Reddit reviews Blood Song (A Raven's Shadow Novel)

Hrm.

Maybe The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin? That gets very epic, but not quite in the same way as Malazan or Wheel of Time. It feels a little more anime-esque, which you might or might not enjoy.

Are you only looking for finished series?

Will Wight's House of Blades looks is the start of a series that might go in the direction you're looking for, but again, it has a little more of an anime feel.

Blood Song by Anthony Ryan is the start of something pretty epic, but it's just the beginning of a series. It's a little lighter on magic than the examples above, but it looks like there will probably be more magic later on.

Amazon has it.. Barnes and Noble as well. The cover is as shown in my pics, not in their icons on Amazon.

This book is brilliant.

I want to read this but I am confused! Is it this one or this one?

If you want another Dresden-like book series, check out the Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne. I'd say they are almost sue-ably similar. Main character is flippant and sarcastic, but also honorable and relies heavily on improvisation. I think these would be exactly what you're looking for.

I can also second the suggestion for Weeks' new Lightbringer series.

For your Night Angel fix, I recently read and loved Blood Song. The author is fairly new, but the book is absolutely solid and wonderful.

Another good book series is the Kingkiller Chronicles.

I'll stop the list there before I get carried away. But I think Iron Druid and Blood Song will be spot on as far as similarity. The other two are books I think you'll really enjoy, but aren't necessarily as similar.

Blood Song, by Anthony Ryan has a lot of similarities to the Kingkiller Series. They share the same framing device: a notorious person tells his life story to a historian. In this one, the main character is awaiting execution for killing a neighboring empire's heir, and a historian wants to get his side of things before it's lost forever.

The main character, Vaelin Al Sorna, is given up by his father, a high ranking Lord, to the Sixth Order, a sect of monastic warriors, for seemingly political reasons. Abandoned by his father, he devotes himself to duty and the Faith, but he often finds himself caught between its harsh strictures and his own innate sense of morality.

Aside from the similar structure, the stories are very different in both scope and tone, not to mention having a much faster pace. It also has one of the highest review scores I've ever seen on Amazon. Note that Blood Song was originally self published on Kindle, but it was picked up by a traditional publisher and a hardcover version will be available in July.