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Jul. 3rd, 2007 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyThis week, I finished Sorcery Rising by Jude Fisher and To Light a Candle by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory.
Sorcery Rising is the first in the trilogy Fool's Gold. I found it while browsing a used bookstore with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrpet. It principally concerns a culture clash between a country of people who dress and behave kind of like Norse folks used to, and worship a male god of the sea, and a country of people who are kind of like Middle Eastern folks, and worship a female god of fire. I liked this book, although the number of viewpoint characters sometimes made things a little hard to follow. It was nice to read fantasy that wasn't Celtic. It had a slow beginning and then things really picked up. I'm still undecided about whether to read the sequels - from the reviews I've seen online, most people seem to think they went downhill. Three stars.
To Light a Candle by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory is the second book in the Obsidian trilogy (although I think of it as the Wild Magic trilogy, since that's what the books are about). I'm still impressed by the level of seriousness in these books. They're a bit less trite than much of Lackey's work, imo. On the other hand, the villains feel a bit overdone to me. "We don't just torture children and innocent woodland creatures - we EAT THEM TOO!!" Also, did it really need to be eight hundred pages long? Couldn't we have had just as much fun with four hundred? Three stars, because I still enjoyed it and am now looking forward to the sequel.
Sorcery Rising is the first in the trilogy Fool's Gold. I found it while browsing a used bookstore with
mrpet. It principally concerns a culture clash between a country of people who dress and behave kind of like Norse folks used to, and worship a male god of the sea, and a country of people who are kind of like Middle Eastern folks, and worship a female god of fire. I liked this book, although the number of viewpoint characters sometimes made things a little hard to follow. It was nice to read fantasy that wasn't Celtic. It had a slow beginning and then things really picked up. I'm still undecided about whether to read the sequels - from the reviews I've seen online, most people seem to think they went downhill. Three stars.To Light a Candle by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory is the second book in the Obsidian trilogy (although I think of it as the Wild Magic trilogy, since that's what the books are about). I'm still impressed by the level of seriousness in these books. They're a bit less trite than much of Lackey's work, imo. On the other hand, the villains feel a bit overdone to me. "We don't just torture children and innocent woodland creatures - we EAT THEM TOO!!" Also, did it really need to be eight hundred pages long? Couldn't we have had just as much fun with four hundred? Three stars, because I still enjoyed it and am now looking forward to the sequel.