I'm so disappointed---is it just me? Or should I try more?

Her books sounded so perfect for me. I've read, in the last week "Child of a Rainless Year"--thought it was totally boring for the first two-thirds, which had none of the fantasy elements I like. The last third was OK, but that's a lot of wasted time. Then I read "Thirteen Orphans,", same thing; I felt like I was reading a textbook on Chinese mythology---which was fine to a point. But it seemed like she forgot a plot.

Her books sound great in synopsis, but when you read, it seems like something is missing.

I usually love contemporary/urban fantasy, or high epic fantasy.....

I just gave up on Through Wolf's Eyes.  I was reading about 5 pages a day and didn't care to pick it up, so I just posted it here.  It's just kind of boring. :P

I really loved Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls.  I did not like the wolf books. 

I just gave up on Through Wolf's Eyes.   -me too.  I read the back cover of her books and want to like them but it just doesn't happen.  I did like Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls  but I think that was because it's such a different storyline.

and 13 Orphans -but I play mahjong

I'm having the same problem with Green Rider by Britain I want to like it but I can't seem to get beyond  the first few pages.  I am going to give that one another try.  People seem to really enjoy that series.

Well, I've enjoyed all her "Wolf" books, but haven't read any of her others...

Another vote for Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls - still one of my all time favorites, and I liked her Arathor books, but nothing of hers has hit me right since.  I made it through the first couple of wolf books before I realized I wasn't really enjoying them, finished Child of a Rainless Year and liked parts of it but for the most part just slogged through it, then finally gave up on 13 Orphans.

i liked the first 2 or 3 Wolf books, but then the series got a little weird.  i read the rest, but when i was done i got rid of all but those first ones.  i liked Smoke and Mirrors, a sci-fi novel.

i hated the pyramids one.  i'm not even going to try "Child of a Rainless Year", and i don't know about "Thirteen Orphans" but i do have Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls and another one on TBR to try at some point.

You make me worried.  I just got Child of a Rainless Year because it sounded totally like my kind of thing.  Now, I'm afraid to read it.  Ah well, if I don't like it I can console myself wtih the thought that at least I didn't buy it.

Changer is my favorite book of hers, with Brother to Dragons, Companions to Owls being next.

I gave up after the first two Wolf books too. I just can't put my brain into Politics when I'm reading Fantasy.