I have a warm, fuzzy affection for those books. I have not read the posthumous one, from 2017, The Painted Queen, because... warm fuzzies. How one author kept track of so many characters and their intermarriages, I don't know. I chart by world-shaking wars and I still dick it up on the regular.

They are currently refusing to believe we are not related. I took it as a moment to re-explain genetic bottleneck.