Grimdark

Grimdark is a subgenre or a way to describe the tone, style or setting of speculative fiction (especially fantasy) that is, depending on the definition used, markedly dystopian or amoral, or particularly violent or realistic.

The word was inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
Best Served Cold
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
The Heroes
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Red Country
King of Thorns (Broken Empire, #2)
Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire, #3)
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
S. A. Matey
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S. A. Matey, Prince of Glass: Remastered

J.L. Coulbeck
You wore our words like armour,” he said. “But you never carried the weight.
J.L. Coulbeck, The Witch Hunter's Lie

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