I can’t recommend Max Gladstone’s “Three Parts Dead” enough as BitD inspiration. Set in an industrial city literally powered by contracts with a god, where slivers of your soul are the defacto currency and defaulting on a contract can kill a divinity. Part legal drama, part mystery and altogether incredibly interesting. Am already devouring the next instalment.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539191-three-parts-dead
Also I remind anyone to add to the collective inspirations list here: https://goo.gl/M4aycp
Thanks, will have to check this out.
The rest of the series is also applicable, in particular the newest The Ruin of Angels, which includes gangs who steal magical secrets from the ghost of the old city.
Seconded. Magnificent series.
£7.07 for the trilogy on kindle in the UK.
Awesome, I had forgotten there were more books in the series. I’ve only read the first one.
Another vote for this series, although keep in mind the order in which the series is published is different than the actual in world chronological order of the books… This may help avoid confusion, if my statement wasn’t already confusing enough. GRIN
Post more ideas to the group resource list docs.google.com – [Inspirations] Dreams of Blades
Excellent series. Mage-lawyers FTW.