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$\"The$ <\/a>The Time of the Dark<\/a> by Barbara Hambly<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

I saw this trilogy has been bundled for the Kindle and realized just how many years it had been since I\u2019d read this book, which I used to reread all the time.<\/p>\n

It begins with a wonderful premise. What if you\u2019ve been having a series of recurring dreams, set in a strange world, where you\u2019re in the middle of a panicking crowd all running from an ineffable horror? Then, one night, you wake up and you are in the middle of the city. It\u2019s no dream. It\u2019s real.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what happens to scholar Gil Patterson. Where Barbara Hambly takes the adventure from there is a great ride.<\/p>\n

You wouldn\u2019t normally think of a comfort book as one where you are fleeing with refugees from amorphous enemies (the Dark) in a parallel universe, where it is always freezing and there is never enough food, where you may never get home again because that might let the Dark into your own world \u2026 but there you go. This is a much loved story that I fell back into last night, thinking \u201cwhy has it been so long?\u201d<\/p>\n

Partly this is because I love Barbara Hambly\u2019s early books. This, as I just discovered, was her first. Gil, Rudy, Ingold, the Ice Falcoln, are all well drawn characters. They are realistic, imperfect heroes, just as the villains are sometimes people we can understand and relate to, despite the fact that one loves to hate them.<\/p>\n

My mind is smoothed to the contours of their world and their struggles. I am really enjoying rediscovering the bits I\u2019d forgotten, such as seeing just how Hambly built in the the underlying story logic through tiny details that show up very early int he book.<\/p>\n

Overall this is really a great adventure and world to visit. I\u2019m glad the Kindle reminded me that these actual books were waiting on my shelf.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"