by Michael Scott Rohan
if anyone else is a fantasy buff then i can highly recommend this set.
This is simply the best trilogy I have ever read. It hits all the right fantasy buttons: great back story, great original characters, great story, great mythology, great magic system. Each book is strong and disctinctive in its own right and fits perfectly well into the over all story arc. There is no sense of shoe-horning the story into a trilogy to extend the commercial advantage of a successful 1st book.
This is the only MSR book I have read having given up on a few of his others but this is just perfect. I read all 3 over other year or so and it is always a page turner.
the books are set in an ice age civilisation where the ice itself is the bad guy.
Highly recommended.