...And that's J V Jones. Her first trilogy really showed that it was her first published work. It was okay, at best. The writing wasn't polished, the storyline was deeply formulaic, and the pacing was off. So it was readable, but it wouldn't have been something that would have been placed on my must-read again list.

But then she wrote a stand-alone book and the difference was amazing. I describe Brandon Sanderson as having improved leaps and bounds. Julie improves in parsecs...4/?