Well, of Legends 2, I have so far had time to read the first two stories and part of the third.
Robin Hobb - my first exposure to her. When I first started the story, my heart sank. Oh no, do I really have to read the story of a spoiled noblewoman in diary form? But Hobb turned all of the cliches on their heads, and surprised me. I really enjoyed the story a lot, and now cannot wait to start reading her Assassin books.
George RR Martin -- the story itself wasn't as compelling for me as THK, but it gave a lot of good background material on Westeros, such as the Blackfyre Rebellion, and glimpses of what the realm was like before the Field of Fire... sort of confirms what I have long suspected -- the Targs were both a blessing and a curse to Westeros, and most of the people in that family seem run to one extreme or the other -- brilliant or mad...
Orson Scott Card -- its been a long time since I read his Alvin books, and this story is a nice reintroduction to them. I know he has a new Alvin book out lately, perhaps I should reread this series...Alvin and some of the other characters are very likeable, though the slavery aspects of some of the books really bothered me the first time I read them...and this story, so far, also seems to deal with slavery. ******************************************************
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