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I'd like to point you to an excellent work of fiction, George R.R. Martins truly epic
A Song of Ice and Fire. It is essentially a high fantasy world (e.g. dragons, magic, medieval setting) with a storyline that varies from political intrigue to large scale battle enviroments with very well thought-through characters and a pitch black shot of humor.
The background is very well constructed, we have seven major houses (kingdoms), each with their own banners, minor houses and histories, set against each other, a vague sense of impending doom (
winter is coming for those of you who already know the books
xd ) and very intricate and vivid descriptions of cast and landmarks.
I must warn you though, two things make A Song of Ice and Fire special compared to your regular fantasy novel. First, be careful, as soon as you've read into a few chapters the 'just one more page' feeling kicks in until you yawn and blink and wonder that it's 4am already.
Again.
Second, Martin has a special way of treating his major characters, especially in the first two books. It will easily happen that the main character you've been reading with (and about) the last four chapters dies within two sentences. This takes a liitle getting used to but but once you're into it it creates a very tense and interesting atmosphere. And don't worry, the major dying is done in books one and two. Most people get more or less unharmed through to books three and four.
Most of them.
If you're interested now I'd recommend you have a look at
A Game of Thrones, the first book of the series. You have a nice read ahead of you, and make sure you have the second volume ready once you begin with the first one or the suspense will just kill you.
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