The delightful part of this is that there’s lot of things in here that I didn’t know I wanted to see, ie: what happens after Attolia’s first husband dies, more of Melheret, Melheret’s wife. Does that mean the last two stories are bad? No, it just means they make me want to lay face down on the floor and cease to exist. Let’s start with, did I like it? Yes, except for the last two stories. I’m sitting here trying to formulate something coherent and it’s painful but I’ll come up with something.

*Not gonna spoiler tag this because the spoilers are pretty vague, but be warned that there are vague spoilers in the sense that I mention who and what shows up in the book, as well as who does not! >:( * One recipe included - and metric measurements, included, oh thank you! I get a terrible mind blank at recipes in cups and sticks and all, where I look at it and my mind just blanks.Īnd about sequels, Pheris' missing volumes, oh come on, Megan, come on.Not even for my sake, you know you want to. Incidentally MWT calls her books the Geniad.

And the events with Eugenia and Hector are necessarily unhappy or destroying anything. the end of Eddis is fair enough, something I would be wondering about, when would that happen, since that being forecast is truly the motivation for the whole series and why gods act. That is good, I have little shelf space, good thing I did not know of extras in redundant paperbacks!), but there are a lot of never published stories and vignettes (some of these very satisfying despite being very short) and 2 new, set generations after the end of the Return of the Thief which seem to have caused a lot of complex feelings in other readers, but I liked those very much despite adding complexity to the what happens next. Go start with the The Thief and keep in mind that is different, more YA in tone (the only proper YA book actually) than all the later books.Īccording to the final word this volume includes reprints of some short stories included in paperback editions (surprisingly I only knew of one of those. Very very satisfying, but probably for rabid fans only, it will be meaningless to people who have not read ALL the other books (the short story collection is not the same universe, not required). Made me feel all fangirl-y in every single page. Probably for fans only, a revisit of the Little Peninsula, some short stories, and vignettes, and many earring pictures, and some context on her inspiration.

The queen's thief