And then I read Havemercy, because when I still do not have a laptop I take all the advantage of Amazon free two-day shipping I can get. I do not think I like it better than Shadow Magic--they're very similar structure-wise, but Shadow Magic has the benefit of actually showing the Evil Empire that Our Heroes were fighting in the first book, which ( Read more... )

So in my laptop-less funk of Well What Am I Going To Do All Day Now, my friend S let me borrow a book that she had just finished. It was, she said, actually a sequel, but since it was about completely different characters and took place in a different country you did not really need to have read the first book to understand it. It was also, she ( Read more... )