The Dragonbone Chair

How it reads

The Dragonbone Chair is fantasy (epic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are power and politics, family and war. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. It's a long book, and a real commitment. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.