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 Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #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)
Halo Scot
She’s dressed in a white her soul doesn’t reflect, a drop-dead beauty with drop-dead morals.
Halo Scot, Echoes of Blood

S. A. Matey
Taein couldn’t feel much anymore, but he could still feel Vasily’s presence in his very bones. The old unbreakable tether between them. That unrelenting grudge. The thief turned and faced the hunter, the path ended at last
S. A. Matey, Prince of Glass: Remastered

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