I am so vulnerable to this woman and her books. I told myself, “No, you will not get sucked into reading Shaman’s Crossing. No. NO!” And ha. I have been. I’m not past the point of no return (the point at which I cannot — cannot — turn aside from reading a novel until it’s done because the stakes/characters/events are such that I’m so hopelessly lost to the world I need to get some sense of finality before I drag myself away from it for any length of time.) Usually once I pass that point in the first book of a series… I’m lost to the series. I chafe.

Luckily I’ve yet to reach that point with Shaman’s Crossing. I think I was lost two words in with the Tawny Man trilogy (oh, Fitz!) but it took 2 chapters in Ship of Magic (the first of the Liveship Traders Trilogy) for me to be lost there. I don’t recall what the point was with Assassin’s Apprentice (the first book by her I read, also the first book she wrote set in the world of the Six Duchies, in which three of her trilogies are set). It might have been the first chapter — the whole idea of little six-year-old Fitz being brought before his uncle as the bastard of the King-in-Waiting — how interesting! That, and I really liked the font (Goudy Old Style, I think).

(For some reason, Times or Times New Roman family fonts like that used in Shaman’s Crossing make getting into a book slightly harder for me. The Centaur family fonts — used often these days with YA fantasy with female protagonists (A trend?) — are also addictive, as is my personal favorite, Adobe Garamond.)

Anyway. I’m… part way through the fifth chapter of twenty-four. Admittedly I could keep going, but I haven’t yet been possessed by the maniacal hand of the reading devil (or what have you). That, and I have this pressing urgency to write today, probably to make up for the things I’ve been doing other than writing this week that have kept me from hitting that mental quota this week.

Back to the grindstone!

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