4.12 avg rating — 253,376 ratings

"Well even this first book is pretty derivative, poorly written, and overlong -- but it goes way downhill even from this inauspicious start."

3.77 avg rating — 101,496 ratings

"First book is utterly derivative of LOTR, but it has some decent narrative drive -- 2nd and 3rd books are worse and worse. Haven't gone any farther..."

3.72 avg rating — 49,842 ratings

"First trilogy is inventive and intense enough to make up for writing; second trilogy is trying; third is...unbearable"