The fantasy du jour is of course Game of Thrones -- greatly fleshed-out characters, women and men, sarcasm, and epic adventure of the dark and difficult kind: someone described it as realpolitik in a fictional world, and that captures it well. Very triggery, though -- basically, you name it, it's in there, and not once but about a hundred times. *Per installment*. Some parts drag, and some characters are a drag, although thankfully most of the ones I dislike die horrible gruesome deaths (which, I won't lie, is just awesome).

And oh, God, I spent my childhood and youth reading books, quite a bit of it fantasy. I'll go through it in my head and let you know. :)