Do you ever hear about a book, an author, a series…and hear about them and hear about them and hear about them and you start to wonder if perhaps all of the devotion is truly merited? I know that I do. Couple that with an author who writes long novels in a multi-volume series and I begin to waver in my desire to investigate all of the praise.
Such is the case with Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy*. I do not spend a great deal of time on science fiction and/or fantasy news/fan sites, nor listen to podcasts with regularity, and many of the reader-friends with whom I maintain regular contact do not read sci-fi or fantasy, or if they do, have not read Tad Williams. Yet Tad Williams’ name, and this series, have pinged on my radar several times since the start of the year.
It was time to find out why.