Mother of Winter (Darwath)

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Summary: weep for darwarth..i do
Review: Again BH throws us into darwarth, a world where anarchy and chaos rule. Society is crushig down, church takes over, with all the terrible consequences that appear only when reason is substituted by faith and prejeduce. The describtion of a once splendid culture now reduced to ruins made my heart cry. You also almost want to cry out in pain for the knowledge, the books that are destroyed. It is as if the ghost of Claude Maniere participated : "... knowledge - written treasure; once found; and now forever lost;

knowledge - yes; but wisdom never; wraiths are paying now the cost..."

But in this environment of hopelessness and despair there is hope, life. The story of Ingold and GIl, Rudy and Sante goes on blooms and makes me long for more

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Summary: Oh yeah! We like this series.
Review: I absolutely loved the original trilogy and have read it multiple times.

Just when you thought there wouldn't be more to add to this series Hambly pumps out another good story.

This is a book in and of its own...it isn't necessary to read the earlier books. But there are reoccuring characters from the earlier books and having read those made this more enjoyable.

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Summary: tedious overdescription annoying
Review: Ya know good stories take many forms but bad ones are remarkaly consistent. Bad stories tend to have either weak characters, poor plot, or too much description. Such is the case of this overwrought hambly potboiler. Why use one adjective when 3 or 4 will do? She constantly goes off track with endless exposition,and bores us with details at best trivial. The end result is a story that steams along at a snails pace en I felt never really engages the reader. I see by the bio that hambly once taught high school. I hope never taught english because any english teacher I know worth their salt would have known better than to overwrite every page in this book!