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Originally Posted by columbus
Just read the first, that & the second (pbooks) have been sitting on my bookshelf for some time & I now have the third from CD Wow, (free delivery worldwide), so must read ( to read list goes up faster than I can read  ) |
They are very quick reads. Don't plan on any extensive delay between books though, particularly the second and the third as I don' t think the third book can actually stand on its own. It is really just a two hundred and fifty page ending more than anything else. Still it is nice to have it ended and it wasn't bad by any means. The transition from 2 to 3 was relatively seamless and I didn't notice much in the way of a writing shift but that may have been due to the rapid acceleration of plot which didn't really give you time to notice or care about dialogue, scene and character development.
Now, if I can just get that darn Wheel of Time series ended in my lifetime that would be great.
On another note I am about half way through the first Dresden book (this series is another product of my micropay using up frenzy). I'm liking but not loving it at this point. I do definitely like the detective style feel to it juxtaposed with the wizard aspect. I just don't know whether I will come to care enough about the main character or any of the other ones to immediately lunge to the next one and the next when I am finished. I'm thinking this will be a nice light filler series for me and I have a feeling, although obviously I don't know for sure until I read another one, that you don't need a whole lot of background on what just happened in the last book so there will be no need to read them consecutively.
Mel