5/10/2023 0 Comments Winds of fate mercedes lackey![]() ![]() And as she reaches an age to start acting on her own, Valdemar faces a new crisis in the war with Hardorn - their ancient defenses against magic are weakening, faster than the forgetting-about-magic part of it. ![]() So.This is Elspeth's story - Princess Brat has grown up, in several meanings of the term. ![]() That does make it a little hard to review - I have to remember where this book stops, in the story. My vague memory suggests that this isn't actually the worst of the three (and the third is substantially better - I do reread that one sometimes) but the only reason I reread this one is because I am doing A Thing and refuse to cheat. ![]() Tedious, poorly written, overly reliant on As You Know, Bob and magically induced flashbacks to dump way more info than I care about, and with characters that all tend towards the whiny. The mock-romance is annoying, and the whole Destiny thing really wasn't developed enough to be interesting, but the core is there. The Elspeth and Skif chapters are marginally ok - if they were the whole of the book, I'd probably give it three stars. (I have been harsh on some of Lackey's work too, but her failures are in completely different directions.) He's uncredited on these, but his atrocious writing is unmistakable. They're pretty terrible, for the same reasons the Gryphon books are terrible. I customarily skip the Mage Winds books when reading through Valdemar. ![]()
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