It's weird though, because the Recluse Series caught my eye due to Sweet's distinctive art style, at a point in my life pre-internet, when I only learned about new WoT releases by hounding bookstore employees. I did not really discover WoT via the internet until after WH, whose prologue was the first e-book I ever acquired as well. Anyway, while perusing the fantasy section, that easily-identifiable artwork would always trigger an alert in my head and after seeing book after book turn out not to be WoT, I ended up reading them. If George RR Martin wants to give RJ credit for the laudatory comments giving GoT a boost in initial interest, Modesitt surely owes RJ & Sweet some as well, the latter for having such a notable style that fans of either series might have a hard time not picking up the other one.