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So, I've been reading this series. I wasn't actually too impressed with the first book, and yet I enjoyed it so much that I needed to read the second, and now I definitely need the third. This is VERY typical of my experience of Lackey, whose tropes are some of my own favorite mind-candy.
That said, these books are not so awesome in terms of continuity. Friends who know me: I spotted continuity issues on the first read-through.... Yeah. Not good. I cannot really explain them without spoilering things to heck and back, but there are blatant continuity errors. Largely unnecessary - you could achieve the story without them.
But the underlying story - assuming you like Lackey's favorite trope of a young person who is All That And More - is pretty fun and the world is fascinating.
What I really do NOT understand is all the complaints about Joy - Joy is our main character - and how she figures things out and how come no one else is.
( I don't think there are spoilers here, but my generalizations might let someone who then read the series figure things out ahead of time here and there )
That said, these books are not so awesome in terms of continuity. Friends who know me: I spotted continuity issues on the first read-through.... Yeah. Not good. I cannot really explain them without spoilering things to heck and back, but there are blatant continuity errors. Largely unnecessary - you could achieve the story without them.
But the underlying story - assuming you like Lackey's favorite trope of a young person who is All That And More - is pretty fun and the world is fascinating.
What I really do NOT understand is all the complaints about Joy - Joy is our main character - and how she figures things out and how come no one else is.
( I don't think there are spoilers here, but my generalizations might let someone who then read the series figure things out ahead of time here and there )