Stealing Magic by Tanya Huff

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Publisher: Tesseract, 1999
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-genre: Swords and sorcery
Rating: 3 1/2 pints of blood

Comments

[aurillia]

I'm very fussy about covers too. This one is, in a word, dreadful. I think Tor is the worst at cover art. Sometimes I really don't want to buy a book because of the cover, I'd rather wait till I was back in Australia to get a nicer edition, even though I have to pay more for it.

I'm reading the first of Tanya Huff's vampire books, Blood Price, and I have to confess I'm struggling to finish it. I think it's the mystery side of the novel. It's a bit slow and nothing much is happening. I've been reading it since November but I just can't seem to finish it. I keep picking up other books instead.

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Fortunately for me, this particular book has been recently re-released with a much better cover. I'll have to order me a copy.

The first Blood book was a little on the slow side. The next ones flow a little better, since the main characters have already been established. Although my very favourite of her books has to be Summon the Keeper. My husband kept giving me funny looks because I'd start laughing out loud.

[morgan_dhu]

I'm also a huge Tanya Huff fan. And by huge, yes, I also have or am actively engaged in acquiring every books she's written.

I love these two characters.

My (recently purchased) edition of Stealing Magic is formatted rather like the old Ace doubles - all the Magdelene stories are on one side, then you flip the book over, and there's all the Terazin stories.

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Magdelene and Terazin are great. But then, that's one of the things that draws me to Huff again and again; she consistently gives me strong, likeable female protagonists. And it makes me sad how rare that is in genre fiction.