Well, haven't done one of these in a while...2003. Inspired by some posting on flaws in both the Mary-Sue communities and others. 1.
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This is the first book in 'The Khaavren Romances,' a series of books that Steven Brust is writing to deliberately echo- in style as well as title and theme- the Three Musketeers series by Dumás. The second book is Five Hundred Years After, and concerns the same characters; the third book (really the first third of a longer novel) is Paths of the Dead, which just came out and concerns the main character's son as well as the original group. All three books are set in the same world, Draegara, as the Vlad Taltos series, but considerably earlier. This means that most of the characters are Draegaran rather than human, which means complicated, which means fun.
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