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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 513640" data-attributes="member: 354">What do you find so objectionable about Lackey? She's actualy one of my favorite fantasy authors, and (IMO) even if you don't like her writing, her world is pretty cool. I didn't mention her here because I wouldn't say her works are "great literature" or anything... they are just fun.Except maybe for The Last Herald Mage... that series pretty much managed to depress the heck out of me time and time again. Still, I do see Vanyel as being both one of the most (at the same time, strangely) heroic and one of the most human characters she has wrote about.One thing I really like about Lackey is that her world is pretty darn vast and has a long timeline... You get the feeling that the world had a really long timeline even in Urtho's days, and that's generaly considered practicly pre-history during the Reign of Selenay. Heck, even during the Reign of Roland. And that her stories either shape or are shaped by her own legends... IE, how important Vanyel and Lavan were to the state of Valdemar during Selenay's reign, seeing how the war between Urtho and Ma'ar went down, seeing how the war would have later reprocussions even thousands of years later... how the religions too have history... the church of Vykandis being a prime example of that, but there are others.</blockquote>