Welcome to Litsy!

My husband was super excited to have our book group read this trilogy, only to have the shine taken off his teenage enthusiasm as he realized these haven‘t aged well. They‘re fun adventures, but the writing isn‘t great, the plot twists are pretty obvious, the characters are a bit flat (also: Holy Tolkien ripoff, Batman!), and the female characters are…well…designed for 1980s D&D fanboys.😬It was still a fun ride reading “foundational” D&D fantasy!

My favorite fantasy series. Properly: Chronicles trilogy (above), Legends trilogy, New Generation, then Dragons of Summer Flame. An excellent study of a story evolving in tandem with its author‘s ability to convey it. First books to make me both yell and cry. Copy signed by Weis, Hickman, and Elmore! I met them only recently, some 20 years after falling in love with their world. How this series came to exist at all is an equally fascinating story.