Fantasy Book Club Series discussion

My apologies! I'm late to the party and I was supposed to be hosting it. It completely slipped my mind. Real life lately has swamped me but the month of May has so many good books for me to get lost in.

I checked out my copy of The Darkness That Comes Before from my local library yesterday. A warning though: I won't be starting this book until I finish S., which is intense and takes all my concentration. It will be a relief to finish it and get back to something that doesn't give me headaches (in a good way) when reading it.

Let us know if you're planning to read this book and this series. If someone else wants to lead while I'm distracted by other books, please feel free to do so.

I dove into this during April and am looking forward to the discussion.

I saw the notification and decided to re-read. Almost finished--going much more quickly than I thought it would.

I read the first book of this series not to long ago. I will be following along with the discussion and jumping in fully with book 2.

I intend to read too...I started to but decided I needed to clear off a few things before I dug in or Id get confused...getting too old!

May read at some point

I read the first book of the series about a year ago - I thought it was ok, and with the group reading the series, I will probably continue along with you guys.

I'm thinking about getting the audio book for this one
But I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to keep up with names and places without some sort of reference to look upon.
Any ideas from anyone who has read it?

Deano wrote: "I'm thinking about getting the audio book for this one
But I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to keep up with names and places without some sort of reference to look upon.
Any ideas from anyone..."

I really struggled with keeping the characters and places and factions straight, so I would try to get copies of the maps and the lists from the back of a print book.

I struggled with the names/places/factions too. I finally just had to let some of them go and figured if they were important I'd see them again and start remembering them.

I just noticed the character analysis threads in this group. Wow, I think those would have helped a lot when I was reading it - what a great idea - and what great summaries so far.

Suzanne wrote: "I just noticed the character analysis threads in this group. Wow, I think those would have helped a lot when I was reading it - what a great idea - and what great summaries so far."

Yes, a big thanks to John for posting those threads.

Yes it's a good idea
If this is done on later books
Could it be that the first post is just an overview of the character
So we don't have to worry about spoilers and can see who is who??

I think they are a little spoilery (the character overviews). Some may depend on how spoiler sensitive you are.

I can definitely say my character analyses were spoilery--they were meant to kick off discussion more than to help people keep characters straight. But for the future, I'm sure we could do something to give people a basic overview of who's who, who you should be paying attention to, that sort of thing.

That would be great john
Thanks

I think they will help me a lot moving forward with the series since it has been awhile since I read the first book.

so I am almost halfway through this one, and see it is a slow and thoughtful read. This is good....lol, but it will take me some time to finish it. am enjoying this!

I really not sure wether to go with this or the cold fire trilogy.
Will it take me the whole book to grasp the characters