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I really enjoy Joe Abercrombie. If you ever get around to him I would suggest you start with his First Law trilogy since Age of Madness builds off of the same world. I also suggest them because I've actually read them and thought they were good whereas I haven't made time for the new trilogy yet.
What I really think are his highlights (again, that I've read) are two of the standalone (but still connected to the trilogies) books he did called Best Served Cold and The Heroes. I really loved both.
Somewhere in there he did a YA series too that I ignored. It was the only thing he's done that I know of that doesn't connect to the same world and characters.
If 317 ever ventured into these topics he would gush about Brandon Sanderson.
Shagbot from ProM would gush about Robert Jordan. | |
| I still think the best fantasy books I have ever read are Patrick Rothfuss' Name of the Wind series. The problem is that only 2 of the 3 are out, and if you read them you will be stuck in this never-ending George R. R. Martin style wait for the third book that the rest of us are in. |
I read these two and thought they were really good but yeah I can't suggest them because the author's indifference seems like GRRM's on steroids.
An older series that I read in the aftermath of ASOIAF was the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams. It wound up being a series that GRRM had obviously taken inspiration from quite heavily. Really bare bones basic fantasy but it was enjoyable and made me side eye George a little bit. | 
