Fantasy recommendations

[Chrischa]

Have any of you read anything by Elizabeth Haydon? I've bought this 'Legends II' book of short stories from various authors - the reason being quite obvious, I hope. The short overview of her stories reminds me of our three word story on this forum; it seems like a patchwork of an enormously complicated tale. But the short story itself is not turning out bad. I'd love to know what her full books are like.

And I thought I'd finally take the opportunity to ask about the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I started reading the first book once (and please correct me if I'm thinking about the wrong books), but after a few chapters I put it aside. The main character was such a b¨¨stard! When he raped the daughter of the first people who ever showed him any hospitality and friendliness, I tossed the book to the other side of the room (even though it was a library copy... my bad), and never picked it up again. Yet I see the series mentioned time and time again in people's favorites. Anyone care to set a strayed reader straight?

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And there are very postive reviews by a number of genre heavyweights on the site, including our very own tangle leader.

Indeed, there she is! Hands up everyone who now goes to this website to read her review - even if it's only a review of a book, it's still something new from Robin Hobb to read.

Bit of a silly review from Orson Scott Card above that. If you ask me, ever since that man became obsessively religious, everything he writes preaches and is all about morality and doing good. His Alvin Maker books started out so well, but by now the main character is such a saint it becomes unreadable.

All in my opinion of course...