Okay, how can you begin to sum up this fantastic series? Well, it's a cliché — like talking about the new Harry Potter — but if anyone deserves the mantle of the "new Tolkien", I think it's Robert Jordan. Except he's a much better writer (no reflection on Tolkien; he was an...
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Patricia McKillip has written many books, but this trilogy, beginning with The Riddle-Master of Hed is my favorite. They're magical books, by which I mean the writing, the language, is magical.
Can I choose a favorite? Pretty difficult. If I'm choosing a one-off, maybe, Pyramids? And Interesting Times. And … oh dear, now I've started it's hard to stop. Let's leave it there for the moment.
And as far as series are concerned, well, I have a fondness for the Guards books (...
I'm not a horror fan, but I make an exception for Barbara Hambly, whose fantasy novels do tend to be touched with horror (more than touched, sometimes). But I enjoy her writing so much — her style, her people — that, well, all I can say is that despite my avoidance of horror, she's...
Not an inspiring beginning, it might be thought. And yet, somehow, the words reach out and … entrance you. Yes, entrance is the word, I'm sure. I felt quite entranced, the first time I read this book (and, practically unique in my life, I remember exactly where I was when I read these...
