Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who hunts monsters for pay, rests at a temple of the goddess Melitele after a hard fight and remembers the jobs that brought him there.
A Game of Thrones
As summer ends in the Seven Kingdoms, the noble houses scheme for the Iron Throne while an exiled princess gathers dragons and something ancient stirs beyond the Wall.
Six of Crows
Kaz Brekker, a teenage criminal prodigy in the port city of Ketterdam, gathers five dangerous outcasts for a heist no one has survived: breaking a prisoner out of the Ice Court, the impregnable stronghold of Fjerda.
The Poppy War
A war orphan with shamanic powers is drafted into a military academy where she must survive both the brutality of training and the awakening of ancient gods.
The Rage of Dragons
In a caste-bound warrior society locked in endless war, a low-born young man with little talent swears revenge on the nobles who killed his father and drives himself through brutal training to get it.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Tracker, a mercenary famous for his nose, is hired to find a missing boy and joins a band of strange companions crossing an African-inspired world of rival kingdoms, witches and monsters, telling the story later to an inquisitor.
The Lies of Locke Lamora
A charming thief assembles a crew to rob a criminal overlord, kicking off a fantasy heist series set in a Venice-like city of thieves and con artists.