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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Barbara Hanbly
Genre : Fantasy
Barbara Hambly’s fantasy books have always been some of my favorites. She was writing fantasy in earlier years before she started her Benjamin January mystery series set in 1933 in New Orleans. For me, “book storage” is as important as food storage. If I was trapped at home for any duration, I could enjoy her books again and again. The series about Sun Wolf, a well-known mercenary and his 2nd in command, Sky Hawk starts with the Ladies of Mandrigyn who poison Sun Wolf, kidnap him and manipulate him into training the ladies of Mandrigyn to fight so they can free their husbands from the mines of the evil wizard Altiokis. The series continues with The Witches of Wenshar and third book, The Dark Hand of Magic.
Full of delightful metaphors, richly-developed characters, mystery and magic, Barbara Hambly is a storyteller for the ages.
“And then, after black wanderings, he was aware of moonlight in a place he had never been before and the far-off surge of the sea. The warrior’s clothing was unfamiliar, the quilted, shiny stuff of the Bright Coast. The scarred boots he knew. The bent head, pale and bright as the moonlight, he could have mistaken for no other. She whispered, ‘Chief, where are you?’ ‘I’m in Mandrigyn. I’m dying—don’t look for me further.’ He felt himself slip from her, drawn back toward the bleak and storming darkness.”
“Clear and sharp, the vision returned to him of his own hands scared o the bone from grasping the molten fire of his dreams. It hurts to let the old life go, to release what he had striven for and taken pride insincere he was a boy old enough to wield a child’s sword. If left him with a stricken feeling of emptiness as if with the sword he had given up an arm as well. He looked hip. ‘There’s be a woman coming here. She’s looking for me. Tell her . . . Tell her to meet me in Wyrnde, before the summer’s end.'”
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