I felt much the same way. I really liked the first book, even though I could point out several things I didn't like about it, but I struggled to make it even a quarter of the way through the second book. Once I made a concerted effort though and got past halfway, I ended up finishing it rather quickly and might have liked it more overall. Tough to say though, because the "becoming a hero phase" for the main dude in the first book was pretty awesome.Rereading "The Desert Spear" right now...when I first read it, I was disappointed about the Jardir part because like everyone I wasn't expecting it, but this time I think I prefer it to the Leesha's Twilight-esqe storyline about how everyone wants to fuck her, and I'm kind of looking forward to see how full of shit all the prophecies and advice Inevera gave Jardir was with her POV backstory section.
There seem to be more Fantasy Authors asking question in the AMA in there then not, that was an interesting one. I have something very important to do the week of the 13th...I probably shouldn't buy the book until I can spare a day... damn.Thanks for the heads up. I enjoyed the hell out of the first two books in this.
There's a pretty big clique of these younger fantasy guys that are all pretty good friends now and publicly fuck with each other. See the Rothfuss thread where one got others to start posing like sexist fantasy book covers. Guys like Brett, Weeks, Sanderson, Myke Cole, Mark Lawrence, Rothfuss, Abercrombie, seems like they're all varying degrees of pals. Any time one of them does an AMA the others will pop up a bit. Mark Lawrence and Myke Cole especially are clearly pretty just big fans of reddit, at least the /r/fantasy subreddit.There seem to be more Fantasy Authors asking question in the AMA in there then not, that was an interesting one. I have something very important to do the week of the 13th...I probably shouldn't buy the book until I can spare a day... damn.
I don't remember the second book especially well as I didn't like it very much but here's the gist if you want (its a rather bland summary, but the book is actually very engaging):Has anyone seen a good summary of both books? I read them both when they first came out but I have the worst memory when it comes to books these days, so I am really struggling to remember a lot of the specifics, but I don't want to reread the full books just to refresh myself.
My thoughts on Daylight War...I guess I'll spoiler them: