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The Ladies of Mandrigyn

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

For my next book, I’ve started read­ing Bar­bara Hambly’s The Ladies of Man­drigyn. I’m about halfway through with it and look­ing very for­ward to fin­ish­ing it, as it’s really not that good (so far, it could improve but I’m not hold­ing my breath).

Why so harsh? Well, when I read a book; I gen­er­ally don’t try to ana­lyze it. I just try to let the events in the book wash over me and absorb myself in them. As such, I allow myself to be sur­prised by events that occur later in the book, which if I were ana­lyz­ing it would be obvi­ous. There are sev­eral char­ac­ters that have appeared in the story which are mak­ing it pretty, dang obvi­ous that cer­tain other events will take place later.

I real­ize that sounds vague, but I don’t want to include any spoil­ers in my reviews so you’ll just have to live with it. When I’ve fin­ished the book; I’ll either post another review and let you know if I was right or I’ll come back to this one and add a comment.

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