Red Temple,
Basically I felt Book 1 was the weakest of the books partly perhaps because it was as much a "setup" book for the rest of the series as anything else. Having said that it's still very good.
Form Book 2 onwards the quality of Mr. Erikson's series goes up a notch or three and never comes done. A new high watermark in EPIC fantasy IMHO
Simply the best fantasy series I've ever read with GRRM at No 2. on the hit parade.
When you get to Book 3 I feel this is where Erikson's genius really begins to come out.
Interestingly enough several readers have said the latest Book 5 is so far the best yet and I wouldn't argue about that.
BTW read Book 2 BEFORE reading Book 3 because there's some events in Book 2 that are linked to Book 3 so you may not pick this up if you read them out of order.
Enjoy!!!
