New books please!

[Vincent, Thunder God]

Has anyone got any recommendations in terms of books I could read to entertain me whilst I'm on the tube? I'm a huge fan of the Wheel of Time as has previously been mentioned, though obviously it's hard to know what books are in the same vein from reading the blurb on the back.

The Sword of Truth series is in the same vein as WoT, and the first book is simply stunning. In my opinion that first book, Wizard's First Rule, is much better than most of WoT. However, as the series progresses the author, Terry Goodkind, starts to lose his descriptive, invigorating style. If you're prepared for the series to deteriorate somewhat like the WoT series eventually does, try the series.

At least read the first book, it's amazingly good.

EDIT: Be warned though, the WoT series is in its 12th book at the moment and still going, plus the author has out a prequel and some other things I believe. The books are over 1,000 pages long the farther in the series you get *still on book #9*

It took me the better part of a year to read up to book nine on and off just to put it into perspective. It is a very good read however, I especially like the fact that it's about people first and the world second. There's a lot of deep description of people's thoughts. What's sad is that the author has a really terrible disease and may not personally finish the series off.

I heard that he has a disease recently. If the series ended now due to his death, with this level of endless build-up, it would be terribly tragic and ironic.

Anyway, if you like character interaction and inner dialogues like you said, you'll love the Sword of Truth series. I found Robert Jordan's characters to be very generic and akin to cardboard cut-outs, but Terry Goodkind's are much more fleshed out and layered; very realistic.