Very interesting review! It's been so long since I first read these books (1997, to be precise) that I've long since passed the stage of being able to be very critical about it, so I like reading other people's takes.
West definitely paces her individual books in terms of the entire arc of her given story (six books for The Sun Sword), which I found rich and satisfying at the time. I think she's gotten better about being slightly more succinct, but her most recent book was still 600+ pages in hardcover.
Iirc there is a fair amount of Kiriel in the next book. She definitely has a fair amount of trauma in her past, as you discerned.
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Date: 2011-06-14 01:45 pm (UTC)West definitely paces her individual books in terms of the entire arc of her given story (six books for The Sun Sword), which I found rich and satisfying at the time. I think she's gotten better about being slightly more succinct, but her most recent book was still 600+ pages in hardcover.
Iirc there is a fair amount of Kiriel in the next book. She definitely has a fair amount of trauma in her past, as you discerned.