Thank you! I'm happy to hear my enthusiasm is infectious, that is literally my goal! :D I'll keep the stand-alone books in mind for videos. It's a good suggestion! I just do series cause I have so many books I want to cover, and this helps me be different to other youtubers and stand out that way. But there are some fantastic stand alones that don't quite fit my current format! It's worth considering.

The Empire Trilogy is a must read! I believe it is all Wurts in Feist’s created world. I tell people to read Daughter of the Empire first, then the Magician then continue Empire. Silverthorn was ok and I thought Sethanon was a hot mess, to be skipped as it will sour you not to read on. Check out Kit’s World review of Empire, it is so funny and delightful.

Agreed 😊

Brooks and Feist were the first two fantasy authors I ever read as a Jr high school student. Reading them again during the pandemic lockdowns, I definitely feel like Brooks borrowed so heavily from Tolkien that some points feel like a rip off but I still enjoyed them for the most part. I liked rereading the early Feist novels a bit more, especially A Darkness At Sethanon and The King's Buccaneer.

Hey buddy, in America Magician was split into two books: Magician Apprentice, and Magician Master. In all other territories its released as one book. 😀

I disagree talon of the silverhawk is the best series, if you wish to call it conclave of shadows or whatever series it says on the cover sure

I love this! Books can be utterly ridiculous and still FUN!

I highly disagree. It it a great fantasy. And the final book was VERY philosophical on the speculation of the universe.

Great question! Magician was written as one book. However it was split it into two parts for the US markets. Everywhere else in the world, it's released as one book. I think it's important to consider it as one book because the story is VERY unresolved by the end of 'apprentice'.

Ha! Awesome! Normally, I'd say 'enjoy', but now I feel like I need to insist you do. 😉

I highly disagree that 5 and 6 are important. I feel like trauma was moreso the norm in the middle ages which this appears to be based so each trauma would have a lessen effect than if we went through it a secondly I don't think it would make a good read. A good example of this is lockear losing gemli or whatever her name is he actually goes through some depression because he is young and not as use to loss so feist shows this to show they are not free from emotions. He does not go hard into Thomas "ashensugar" gaining emotions either because it is not that important to analyze emotion, it's important the nature of this valharu is changing. This being said 4 and 5 are almost the same criticism Where this book might have sexism within the pages, I don't think that makes an author sexist. It like the previous topic would be a norm in the middle ages, so makes sense for it to be included in the book, that's when they met up with guy at amorgana everybody was surprised that a woman could be a leader cause that's the age this was based in, it relates it to our history. I'm not a fan of stories based in the future, because it feels way more separate from reality, as I picture this as a medieval time period it makes sense for these things to happen, at least in the human world. I feel like the destruction of talon of the silver hawk's village and surrounding villages is just as racist as these are sexist (in terms to the writer not the actions of the characters), which is none it is just the time period. Like when everybody was talking about Rowling undertones in books I thought it was ridiculous, throught the story her main characters maybe not ron were moral on these fronts. Just like I feel like feust main characters are moral, there are some times not such the character being young, for the greater good (let's take guy and athura the later being willing to kill martin and recognizing this character flaw, just like Dumbledore understands he is using a child for the greater good). And to expand on this the story is made more believable by using fantasy tropes for things that are already unbelievable. So 1,5,6 and not good points, and fuck it I sure as shit don't care how well it's written, as you can probably tell from all my English mistakes