The Witches of Eileanan is my favourite fantasy series. I have read this series and reread it so many times that book one fell apart and became four books (which was why I was so happy to see it on the Kindle finally and purchased that immediately). Like other reviews I have read about this series, I purchased the first book on a whim (thought the cover was pretty, I don't normally do that though) but I did not come around to reading it for a couple of years after I purchased it. I was immediately hooked once I started reading it and I couldn't put it down. I had to buy the rest of the series right away.
I know a lot of reviews complain about the language but soon enough you are used to the style and I think it helps to engross the reader into the world and the story. I love the series for the characters and tale that is well-developed and intricately woven. The pace is perfect and not rushed or too slow. Kate writes so eloquently and is not bogged down in details but manages to balance detail, character development, plot, and action almost poetically. I love that in her books, you can tell that the author Kate is an avid reader herself and is educated in her profession as well; she gives the reader what she too would enjoy with a story that is told by someone who is passionate about writing.
I don't want to give any spoilers to the series but I must say that it is easy to fall in love with the characters. Kate has a way of writing her characters so even the antagonists you cannot hate. She creates her characters in such completeness that you can see all sides of the person and that there is not complete evil or good rather people that have lived through circumstances that has led them to there path, you fall in love with the so-called "villains" too and understand that it is about perspectives.
A word of caution however, the initial series is six books with the fourth told from a different character that the other five. After the initial series, there is a follow-up series called Rhiannon's Ride that takes place about 15 years later. They are good in themselves, it is a bit difficult to read as some of the characters you have grown to love change or die in this later series. The other problem I found was the first two books were well written and were a good read (although some characters were a bit annoying) however the third book felt rushed. Like so many authors do with ending a series, too much was crammed into one book, details were missed, and a fourth book or a longer third book should have been written. Still worth the read though.
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