[billyad2000]

These books are an excellent read,

I've read a lot of knitpicking in this thread and if I had wrote these novels then I would probably be more than a little offended.
It has always been my opinion that it's the story that matters, more than anything.
I am no writing critic, but to be honest i've read hundreds of books where the author gets far too involved with how he is writing, rather than what he is writing. A good example would probably be Robert Jordan. I love his wheel of time series, overall I would rate it among the best, however, in the later books the story seemed to grind to a halt. The writing style couldn't be faulted, but at a great cost to the story.

With the firestaff series this doesn't happen. The story moves at a cracking pace and very rarely slows down. I would even go as far as to say that this easily exceeds a great many of the fantasy novels that I have happily paid money for.

I do warn people that these books are huge, 2-3 times bigger than your average fantasy novel.