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Robin Hobb writes in first person and I think that is a leading reason why she is among my all time favorite authors. I've been reading these urban fantasy novels which are all first person but I'd like to read some traditional fantasy in first person and I can't come up with anything. I agree with the bulk of fantasy authors that third person limited is the superior format; but I'd like some nice, single perspective first person novels to breeze through in between the heavy lifting.
Hell, at this point I'd read Science Fiction or even general fiction if it were very good and written in first person. Bonus points if it is a female author writing a female protagonist, I have trouble empathizing with men.
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those fantasy books about the whore with her tattoo are in first person. the first one is at any rate.
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Yes, but I am looking for something I haven't already read.
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Caoilin posted:
those fantasy books about the whore with her tattoo are in first person. the first one is at any rate.
*giggles* I  you Cao
It amuses me that we know what you're talking about.
And all her books of that line are first person.
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Vlad Taltos series by Brust.
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You know, I've been trying to buy that Brust series for five years now. No book store carries them and every time I go to order books online I always have other stuff fresh on my mind. I have a note card from years ago and that is the only thing left that isn't crossed off.
I think I've actually posted about this before. Maybe I will actually break down and get it now.
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vn_jurojin posted:
Vlad Taltos series by Brust.
I just finished the first trilogy (I think) and it was great.
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Yossarian_42 posted:
You know, I've been trying to buy that Brust series for five years now. No book store carries them and every time I go to order books online I always have other stuff fresh on my mind. I have a note card from years ago and that is the only thing left that isn't crossed off.
I think I've actually posted about this before. Maybe I will actually break down and get it now.
Both Borders and Barnes and Nobles always have several prints. There's the single small books and the compendium, three books in one prints. First book is kind of rough, but funny as hell. The rest get smoother.
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Not my Borders or B&N. 
I've literally never seen anything but the newest book or two in the series.
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Maybe they're just more popular in my neck of the woods (Near St. Louis). That sucks. Totally worth ordering if you get a chance though.
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I just finished up Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It does the first person single narrative pretty well if you can rock with the YA stuff. It's not bad, though I would advise you to ignore the "second coming of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series!!!" fans of the series, because it's not.
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Agonderae posted:
I just finished up Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It does the first person single narrative pretty well if you can rock with the YA stuff. It's not bad, though I would advise you to ignore the "second coming of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series!!!" fans of the series, because it's not.
Ya I read those, were a quick read, that's only similarity between Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, both quick and easy fun reads.
Old thread, but have you read Name of the Wind? it's kinda a 1st person because he's narrating a story of his life, it's an amazing book to me. (fantasy genre)
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