I loved Ombria in Shadow, merely liked Alphabet of Thorn, and nodded through Od Magic; then I forgot to read new McKillips for a little while.
There are elements of Alphabet of Thorn which were clearly, in hindsight, a dry run for their realization in The Bards of Bone Plain; I can barely remember enough of Od Magic to tell what she might have been trying out in that book, but rushthatspeaks assures me that it really, really wanted to be this one. I wrote about The Bell at Sealey Head when I read it, but I can't honestly recommend it to you. It is almost half of a very good book.
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There are elements of Alphabet of Thorn which were clearly, in hindsight, a dry run for their realization in The Bards of Bone Plain; I can barely remember enough of Od Magic to tell what she might have been trying out in that book, but
The Bards of Bone Plain makes me really happy.