nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj (nprofile…pfuj) I had a very similar experience, reading Lavondyss as a standalone novel, not knowing it's a part of a cycle, and not the first one. So, I had a special experience of some earlier events and mechanisms of the world — by hearsay, blurred memories, mysteries not-to-be-talked-about, and it really worked well in a book about myths and common memory of land and people, just as if the book itself was a part of the same.
I've read Mythago Wood, the beginning of the series, a few years later, and… have found it too literal in comparison. Although a good story still.
