The World of the Five Gods, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Damnit, Bujold ambushed me. There I was, minding my own busines, finishing up L. E. Modesitt's Corean Chronicles, when the handy little "You might be interested in this..." algorithm threw The Physicians of Vilnoc at me.
Ah-hah, says I. I've been reading fantasy series for a little while now, I know better than to fall for that.
What's the first book in the series? Penric's Demon? Hmm...
Reader, I looked up a few days later and I'd read all of them. 8 novellas, three longer novels. I stopped myself when I then went on and bought the first book in The Sharing Knife.
After I read it, of course. But nope, says I, I won't fall for that one again. Nope, I'm stronger than that, I'll save myself from Bujold's wicked powers this time, I'll put the rest of the Sharing Knife on hold, I will. Save it up, like the next bin of ice cream in the deep freeze.
I just need to clear my head, really. Read some short stories. A couple of other novels by other authors that have been waiting in my queue. Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll be standalones...
I didn't get very far, reader, before I got ambushed by another series. But that's a story for a later date. For now, I tip my hat to Lois McMaster Bujold and say thank you for hauling me back into a stretch of reading two and three books a day for a while.
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