godddie wrote:An often overlooked series is Janny Wurts' The Wars of Light and Shadow the first book is Curse of the Mistwraith.
It is deemed to be a harder read due to the overly descriptive and poetic prose but IMO that is also part of what makes it such a memorable read.
You may also like Robin Hobb's Assassin trilogies and the Liveship Traders series which comes after the first or 2nd trilogy.
The Wars of Light and Shadow certainly qualifies as the highest of high fantasy and is her magnum opus (I love
Curse of the Mistwaith...the emotional ending was a heck of a payoff for sticking with the book).
But for those who want something less dense, there is also the Empire trilogy that she collaborated with Raymond E. Feist on. That trilogy has the better parts of the two writers. Wurts without Feist tends to be dense and hard to get into(though absolutely worth it), like her Wars of Light and Shadow. Feist without Wurts tends to be meaningless superficial entertainment that is forgettable and mediocre like his Riftwar stuff. The collaboration has less dense and more accessible prose a la Feist, combined with emotional heart a la Wurts.
It is one of the rare instances where the collaboration may be better than the individual writers in some ways.
