Recently I have been reading a couple of epic fantasy authors:
Heath Pfaff - the hungering saga / chaos awakens / seventh
This is one of my favourites, he writes dark epic fantasies, where the protagonist isn't always a good person. In Chaos Awakens, the protagonist is an assassin, who was a mage when he was little but got exiled. In The Hungering Saga, the story revolves around engineered warriors, with the eyes of a fae like race and the limbs of a wolf or drake. Throughout the book the main character makes darker and darker decisions, and near the end you wonder if he is actually the good guy.
Pfaff is brilliant at describing scenes and battles however not so great at endings. In both trilogies he fails to properly wrap up the story and seems to rush the epilogue.
Next is Michael Scott Earle - The Destroyer
It follows a newly awakened war commander who cannot remember his past. In his time, elvens had enslaved humans and he was part of the revolution. After he is awakened, the elvens make another attempt on domination. WARNING: after the first book there is a lot of NSFW.
This series starts very strong, the main character is a great combination of scary powerful and a sarcastic ass. I think it was after the second book that it started going downhill, there were no new good battles, no scenes that make you feel emotional, but I am still reading it.
Other than that, if you have a kindle, I would recommend looking up Quest. It is a free compilation of 8 full length fantasies with pretty good authors.
