I wish I had saved The Hero and the Crown.
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I wish I had saved The Hero and the Crown.
I knew I wouldn’t like this book, but I kinda had to know how the series ended.
Classic fantasy classically middle-of-the-road.
Another one of those conflicting books.
Everything is mediocre yet hard to give up on.
Not Barbara Hambly’s best work, but it’s still Barbara Hambly.
Do you love reading about awful people? Then boy-howdy, The Nonborn King is for you!
Hey there! Do not read this review unless you’ve read The Many Colored Land. As this is book two of The Saga of Pliocene Exile, it’s impossible to write a review that doesn’t spoil The Many Colored Land.
This is one of the best books I've read in years, and I am utterly baffled that The Many Colored Land didn't really survive in the collective memory, despite being nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Demon Drums is my least favorite sort of reading experience because there’s so much I wanted to like, so much potential, but, with one exception, I don’t think it ever got there.
Barbara Hambly is what started me down my Forgotten Female Fantasy path, so it only seems right that I read a book of hers that I didn’t know existed: a murder-mystery urban-fantasy set in Victorian London. [...]
The Wizard’s Shadow is, both at its best and at its core, a story about a fantastical, medieval odd-couple. Except they have to share a lot more than living quarters.