1. Authors name Guy Gavriel Kay

2. Series Title: He has written one fantasy serries that I know of. The Fionavar Tapestry. The Sarantine Mosaic is more historical fiction, with some fantasy elements. Both are enjoyable. But IMO his stand alone works are even better.

3. Current Books in order in the series or stand alone

Tigana (The best stand alone fantasy I have read).

Best of the rest: These are more histoical fiction with fantasy elements. The Lions of Al-Rasan, A Song for Arbonne, and Under Heaven.

4. Target Audience Adult.

For me be worst aspects of RJ's WOT is that following LoC, the books stopped reading like novels and became increasingly serials. This was apparently by design. As none of the books following LoC seemed to be not much of a clear beginning, middle, and end of a story within the same book. Story lines were left to play out over the course of multiple books. This format simply did not work for me. Even events like, for example, the cleansing of the taint seemed sapped of their dramatic significance because of the the general lack of build up. Thankfully, this has been largely resolved under Sanderson.

I fully agree that too many of the relationships charachters are having just don't work for me either. I think the problems I am having stem from two factors. First the PoV as plot device is designed to keep us in the dark about character's motivations and not to show us how they really feel. It is poorly suited to capture these details in a cast this size. There are far too many PoV characters, and far too many irrelevant supporting roles. Perversely every single character introduced in book 1, even those that seem totally superfluous, seem to come back to do some entirely forgettable deed which we have to read about later on. As a result far too much happens "off screen" for the main characters. Its not uncommon to lose track of main characters for whole books or more. Strangely, the one romance that actually is well developed and that makes sense to me where the partners truly do seem to love each other, Perrin and Faile, seems to be the least popular among fans.

The second larger problem with characterisation is that RJ has chosen a surreal parody May Sue all-star team cast of characters. The wheel of time is supposed to be a tale about the ultimate struggle between light and dark for the fate reality. Yet, the single main character who seems to die can't stay dead.