Fantasy recommendations

[Farseer]

Am I going too far? Yes, given the utterly convincing nature of your extremely simple examples, I am! Weeks does receive very strong reviews from a vast number of places, particularly from well-read and established fantasy fans, so maybe it is just me picking on him without cause (which would in turn make me a bit of a bully, and I hate bullies!). I'm thinking that you, and everyone here who hasn’t done so yet, really should read something of his.

I do understand that there are certain repetitious conventions of the genre that are to be expected but...and therein may lie a possible answer (or at least one further insight) into another question you asked about fantasy - Why does the fantasy genre have such a bad reputation? I will post something there at some stage.

Staying true to my own "rule for rant", and high expectations, I must also now concede that if I had read of Gemmell's Nine Duchies and then read of the Six Duchies, if published first, I would have ventured into the same rant regardless of the author.

*hangs head* My humble apologies to you for singling you out for a beating, Brent W. I hereby promise to continue ‘The Black Prism’ with a more open mind…