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[Clansman]

Originally Posted by Ivaron

But your post makes me think I might have judged too soon..

Perhaps a wee bit of shooting from the hip. I think Ross and Grimward would agree that Empire is as rich as any Feist novel in plot and development, but has a greater depth of characterization. To me, it was a little more sophisticated.

I know that Grimward would agree that Wurts' big series, The Wars of Light and Shadow, stands shoulder to shoulder with GRR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Steven Erikson's Malazan books with complexity of plot development, but the characters are simply BETTER. Also, more balance between light and dark, instead of just dark. And all apologies to RJ fans, but WoT is not in the same league by a long shot. WoLaS is way more complex, and it keeps evolving, where WoT got pretty stuck around book 7.

Mind you, Wurts writes at a very advanced level, and her prose, though I love it, is a bit of an acquired taste, like fine Scotch whiskey, unless you are used to reading graduate-level prose. This isn't so present in the Empire series. It is also why I recommend people to read To Ride Hell's Chasm. It starts as a mystery, and then explodes into incredibly fast paced action from the half-way marker to the end of the book. In that, it is similar to all of the rest of her books that I have read. Her pacing is brilliant.