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catevari's review
5.0
I’d forgotten how tight and compact a trilogy this is, especially compared to the flabby, overextended trilogies (or more-igies) of the modern era.
Having read Hambly for my a good two-thirds of my lifetime, I can tell this is an early work, but I’d still put it toe-to-toe with most modern fantasy and I spent a lot of time considering how it could be framed into a movie or limited series after Game of Thrones (theoretically) smoothed the way. Not that I expect any such thing, but it would be glorious.
In the last decade or so, I haven’t made a lot of time for rereading old favorites. I also end up not remembering much of what I’ve read. A lot of books are entertaining without being especially memorable to me (the main reason I have a Goodreads account), but this was like visiting old friends, a shared history I remember very well and yet still love and get emotionally involved in, for all that familiarity.
I’m intensely glad Hambly is still writing, and occasionally writing in these universes, even if I’m sad that her SFF doesn’t seem to have the market of her historical fiction. Then and now, she has such lovely things to say.
Having read Hambly for my a good two-thirds of my lifetime, I can tell this is an early work, but I’d still put it toe-to-toe with most modern fantasy and I spent a lot of time considering how it could be framed into a movie or limited series after Game of Thrones (theoretically) smoothed the way. Not that I expect any such thing, but it would be glorious.
In the last decade or so, I haven’t made a lot of time for rereading old favorites. I also end up not remembering much of what I’ve read. A lot of books are entertaining without being especially memorable to me (the main reason I have a Goodreads account), but this was like visiting old friends, a shared history I remember very well and yet still love and get emotionally involved in, for all that familiarity.
I’m intensely glad Hambly is still writing, and occasionally writing in these universes, even if I’m sad that her SFF doesn’t seem to have the market of her historical fiction. Then and now, she has such lovely things to say.
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