<i> Mordant's Need</i> was recommended to me by a therapist I went to a number of years ago, because he thought I would identify with Terisa. I didn't, but I loved the books and have re-read them repeatedly over the years.
At the time, he also mentioned TCTC, describing it as a story of a man who was transported to another world and immediately raped a girl because he thought the world wasn't real and that nothing he did in that world would matter. Naturally, that wasn't a particularly attractive description of the book (to me, anyway ), and, in retrospect, not even particularly accurate, IMHO. Therefore, I put off reading the books for many years.
Right after I took my nursing boards, to get my RN license, I headed straight for the bookstore for something to read, so I wouldn't spend the weekend wondering whether I had passed or failed. I headed straight for the scifi/fantasy section, as is my habit, and my eyes fell on the TCTC series. I figured that, since I loved <i> Mordant's Need</i> so much, I might well enjoy TCTC, in spite of that unfortunate description of the book that I had heard. I bought all three books of the First Chronicles, and, in spite of being sometimes (often!) annoyed by TC found I couldn't stop reading. So of course, I went on to the Second Chronicles, and have been trying to hook other people ever since.
~MsMary~ "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"<i></i>
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