Speaking of the Comyn

[james_davis_nicoll]

If you could overthrow one fictional set of aristocrats and nobles whose creator clearly thinks are the bee's knees, which lot would you pick?

I'm more inclined to be harshest towards the SFnal aristocracies, since they have actual history to have learned from.

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[almeda.livejournal.com]

For a relatively recent book (ok, fantasy trilogy) that ends up being an uprising against the gods themselves -- and saying more would be a spoiler -- I can fairly highly recommend Trudi Canavan's 'Age of the Five' books -- Priestess of the White, Last of the Wilds, and Voice of the Gods, in that order.

Ignore the romance-novel-style cover art; the books are much better than their cover paintings. They also have really neat continent-spanning geopolitics and intrigue. They start out looking shallow and a bit superficial, but trust me, all that is just setup for the kick-to-the-back-of-the-protagonist's-head reveal. Or series of them.