Character Driven Series

[darthslacker]

I love series books. While I do enjoy the epic "multiple characters battle across 13 installments to defeat the foretold evil,"  my favorite style of series are ones that really focuses on the character and allows them to grow. (This is assuming I like the character in the first place.) This isn't to say their can't be an "epic evil" but there has

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[kali_kali]

I'm a fan of Dresden Files. Though the series that I really love in this regard is the Kushiel's Legacy series. It's got a lot of kinky sex in it, and I'm not sure if that is your thing, but there is an amazing amount of character growth and whatnot (and unlike Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, the sex does not dominate the story, and is never superfluous and random).

[darthslacker]

I actually started reading the series, I thought it had some intruiging ideas-the society based on beauty and perfection, the power of a courtesan. etc. I just didn't really like it because, well the sex. It seemed like it was everything. And where as it was important and not random LKH "eww she got a new superpower/sex partner" type of deal, it was just too much for me.

I got really tired of hearing the "love as thou wilt" quote blathered on about endlessly-especially when it seemed to be used in conjuction with stuff that wasn't love. If its lust, fine. But call it that and don't slap a "holier than thou label" on something to make it look better.

From what I did read, I was impressed by how the main character got a lot stronger-mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I thought it a crappy dilemna to be basically a god-driven, masochistic, nympho with a profession/reputation to maintain and be in love with a rather puritan like knight.

er...sorry for the harangue. :D