[@Rhymer] Haha, well done! You can look forward to nine more books of roughly similar length, and a great deal of confusion. But I assure you, all the words are worth it for the world and the history of a completely new universe. There are some descriptions you can skim, I'll give you that for free, ;) :P He does lay the exposition on a little thick sometimes. It's the characterization and the exploration of human and inhuman thinking that I really like. But apart from that, there's magic, gods, dragons, wizards, and epic adventures. A great deal of fun and shenanigans. Also of death, destruction, horror and depravity, but it is a story about a vast war, so you get your mix of heroes and villains and people caught in the middle. They all get their chance to win the reader over though, so it's quite interesting to know who people wind up liking and who they don't.