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Originally Posted by Tarana
My Mom read all 5 books and she also said the first 3 were really excellent and there was no real reason to finish the next two.
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I also liked the first three. The fourth was missing several of my favourite characters, and the fifth introduced a lot of new characters and side stories which were less interesting. I expected him to start to tighten up the various story threads, preparing to tie them up in some kind of satisfying finale, but instead the story seems to be unraveling and running away from him.
I'll probably buy and read the next one, if it comes, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Originally Posted by Gandulf
I offer a challenge, name a fantasy series that comes close to this. Malazan book of the fallen come close and please don't name WOT, it's a children's book compared.
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Fantasy series with a huge, complex, many-faceted world, which develops and changes in the course of the novels, and with a rich gallery of characters? I can think of a few. I prefer the ones which have completed story arcs in one book or a few books, instead of having a single huge mastodon of a series where you don't get a satisfying resolution to the story until the final book.
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings
- Lois McMaster Bujold's World of the Five Gods
- Trudi Canavan's novels (I don't know if she has an overarching name for the universe her books take place in)
- Steven Brust's Dragaera
If we're also willing to go to other genres, I'd say:
- Steve Miller and Sharon Lee's Liaden series (science fiction)
- Bujold's Vorkosigan series (science fiction)
- Colleeen McCullough's First Man in Rome (historical fiction)