Wednesday’s reading post is here! I have been really enjoying reading the Darwath series by Barbara Hambly again. This week I finished the second book and am halfway through the third. I have also found out that Hambly has added two more books to the original trilogy, so I have just bought them as ebooks and am looking forward to reading them soon.

The cover on the left is for the ebook that I have just finished, while the one on the right is for the paperback that I have downstairs on the shelf!

Here is the blurb for Barbara Hambly’s The Walls of Air #02 Darwath series:

“Once upon a time, Gil and Rudy lived simple lives.

Until they met Ingold, Gil was an ordinary PhD candidate and Rudy was a drifter, whiling away his life riding motorcycles under the California sun. But wizards have a way of complicating things. Ingold brought them across the Void, where an evil known as the Dark threatened to devour civilization whole.

Civilization’s hopes rested on an infant prince, and to protect him Gil and Rudy had to draw on newfound powers — she as a warrior, he as a wizard. With Ingold’s help they escaped the Dark, and led a hardy band of survivors to a far-away keep, where humanity could be safe for a time.

But now that time is past, they have been found, and there is nowhere to hide from the Dark.”

And this is my response on Goodreads:

When I have finished the third book, which I will write about next week, I will take a break from all of this nostalgia and try something new from the library. I have quite a few ebooks waiting on the library app!

Happy reading to you all!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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Welcome to this week’s post. I have now gone way past my Goodreads target for the year – 50 books. Because I am working my way through old favourites, some of them haven’t registered on my count, so I have actually read quite a lot more.

This week I returned to another favourite from my youth: Barbara Hambly’s Darwath series. I read the first three books in my twenties and it has been interesting to revisit the first one in the series…

I thought I would show you the newer ebook “cover” and an older version as a comparison! Anyway, as you can see, the book I read was Time of the Dark by Barbara Hambly, #01 Darwath Series. Here is the blurb…

“A California medieval scholar is pulled into a far-off magical world—and a fight to save mankind—in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows well the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat. Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil’s world. The student of history is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined.”

And this is my response on Goodreads…

I have had to use a screenshot image above because the usual HTML code wasn’t there. Anyway, you can get the gist. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series before turning to a different book. There are a few in my ebook collection that look interesting.

Happy Reading to you all!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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