2007-03-24 
 

herald mage

I recently reread Mercedes Lackey's Herald Mage trilogy and was a bit surprised how much I enjoyed myself. Not because I hadn't liked the books the first time around. I remembered myself quite enjoying the experience. At the same time, I recall wishing that the tale had either ended a bit differently or allowed the characters happiness earlier on. I had also been disappointed in the way the author treated sex. As if the camera shifted focus from couple to crackling fire...and faded out. (At the time, I had just come out and wasn't quite as experienced as I wanted to be. The vagueness frustrated me.)

This time, because I'm older and less tied to certain romantic ideas, I fell more easily into the ending and the long path they took to get there. As for the sex, I've certainly had enough experience since then. The allusions made were adequate enough for me to draw my own conclusions about what was going on just off page.

Labels: dose of mikey, random review, reading

* posted by me at 9:33 PM

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