Worldbuilding: being faithful to the reader

[Sigyn]

Back to the origins of this topic: Stacer, did you finish the series?  I think that Cart and Cwidder and Drowned Ammet are both very weak books and Crown of Dalemark is a pretty weak book, but I love Spellcoats.  It may help that Spellcoats takes place in a different time period, has no guns, and avoids the major inconsistencies that the other three are rife with.  A lot of Diana Wynne Jones' early works are pretty weak.

[stacer]

Yes, and I really liked it. I've been meaning to write up a review, but then WorldCon came, and now school, and it's kind of faded in my mind. I agree that Spellcoats is the best--both because Jones does a better job with female main characters, and because the magic system seemed more defined.