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kalinaraSo, it's apparently been almost two years since I read the last book in this batshit series that I love and love to mock so much. That's a lot, considering that I genuinely do enjoy reviewing this series.
It is a time and energy investment. These books are fucking HUGE and thanks to the level of purple prose and the ridiculous actions of the characters, I'm inclined toward a LOT of excerpts. To be honest, I'm pretty sure only one person has actually read these. I'm okay with that.
Anyway, I have just learned that the most recent and FINAL book in this series has just gone up for preorder. So the time just feels right to go back to this universe. I hope I have the stamina.
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So one interesting quirk about this series is that it is divided into arcs, of sorts. The first book, Curse of the Mistwraith, was standalone. Ships of Merior and Warhost of Vastmark are one arc - actually, they started as one book (and the hardcover is published that way) - but it turned out too big in paperback form. That's why Warhost of Vastmark is so small - a mere five hundred something pages.
The next arc in the series, "The Alliance of Light" did not start as one book. Or perhaps it did, I don't know any backstory. What I do know is that this arc consists of books four through eight of the series. It's fucking LONG. And none of these books are Vastmark length either. They do flow together, at least in my memory, enough that I'm not entirely sure what happens in which book.
I THINK this is the one with the naked cuddling? We'll see.
One thing I do know is that this next part of the series will take place over a substantial period of time. We're dealing with a hero and a villain who drank from the five-hundred year fountain after all, and we're going to start to see that. Child characters are going to grow. Some characters are going to die. And it's going to be rough. But we're at the start of the trip, so I don't think we have to worry too much about that yet.
Yet.
Now, given the length and general complexity of the series so far, and the fact that it's been so long since the last one, I decided rather than start outright. I'm going to write a refresher of the series so far.
The real content will be next week.
( I might do more series recaps, if folks like them... )
It is a time and energy investment. These books are fucking HUGE and thanks to the level of purple prose and the ridiculous actions of the characters, I'm inclined toward a LOT of excerpts. To be honest, I'm pretty sure only one person has actually read these. I'm okay with that.
Anyway, I have just learned that the most recent and FINAL book in this series has just gone up for preorder. So the time just feels right to go back to this universe. I hope I have the stamina.
--
So one interesting quirk about this series is that it is divided into arcs, of sorts. The first book, Curse of the Mistwraith, was standalone. Ships of Merior and Warhost of Vastmark are one arc - actually, they started as one book (and the hardcover is published that way) - but it turned out too big in paperback form. That's why Warhost of Vastmark is so small - a mere five hundred something pages.
The next arc in the series, "The Alliance of Light" did not start as one book. Or perhaps it did, I don't know any backstory. What I do know is that this arc consists of books four through eight of the series. It's fucking LONG. And none of these books are Vastmark length either. They do flow together, at least in my memory, enough that I'm not entirely sure what happens in which book.
I THINK this is the one with the naked cuddling? We'll see.
One thing I do know is that this next part of the series will take place over a substantial period of time. We're dealing with a hero and a villain who drank from the five-hundred year fountain after all, and we're going to start to see that. Child characters are going to grow. Some characters are going to die. And it's going to be rough. But we're at the start of the trip, so I don't think we have to worry too much about that yet.
Yet.
Now, given the length and general complexity of the series so far, and the fact that it's been so long since the last one, I decided rather than start outright. I'm going to write a refresher of the series so far.
The real content will be next week.
( I might do more series recaps, if folks like them... )