Thanks everyone for the input.
I have decided to.... make you wait until the end of the post before saying what I've decided.
I've read Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, and liked it... I've also heard that the series deteriorates, though. So either way it's inconclusive.
It does. I actually started reading it on the strength of the 6/7th book, and I liked the first handful of books, but...
Chainfire; could be interesting, it depends how into the series you are. I suspect that he started writing the books to sell after a while, as the actual plot per book is often very thin on the ground, and highly padded. I haven't read this one myself yet, though, nor phantom for that matter.
Yeah, the series starts all nice and fantasy and stuff, but the recent ones have been a lot more... I dunno what the right word is. It seems to me that he's writing to spread his particular [political] viewpoint, and I vaguely remember quotes by him that back that up. Which is part of why I haven't already started on these; I like to enjoy reading, not feel like some huge ego is lecturing me. :mellow:
The ones not mentioned I either haven't read, or are the second and third books in a trilogy. I'm assuming that you'd want to start reading them at the first book
Anything listed that's part way through a series I've read the start of the series for.
(The only series book I've got without having the start of it is something by Maggie Fury, which is the third in a trilogy so not going to read that without reading the first two)Trudi Canavan is my very favourite author, by a long, long way. I'd suggest you read the Black Magician trilogy first, if you haven't (mainly because Age of the Five isn't finished yet, and I assume you hate waiting for books as much as I do; Age of the Five has better characters, better story... better).
Yup, read the Black Magician trilogy already, so if this is better than that's promising; I found the BM characters very.... um, distinct -- unlike in WoT/etc where I sometimes go, "uh, which one is this again?" -- each character was a character, which I like.
And yeah, I hate waiting, especially when its a matter of years.
Any idea if its another trilogy, or a five book series, or...?
The first is The Northern Lights, the second The Subtle Knife, and the last The Amber Spyglass.
SS put them in the wrong order.
Hey, I just listed them in the order my bookshelf held them! Don't blame me for my bookshelf being disordered!
Okay, I'm going to go for
Daughter of the Empire first, and read that trilogy, and then after that I'll do the Northern Lights and see if I want to go to the end of that, and then I'll go back to the Sword of Truth series, and then after that I might finish off the Dune set, and by the end of that I wont have remembered what I might decide next anyway, so I wont decide until I get there (which'll probably take me the best part of a year). :alien:
