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Can't begin to say how much I love R.A. MacAvoy. I just finished the first two novels in the Lens of the World series, and she is just excellent. Love her world, her characters, her style, the meandering and the suspense. I can see that she's read Gene Wolfe and Ursula LeGuin, but she's definitely her own thing. Especially love how she works not with made up science of the future but with clearly-understood details of a technology that fits her times--and also like the time she chose to use as the basis for her world. And can't say I've read too many fantasy novels where the hero and heroine both used meditation as a natural part of life.

Can't wait to read the last in the series, but in a way I hate to finish it. But fortunately I haven't read Tea with the Black Dragon so I still have something to look forward to when this is done.