Welcome to MobileRead, Kyrddis! Your username makes me want to start in on that
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover collection I got from Fictionwise.
I'm currently doing "guilty pleasure" catch-up nostalgia reading with a couple of latest works in continuing series, all in hardcover from the library.
Finished
Dragongirl, by
Todd McCaffrey, which is his continuation of his mother's Pern series. Frankly, it reads like middling-quality AU fanfic and this particular installment really didn't do all that much to advance the overall plot. Some character stuff that will probably play off in the next book,
Dragonrider, which the blurb in the back says will be co-written with Anne McCaffrey.
Also recently read book 2 of the new Valdemar Foundation series,
Intrigues by
Mercedes Lackey. More of the same really. Her writing's really fallen prey to her personal clichés and authorial tics, and it was very annoying the way the main character kept speaking in dialect throughout. You'd think that being Chosen and taking lessons in Haven would have smoothed out his accent at least a little.
Mind you, there was this awesome scene where the protagonist was basically feeling sorry for himself out loud (instead of continually through the narrative as usual), and another character did this great rant along the lines of "Wahhh, poor little orphan slave-boy feels all sadly about himself because he got taken away from his miserable old life by a magic horsie to live in a palace [okay, actually the stables attached to the palace, but that's by his own choice] and have magic mind powers and be a confidant of powerful advisors to the King and make friends with pretty high-born girls and be a hero for rescuing someone's life and now obnoxious idiots he shouldn't be paying attention to aren't talking to him because they don't like him any more and this is the like, the worst thing that could possibly happen; other people have problems too, and more important ones, CRY MOAR!!!!!"
But then he apologized for it later.
Now on Lackey's
Trio of Sorcery, a collection of 3 original novellas which continue her Diana Tregarde and
Sacred Ground urban fantasy books, with third one starring a new character. Mildly entertaining and nice to see some more of characters I liked.
Not her best work, but they've these great introductions explaining how people didn't have all this nifty stuff we take for granted back then and Things Were Different and/or how her characters don't carry cellphones because back in the 90s, they very expensive and were the size of a brick and that's why they just can't call each other when the plot twists on them so don't complain to her about stuff like that,
Techonology Marches On.