Michelle Sagara

See, that's what I thought. I didn't like the character change or various other things about the later books so I stopped reading them. But I didn't feel like the change was a sharp, authorial-fiat thing that made no sense. It made sense, even if I was disappointed by it. (There are other things that I could criticise the books for -- I do think some things were handled poorly even for what LKH was trying to do -- but this isn't one of them.)