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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 515831" data-attributes="member: 354">That's Vanyel for you. He _IS_ a whiny little bugger in the first book. He isn't in the next two. His character developed beyond that. In the second book he's heroic. In the third he's downright noble.The third book is really depressing, yes, but he's not near as angsty as in the first... until the very end, where some really, really, really bad stuff happens to him. Arrows of the Queen was the first book Lackey wrote... her style was a bit different then. I didn't enjoy Arrows of the Queen all that much, either.And you do have a point... her stores do tend to come off (sometimes) like a romance novel... That's not always true, of course, but it does happen sometimes. She definetly writes more about the people and less about the whiz-bang of the world, that's true. But you really shouldn't judge Lackey just by Magic's Pawn... It's a book of pure angst. No denying that. It's not indicative of her work as a whole.If you don't think you like Lackey, I urge you to go find a copy of "Storm Warning" in a used bookstore and give it a read. It's one of her better series. Some parts of it won't make a ton of sense if you aren't familiar with the Mage Winds series... the characters of Elspeth, An'Desha and Firesong, for example... but I (stupidly) read it before the Mage Winds series, and still managed OK.</blockquote>