Its called Chronicles volume 1: Dragons of Autumn Twilight by: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
That was the first book that I ever bought. Loved it then, and just recently went back and re-read the entire series. It's quite possible that I liked it this last time through because of all the memories of reading them back when I was in 5th grade, but I still think that they're great books. Some awesome characters in there, and they're pretty quick reads to boot.
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I just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora, I can't decide if I want to read the next one or not. Has anyone read the second book? I think it is called Red Skies Over Red Seas.
I read that one ReaderMom. The writing was very similar, the vulgarity was just as rampant, and there were a few story-telling devices that he used that I didn't care for. Didn't like the way the first one was put together. Red Seas was guilty of hiding information from the reader on purpose to build tension in a couple scenes, and after the cool ending of the first one, the ending of the second was a big let down for me. That being said, the story was still fun; he fleshed out a world a bit more, spent a lot of time on pirate ships (which was fun to read for a change), and in the end left me with a feeling much similar, if maybe just a bit less content, as the first one. The third comes out in March supposedly, and there are a proposed seven in the series. I'll probably read the third one, if just for the fun of it. These days I'm not finding much that is perfect, but a lot of stuff that does a decent job of making me a happy reader.
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Finished Sword from Red Ice by JV Jones. It was essentially an exercise in world building, and bit of character development (but just a bit). Wasn't too happy about that. Especially after learning that instead of this being the final volume in a trilogy, she's stretched it out to five books now. Don't know if I'll read the fourth. Definitely won't be high on the priority list though.
Just picked up Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's supposedly part of the New Weird genre of fantasy. And I'll definitely give it that--it's weird. At this point, I'm hoping that there's more to it than just the weird. He's gearing up to be a pretty good writer in my mind at this point.