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This is turning in to one of my favorites series'. I mean, other than LotR, Narnia, and The Dark Tower (Stephen King).

Jacqueline Carey's writing is amazing, though I'm not usually fond of first person. She does it well, and I've fallen in love with the characters, the world, the backstory, the mythologies, and the storyline itself.

Its got sex, politics, espionage, magic, Gods, demons, philosophy, life-lessons it would do well to remember in your own day-to-day, murder... So many elements, so many twists and turns. Its unpredictable, almost 95% of the time, and when it is predictable, its usually very minor things, or inconsequential things (or at least, they may seem inconsequential to me now, I'm only on book three of six, and there's a seventh on the way I'm told, sometime this year).

And when I say I love the characters, I mean I love all of the characters. From a technical point of view, they are well very well written, from the leading lady to the smallest of background characters in the marketplaces. Because of this, they are so believable that I find myself wishing I could converse with them simply to have someone of my own intellectual level to converse with! Especially the main character Phedre. I'm particularly in love with Phedre. <3

So my purpose to this thread is to find out who's read it, and what you've thought of the series. Or at least, if you've read Kushiel's Dart, what you thought of it.

Oh, I hope people have liked it as much as I have. Its absolutely fantastic. And I'm picky as all hell, so for me to say that about a book I just randomly picked up because it sounded good in the book store is pretty strange.

I hope you do! It starts out with Kushiel's Dart, and you should be able to find where it goes from there. Hehe. 3nodding The characters are wonderful.

Oh yeah? Who's that one by? I'd like to check it out next time I'm in a book store.

Which books in the Kushiel series did you read?

I dunno. The whole series had me riveted. I'm buying the other books, too, the ones about Imri and such. It held my attention, and Carey is the only author other than Stephen King who has been able to make me believe their characters so much that I laugh and cry with them. I've read a lot of books, including works by Piers Anthony, Jack Whyte, Mercedes Lackey, Peter Straub, Sara Douglass, Jo Clayton, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Terry Prachett, and CS Friedman. Among some two to three hundred other books. And of all the authors I've read, King and Carey are my two favorites. But everyone has different views and opinions, and so one may not feel the same about a particular book as another might. Understandable.