re: Looking for opinions on these Fantasy Novels

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Main thing that stands out in Powder Mage is the setting and weaponry. A Napoleonic era setting and the arrival of black powder are pretty unique in a fantasy setting. And the writing style is just gritty, violent, and without many lulls. Magic is done well, but not overdone. Battles are epic in scale. Just my kind of fantasy.

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What we think of as fantasy is such a new genre with Lord of the Rings coming out about 60 years ago and not really having a ton of other things available till later. The early works that followed explored magic, but generally stuck into the medieval fantasy and tolkein inspired races - with true sci-fi developed sort of as a parallel.

You are going to start seeing more and more of these kinds of settings and mixtures of setting / cultures come up. Also start seeing fantasy and sci-fi ideas get intertwined in certain series hopefully. Especially as video media inspires more and more young people to get into the genre with fresh ideas.

Sanderson's current mistborn trilogy is in that setting and I've wanted to check out The Shadow Campaigns series, which also features the "flintlock fantasy" setting as they call it.

There are some interesting takes on the steam-punk setting.