Books like 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.
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Best Served Cold
A mercenary general plots revenge after being betrayed, hiring a motley company for a blood-soaked campaign across a war-torn land.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Promise of Blood
Field Marshal Tamas leads a coup against the king of Adro and sends the royal cabal of mages to the guillotine, but their dying words hint at a threat from the gods, and his son Taniel, a powder mage, and Adamat, a retired detective, set out to learn what it means.
Gardens of the Moon
The Malazan Empire turns its armies on Darujhistan, the last free city of Genabackis, and Ganoes Paran, a young noble drawn into the games of the gods, is sent to command the Bridgeburners, a battered company the empress may want dead.
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.
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
In an alternate matriarchal Asia after a cataclysmic war, a teenage half-breed carries a monster inside her and hunts the sorceresses who made her a weapon.