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Originally Posted by alansplace
then allow me to recommend one that i'm sure you'll enjoy (if you'll disregard that random thing you mentioned), sacred ground by mercedes lackey  |
Second the recommend. It's actually one of Lackey's better books (her writing can be very,
very variable in quality and enjoyability, and I'm saying this as someone who's read most of it and liked quite a lot, despite its flaws).
Though not exactly standalone any more, as there's a sequel novella in the recent
Trio of Sorcery collection that Lackey had out last year or the year before.
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Originally Posted by Nyssa
I wonder if I can find it on Baen....
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All of Lackey's non-elf (and coincidentally better, though
Knight of Ghosts and Shadows which is a freebie on one of the Baen promo CDs is quite good) urban fantasies are published by Tor, unfortunately, which is moderately slow about putting backlist stuff up (and tends to charge the higher prices for it, too).
As for me, I've been re-reading more by
Mercedes Lackey writing in conjunction with
James Mallory, a skim of my 4th or 5th favourite series from her, the "Obsidian" books, for which there will apparently be another prequel trilogy to those coming out next year.
Anyway, I've already re-read
The Outstretched Shadow, which I actually got as a freebie when Tor.com first opened and was giving out free e-books (alas, no longer) and was one of the first new books I ever read when I first got my Kindle last year. Nearly done with
To Light A Candle (in hardcover from the library) and will soon move on to
When Darkness Falls (my own paper copy).
I don't think I'll bother with the "a thousand years later" sequel trilogy even though I went and paid for those, too. That one was rather boring and I didn't like the characters nearly as much and the plotline was kind of a re-hash instead of something new and different emerging from the changed status quo at the end of the original trilogy.