Fantasy books, stories, ＆c

I'm reading Feist and Wurts' Mistress of the Empire. When I started reading Feist's Riftwar series in the 1990s as a teenager, I explicitly skipped this Empire trilogy because I wanted to continue with the Kingdom of Isles heroes I liked a lot. After reading most of the rest of the series, I forgot all about the Empire offshoot.

Now, decades later, I found lots of positive reviews about this Empire trilogy in particular on the Internet, so I started reading them. I have to agree with these reviews. I still like the first trilogy of the Riftwar series the most, but the Empire series takes second place. The rest of the series, although fun, became a bit repetitive.