As soon as I get my next Audible credit, I'll start on the first book in the main series. "Listening" is the only way I get any "reading" done these days.

Too late... already finished with it.

 

I'm starting the WOT series with the prequel,

 

Madison Woods

Bad idea.

So I wasn't imagining the similarity then. I'm starting the WOT series with the prequel, and the pub dates on it were after the SOT's first book. It wasn't until I checked the date on the true first book in the series of WOT that I understood what had happened.

As an author, it bothered me incredibly when I found out that other books featured some of (what I thought were) my own plots and character descriptions even though I had never read those other books. As I read more broadly in my own genre, it's becoming clear that it happens quite often. But some of the similarities between WOT and SOT seem to be too close for comfort (sisters of light and dark, mainly). If Goodkind had never read the books of Jordan, then when he found out how close the story lines were he must have felt sick. I hate how he denies there are even similarities, though.

Madison Woods