This is among my three very favorite swords and horses fantasies--The Lord of the Rings, Tale of Fire and Ice (starts with A Game of Thrones) and now Mordant's Need (consisting of two books--The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through). Exciting, romantic, scary, and satisfying! Hurrah for Stephen Donaldson. I just ordered The Last Dark (came out last Tuesday), the last of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. If he destroys "the land" in this book, I will never forgive him! The title sounds ominous, but the saga I have just finished gives me hope.
I have now started Narcissus in Chains, Book 10 of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. She spends the first chapter catching her audience up with who Anita is and what her present status is in both her personal life and the world of work. This would be boring for people like me who have read all of the previous ones, except for the fact that it reads like a comedy routine and makes me chuckle the whole way through. This is good, because knowing her, I won't be laughing much more as the book progresses. In the second chapter, it becomes scary and, by the fifth, it is not only scary, but steamy. I love the roller coaster.
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