The Broken Sword

This is like if Shakespeare had written THE LORD OF THE RINGS. High praise? Aye, the highest. Anderson's prose is off the charts good. You're literally reading a fine work of art and a stone-cold classic. The story is an epic fantasy masterpiece full of tragic and interesting characters, exciting battle scenes, romance, witchcraft and fantastic creatures of all types. Layered with struggles between pagan and Christian gods, elves and trolls of Faerie, and men of the British Isles; as well as, shifts between multiple characters' viewpoints, will keep any reader engaged until the overwhelmingly awesome climax. Do yourself a favor and put this way up high on your TBR list. Make sure that your version has the author's complete original text as some of the older publications were edited for graphic content that happens to be important to the story.