Prince, King and Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.
Kind of an unusual series of books. Pretty good. Slightly unserious feel to them. Had a very positive feel despite seemingly about very negative things. Was pretty enjoyable. He readily admits he wrote it without an outline and I guess it shows. It doesn't flounder by it's all out of chronological order. And has surprises that one feels are the result of him adding twist after he already wrote earlier sections.... But it's kind of like, hey whatever, nice surprise!

What it does have is a bad ass fighter hero and a good breadth of characters, including many on the side of the good guys.
Some kind of stupid stuff. And very quirky.

I'm now working on a bunch of characters. Really trying to make sure to a have lots of good characters. And not like Jack Vance, who basically everyone was a variant of three character types. Trying to make sure to make lots and lots of people.