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[meganbmoore]

Not that I need more books, but can anyone offer up opinion on Sara Douglass's Wayfarer books, Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books, Brian Sanderson's Mistborn books, or Elizabeth Hayden's Symphony of Ages books?  (Yes, I know those aren't the official titles for some...)

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[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Douglass has one of the worst prose styles I've ever encountered. Avoid.

I didn't like the first Hayden book enough to finish it. Cookie-cutter high fantasy with nothing to distinguish it from a million other books.

Carey I like a lot, but she is not to everyone's tastes-- definitely a love-or-hate writer. The first page of the first book should be enough to tell you whether you love or hate her prose, style, and/or heroine. There's some pretty extreme BDSM in the first book.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think I tried reading either Douglass or Hayden ages ago (as in, in college when they first came out) but didn't finish it. But I don't know if it was from badness, or because bricks were too long for me to read then outside of breaks.

I may actually have acquired the first Carey on a whim at a bookstore visit, though.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Carey is very lush; she has a descriptive style from an earlier age, and it suits her perspective character well. The smut is very high-class, and not particularly skimmable, as-- and this is a rare exception in a book with this much smut-- good portions of it are important to characterization later on. I enjoyed the first book well enough, but got stalled on it halfway through, mostly due to circumstances rather than a flaw in Carey.