So I just finished the second of these Quartets, and I believe, there's also a Song of Tear Trilogy as well, but I haven't read those. Anyway, I thought these books were decent, but not overly amazing. I really like some parts, hated others, and the rest fell somewhere in between. I really really liked most of the first quartet, but the second one took a bit for me to get into it. I hated the first half of Geomancer, but once I got into Tetrarch it got way better, I was however very disipointed with the ending of Chimera, which ins really a cliff hanger, and is set up to begin the song of tears trilogy. That's one of the main reason's I liked the View from the Mirror Quartet better, The Way Between Worlds wraps up nicely, and there is no need for a continuation, all though he did leave room for it. There is far too little resolution for the end of chimeara for my taste, burt I guess I'll havew to read song of tears to find out more. HAs anyone else read these, please Iike to read your thoughts, and If you want to talk about Song of Tears, maybe it would be best to hide them by changeing the color, so others can read the posts, since there are only spoiler warnings for the first two quartets.