Beware, this is a demanding series reading. Many descriptions, a laborious beginning, a universe very (too) complex ... Almost everything is to release this first volume but if you go beyond that, you will be facing one of the most beautiful fantasy trilogy ever. Characters to the very detailed complexity, a griping and original universe, an impossible romance ... All the ingredients to make this series a masterpiece and this is indeed the case. So fans of high-flying fantasy, this series is for you.
The only negative thing I would have to formulate these Pygmalion mania (I went by Lu) to divide the volumes in 2. And yes, The Symphony of Ages is a simple trilogy and not a series of 6 volumes