Heh. The topic for today makes me laugh.
A Book I’ve Read More Than Once
More than once? At least 10, but I think more.
I owned this one, and since my small town library was never open more than 2 days a week during the summer, I did A LOT of re-reading.
Cruel elves, shape-shifting dragons, half-bloods, slavery, bicorns – man, this book had it all.
I last re-read it…probably 10 years ago? When I found out that there was FINALLY A THIRD BOOK.
Did I still love it?
Hell yes.
Sadly, though, there won’t ever be a fourth book. I would have been all over it.
I wonder if there’s Halfblood Chronicles fanfic? [runs off to check]
(Sorry these 30 Day Challenge posts are so short. I’m writing them before I go to bed, instead of being smart and doing them when I wake up. I know, though, that if I don’t do them at night, they won’t get done.)
Mercedes Lackey! I loved the series she did about witchcraft…which I’ve already forgotten the name of? But it was really well-written and I enjoyed it a lot!
I think she had a few magic-y series? But now I’m not so sure and need to go check. ALL THE BOOKS!
I also loved this book back in highschool – nearly 20 years ago for me. I read every Mercedes Lackey book I could get my hands on back then.
Did you ever read the rest of the series? The third book only came out in 2003. I was probably too old to still be reading then, but I liked it anyway.
Nope – never did read the rest of the series. Perhaps I should reread the first and delve into the rest of the series….
I’m planning on re-reading them for the Year of Reading Whatever the Fuck I Want (next year), so if you want to hold off til then, we can read together and discuss?
Ooooo! That could be a lot of fun. I’ll plan on it. Just let me know when.
Excellent, I will!
I don’t think I’ve even heard of these!
Sounds like I missed out!
If you’re at all into this kind of fantasy, I’d recommend them.
Short post or not — sounds like you have a goal to post every day and I think that’s great! My husband enjoys fantasy books (LOTR, etc.) so I’ll recommend this one to him.
Ok, right away, that cover art makes me want to read this book. The dragon’s face…it’s surreally humorous, and reminds me of something, but I can’t quite remember what… And the girl. She looks like an awesome character.
In other news, I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever get through my To Read list in this lifetime…
This is one of those books I bought for the cover art. If it’s as good as I remember, then you probably won’t be sorry if you read it.
Good to know!
Ha! I don’t know that I’ll ever work my way through mine. I could IN THEORY, but I’d have to stop adding things to it.
And that’s not about to happen in this lifetime either
I was completely caught by surprise to see this cover appear in my WordPress reader. I read this book a long time ago and really loved it. I’ve been afraid to reread it because I don’t want to find out that it actually sucks and then be ashamed of my fond memories. I read the second book in the series, but I never got around to reading the third one. I recently acquired this audiobook with the intention of letting my kids listen to it. I might have to listen with them.
Hee, we have a lot of shared reading memories, Tony.
When I last re-read it, I still loved it. I was in my 20s then, I’m interested to see if it holds up in my 30s. I think it will.
Ha… read it…
So I finally got around to listening to these audiobooks. I was annoyed when I found out that they didn’t make an audiobook of the third one, but it just arrived from Amazon. I hope it doesn’t turn out to be one of those abandoned series with no complete resolution. I had to fight to put aside my degree-in-literature judginess to ignore plot holes and just enjoy the clever worldbuilding and the main characters who were developed well. I kinda hated how all the villains were just plain evil in the D&D alignment sense rather than having complex and interesting motivations that made them do evil things. Still the woman who read the audiobooks had a great voice and did a good job with the characters. That’s all I’ve got, but getting back into these books made me think of this post.
I’m planning on re-reading them next month with Nrlymrtl!
I’m glad you were still able to enjoy them. From what I understand, this was the planned ending, but there were talks of a fourth when Norton died, so…that’s not happening anymore.
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