XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: Taemon@zonnet.nl   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
      
   > Taemon wrote:   
   >> I'm currently reading her "In Conquest Born", awful title, awful   
   >> cover, too. But a very good read. Apparently a trilogy - I don't   
   >> know if it stays good for three books. But I haven't read a bad   
   >> Friedmann yet.   
      
   Not a trilogy, I got that wrong. Good, it's packed and running to a natural   
   end. SF too, by the way.   
      
   > I finished /The Madness Season/ (SF, not fantasy) and thought it even   
   > better than /Black Sun Rising/.  Everybody and their dog has tackled   
   > the vampire myth - and I've read most of them - and really doubted   
   > I'd ever again encounter a novel approach.  I'm really impressed.   
      
   Can't find her in my e-book shops... and they don't have that in the   
   library. Will have to go find a dead tree version somewhere.   
      
   >> Not the next to books in that series, though. Strange, that. The   
   >> Innocent Mage was like that too, pretty good part one, emberrassing   
   >> part two.   
   > We don't have that in our library.   
      
   Don't bother, it's quite good fantasy but nothing really special. And the   
   Bad Guy is zero dimensional.   
      
   T.   
      
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