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.

I'm 80% in to Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock. Love the idea of the subconscious tying into magic. But reading it quite slow and instead turning to The Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. Hero in Mythago is stupid and incompetent. Really, what exactly redeeming qualities does he have? Morals aren't awful. That's it.

Prince of Thorns is simple story of revenge. Lots of killing. The most removed from our reality and most escapist story I guess and the easiest to keep someone's interest. I guess very low brow but the characters, in some ways are far from stupid. Smarter than in the Night Angel. High action. Captivating. Also he's 14, kills people really well, and tortures and like's some fun with prostitutes. Good stuff.