A review by bookhero6
The Time of the Dark by Barbara Hambly
4.0
Oh Barbara Hambly, how I adore thee.
You are so nicely easing my way into this whole SciFi thing. It took me a while to get intoyhis book which I attribute to two things: I was reading it on my iPad in bed and it really isn't a book to fall asleep to (it is a book you need to be wide awake for,) and I am still very new to this whole sci fi thing. But at every step I loved it.
The only part of this book that suffers is that it is the first in a three part series. It is an intro and it feels like one. But about 75% of the way in I realized where my reader tension was coming from and actually felt the build inherent in the narrative. This is just the beginning. We have two more books before it is concluded. And that is good and exciting for me. And I think most of my growing pains for this book came with the fact that the build was at odds with the length. I think if these books were published today as opposed to 30 years ago it would have been published as one novel, instead of three. And so the narrative would have been complete.
Other than that, I am totally excited for where it is going and I am totally excited that I have the next two books in paperback so that I can devote my non sleepy self to it.
You are so nicely easing my way into this whole SciFi thing. It took me a while to get intoyhis book which I attribute to two things: I was reading it on my iPad in bed and it really isn't a book to fall asleep to (it is a book you need to be wide awake for,) and I am still very new to this whole sci fi thing. But at every step I loved it.
The only part of this book that suffers is that it is the first in a three part series. It is an intro and it feels like one. But about 75% of the way in I realized where my reader tension was coming from and actually felt the build inherent in the narrative. This is just the beginning. We have two more books before it is concluded. And that is good and exciting for me. And I think most of my growing pains for this book came with the fact that the build was at odds with the length. I think if these books were published today as opposed to 30 years ago it would have been published as one novel, instead of three. And so the narrative would have been complete.
Other than that, I am totally excited for where it is going and I am totally excited that I have the next two books in paperback so that I can devote my non sleepy self to it.