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Imaro by Charles de Lint, Charles R. Saunders

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber

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adventurous dark lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings

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adventurous lighthearted slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea

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adventurous dark reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Five Hundred Years After by Steven Brust

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adventurous lighthearted slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.5

I've finished the audiobook on autopilot. It's not that it is bad necessary, but it did just completely failed to grab my attention in any meaningful way. There are too many nearly indistinguishable characters, wrapped inside of a very standard fantasy story.
The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust

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adventurous funny mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations by Manly Wade Wellman

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I've picked up the book sorta by mistake - it didn't occurred to me that a writer with a name like "Manly Wade Wellman" could have TWO characters named "John", both of whom have tendency to deal with supernatural (in fairness, Mr. Manly seems to have a whole lot of protagonists, operating in similar fields of paranormal & occasionally meeting each other).
There's a lot of "didn't aged well" elements to the stories, and even more of well established in modern age tropes, presented as "twists", but.. I found myself slowly getting hooked, there's much more research, than usually you would find in short stories like this, written between 1940 and 1970s, for example, and not all of it aged terrible.
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

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adventurous hopeful mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

There is an interesting story somewhere in there, but it buried in between all of the High School Rich Kids "oh, woe me, weight of responsibility" Drama...