[Mercedes-Lackey] Welcome to the Newbies and ..

[Kate George]

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From: <mdennis460 at aol.com>
To: <mercedes-lackey at lists.herald.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Mercedes-Lackey] Welcome to the Newbies and ..


> hi to all,
>
> it has been a while since i have delurked.  welcome to new people i have 
> missed!
>
> i have just finished the first two and started the 3rd  in the Obsidian 
> trilogy. very good! i also like the 500 Kingdoms series so far, though the 
> first one so far was the best.  i have Fortune's Fool but haven't had much 
> time to start it as yet.  hope it is better than the  last one of the 500 
> Kingdoms series.  i really didn't enjoy One Good Knight all that much. 
> thought it was pretty predictable, and but then i have read a good many 
> mythology and fairy tales and caught on to the hits and suggestions in the 
> plot line fairly quickly.
>
> thought the Joust books were pretty good until it went to 4 volumes. 
> seemed the plot got stretched a bit thin into the 4th book and it should 
> have been a trilogy.  still the writing and characterizations style is 
> good, and liked the world building, so it kept my interest.
>
> my favorite series is Misty's Valdemar series, and though i can understand 
> her wanting some time away from it to explore other ideas and universes, i 
> hope she does come back to it and perhaps will give us some enlightenment 
> of how Valdemar was founded, and the establishment  and early days of the 
> heralds.  i also would like to see the legend of Sunsinger, and Windrider 
> Unchained written down in full some time.  i also would like to know what 
> really truly happened to Kethry and Tarma after By the Sword.
>
> i am older than you i think, not too far off Mercedes Lackey's age, so i 
> have been a fan ever since i picked up her first book Arrows of the Queen. 
> i also had previously read some of her short stories set in MZB's 
> universes as they were published before her novels were.   been a SF/F 
> reader since i was 12, starting off with Andre Norton and Robert Heinlein 
> and others.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thebrattycat at yahoo.com
> To: mercedes-lackey at lists.herald.co.uk
> Sent: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 9:30 PM
> Subject: Re: AW: [Mercedes-Lackey] Welcome to the Newbies and ..
>
>
> *shakes off years of dust*
>
> Of the newer books I've loved the Obsidian Trilogy and
> the 500 Kingdoms.  Good characters, good pacing and
> some overall excellent stories.  I didn't like the
> Joust books much, they were ok just not what I was
> craving from a Misty book at the time.
>
> My first book was Magic's Pawn when I was about twelve
> and it got me hooked on the rest of her writing.  My
> favorites now are the Gryphon books, the Alberich
> books, Skif's book and the Magic series.  It would
> probably be easier for me to list the books that I
> didn't like!  I've also gotten my husband hooked on
> Misty and we argue over who gets to read them first.
>
> Strawberry Marshmallow sheep for all!
>
> Amy
>
>
>
>
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