NightIntent
I read Fire Bringer first. Got it in hardcover, for some odd reason, long, long, long before I ever read The Sight. I waited like three years for The Sight to come out in paperback, because I didn't want it badly enough to get it in hardcover (plus I was short of money a lot of the time). But I still like The Sight better. Though in both, all my favorite characters die. And I end up hating the characters I liked at the beginning. Like Rannoch and Fell. I liked both of them in the beginning, but by the end of the books I hated both of them. I don't even know why, they just annoyed me.
Its really wierd but everything you said, is strangely exactly what happened with me. Like I got fire bringer first and in hardcover, and waited for the sight. And I pretty much hated all my favorite characters by then end as well.
haha
I love the books though.