The lies of Locke lamora is a good read but he only wrote the first 2 books and then went off the radar due to personal problems, Joe Abercrombie is a good read in a similar vein. I started out on Raymond E Feist, David Eddings and David Gemmell. Eddings and Gemmell may be a bit easy reading for some but if you want some good heroic fantasy and great characters I’d start there along with Magician by Raymond E Feist. Terry Goodkind’s Wizards first rule started off great along with Jordan’s wheel of time but both got lost along the way.