It's not that I think they're bad books. They're not. Most of the novels which feature apprentices and older wizards are written with the young guy as protagonists - and in *that* respect Rhailed stands out, because when the enemy is about to attack once more, he is the one who stands between the enemy and his kingdom - and there is no-one else, and suddenly he realises that improvising doesn't stop just because you're the most experienced guy on the block...
The quadrology is important, but... oh, softer in focus than the other two.
Ok. I *will* stop this, go home, and re-read the Ralierite Invasion and see whether that wants to be written now.
From the bit of hrilf that you posted on rasfc I have a slight preference for him,but they both sound interesting. As someone who started reading things like Marx's Capital, and Freud On the Interpretation of Dreams, and _Jane Eyre_ and _Hunchback of Notre Dame_ at age ten, and who still reads _Winnie-the-Pooh_ and the _Little House_ books at age 53, I evidently don't get this YA thing.
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and make money
and be a little famous
then be more happy,
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They both sound much more marketable than the quadrology.
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It's not that I think they're bad books. They're not. Most of the novels which feature apprentices and older wizards are written with the young guy as protagonists - and in *that* respect Rhailed stands out, because when the enemy is about to attack once more, he is the one who stands between the enemy and his kingdom - and there is no-one else, and suddenly he realises that improvising doesn't stop just because you're the most experienced guy on the block...
The quadrology is important, but... oh, softer in focus than the other two.
Ok. I *will* stop this, go home, and re-read the Ralierite Invasion and see whether that wants to be written now.
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