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Winds binging storms, 2008-02-26
After reading this ant the preceeding two books of the Winds triligy, I am looking foward to the coninuation of the story of Valdemar and the impending threat form the East. All of Lackey's books have the fight between good and evil as their focus but it is her development of the environment that makes the whole thing great reading.
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Mercedes Lackey Does It Again., 2007-12-17
This book drew me in from the beginning and held me in thrall to the end. Ms. Lackey is superior in fantasy novels. I completely enjoyed this trilogy.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
pretty good, 2004-10-04
In my opinion, Winds of Fury was the best in the trilogy. This is a well written fantasy novel, rated high in the books that i have read, although not the best. Mercedes Lackey did well in her development of the characters and plot. I particularly liked the development of An'desha. With the long overdue end of Falconsbane she skillfully brought in a new character who easily wins the heart of readers. Her use of figurative language in metaphors and similes works well to describe places and events, and her work contains proverbs that tell truths. Although I liked the book and found it believable and well developed, some of the dialogue she uses is a bit awkward. It does not happen often but enough to be noticable. Overall, her message of good triumphing over evil once again works well in her plot, along with the light romantic interludes that give the novel a sentimental quality.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
It was worth reading the first two books for this., 2004-08-29
The first two books were OK at best but this one certainly caught my interest. Instead of being so very ickily sex oriented romance, this one focused on tenderness and you actually liking the couples.
Not to mention - VANYEL!!!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
romantic and suspenseful, 2004-05-16
This was clearly the best of the three in this triology.It had lovely, leisurely romantic interludes plus fast paced action. I was absolutely glued to it.
This trilogy is quite liberal socially. The women are effective warriors and often the leaders while the men typically follow. Gay relationships are accepted as equal with straight ones. One of the lead good guys is gay.
It's really neat how Elspeth and Darkwind work together as a team romantically, magically, and militarily. Sigh. I wish I had a relationship like that. Of course, it's probably just as unrealistic as the magic. Probably the ending is unrealistically happy as well, but then you sort of expect that in this type of book. At least it's not depressing.
I still think there are entirely too many super-powerful mages and adepts running around in the world of these books. You sort of get to the point where you think adepts (the most powerful of the magical people) are normal and everyone else is stunted.
I liked all the beautiful, powerful animals and animal-like sentient characters. They are very rich and diverse.