by Barbara Hambly
I loved The Ladies of Mandrigyn, so came to this book with some trepidation, knowing that the only recurring characters would be Sun Wolf and Starhawk. As it turns out, while Mandrigyn is epic fantasy, The Witches of Wenshar is a murder mystery in a fantasy setting; not being a mystery fan, I felt i...
I loved The Ladies of Mandrigyn, so came to this book with some trepidation, knowing that the only recurring characters would be Sun Wolf and Starhawk. As it turns out, while Mandrigyn is epic fantasy, The Witches of Wenshar is a murder mystery in a fantasy setting; not being a mystery fan, I felt i...
Enjoyable Sword & Sorcery bash, with a pretty even mix of the two.
Once again a marvelous look at how women get power in patriarichal societies.
That was fun. It took a while to get used to fantasy world-building. So often the first chapter of a fantasy novel is like learning several weeks of new vocab all at once: blah blah nation this, tribe that, those mountains, this temple, gods and monsters. There's no time to get a sense of what it lo...
Hambly does a good job of showing the characters' love for each other without going over the top. She shows a very real couple.Hambly also makes great use of a cliche with one line - "If wishes were horses, Sun Wolf thought, there'd be horseprints all over my hide".
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