I’ve been reading Senta and the Steel Dragon, which comes in a single hard-bound volume.  It contains all seven books so far in print.  Book 0 is a fun little story, filled with foreshadowing and background mostly.  A few people get killed, but no one too important, and the story gets set up for everyone else.  Book 1 is my favorite.  So much happens.  So much is going on– magic, political intrigue, murder, child molesting.  Book 2 is the most fun book, with rampaging dinosaurs in the snow.  Book 3 is more of a coming of age story than the others.  Book 4 is the most magical book, with a lot of spells being thrown around.  The same with book 5, but it is also the culminating events of the entire series as war breaks out.  Book 6 is more personal, more fallout for our favorite characters.  I really enjoy all the books and the characters.  I suppose this paragraph makes me sound egotistical, but I really wrote these books for myself.

I’ve been going over the outline for book 7.  I don’t know when I’ll get to write it, but it should be a good story– momentous, world-changing, like book 5.

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