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Owlsight & Owlflight (Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon)

Owlsight; OwlflightMercedes Lackey &Larry Dixon This is not really a new book, but the last time I read it was when I was in 9th grade. My general impression of it hasn’t changed, however — I still have no patience for the way the characters stand around gabbing endlessly to themselves, mental soliloquies like woah. At one point Darian says to Tyrsell, a dyheli who can actually hear this mental roundabout, "I’ll stop woolgathering." It’s about a book and a half and a hundred thousand words too late. If it was an infodump, that would be one thing, because at […]


The Cracked Throne (Joshua Palmatier)

The Cracked ThroneJoshua Palmatier I liked Cracked a lot better than Skewed. The style flows a bit more smoothly, you get some fascinating new insights into the way the Sight and the Throne work, and Varis seems much less of a wet rag. I like the personalities of the original group who created the throne, how they’re saner than the other voices, and present as a guide to Varis — it’s a believable way to teach her certain things that she needs to know but would take far too much time to discover herself. That’s always a problem when you […]