Comments on: REVIEW: Foundation by Mercedes Lackey

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:05:13 +0000

Oh huzzah!! I really don’t like most of the stuff coming out for young adults these days. I broke my teeth on good high fantasy and classics, and I miss stuff like the Valdemar books and McCaffery’s Harper Hall books.

YUM!

By: readerdiane

readerdiane — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:37:48 +0000

My daughter and I were talking about how much we loved the Arrow books and our next favorite were the Sword & Sorceress books. Maybe they were our favorites because they featured strong females/
I would love to see her take the series on from where she left off because I certainly had some questions unanswered.
Her world building is fantastic. I have read her books in chronological order and published order. I would still start with the Arrow series.

This book was good-stayed up late to finish but not my favorite.

By: SonomaLass

SonomaLass — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:16:08 +0000

Valdemar is a very special place for me — it’s my older children’s favorite fantasy series (my totally identifies with Elspeth, which I try not to take personally, and my son is a Vanyel groupie). I really like Lackey’s world building — the consistency of it, and how she’s able to move into new territory (different cultures, different time periods) and it still hangs together. And things move forward, conflicts get resolved, and lots of couples have very romantic “endings” that don’t end, because the couples have to keep functioning. Unlike some authors I could name (I’d be looking at you, Robert Jordan, but you’re dead).

Lately I’d rather re-read the earlier books than risk a new one (no, not an Owl fan), but I think I’ll take a chance on this one as a present for the kid.

By: anny cook

anny cook — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:26:02 +0000

Well, actually I loved them all. Don’t know what that says about my reading tastes, but I own all the Valdemar books and read them at least once a year–including the OWL books which I really liked. Heh.

By: Mary Winter

Mary Winter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:08:57 +0000

Thank you for your review. Magic’s Pawn was my introduction to fantasy at a very tender age (a hot guy and a horse on the cover, who could lose?), and I fell very much in love. But, like you, grew very disenchanted, especially around the time of Take a Thief. As to the Owl fiasco, well, my cockatiel is Kuari, but um, yeah. :) I have this one on my “to buy to reward myself for a month well done” :) Thanks!!!!!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:49:37 +0000

Ooooh, I’m picking this one up from the library tonight. Can’t wait to read it as it’s been awhile since I read a Valdemar book.

By: Val

Val — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:04:53 +0000

Jia,

It’s out already - called Reserved for the Cat and it’s fun. Very fun. I enjoyed it.

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:43:29 +0000

Mags does use what I interpreted to be “country” dialect, but he’s the only major character to do so. I don’t recall any unusual spellings but I do remember things like “shinies” instead of gems, things like that.

By: orannia

orannia — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:29:48 +0000

Thank you so much Jia! I didn’t know a new Valdemar book was out. I loved them when I was a teen, and every so often I pull them out and re-read them.

Question, one thing that has stopped me from reading the latest Valdemar books was the language used for the dialogue. I found that with Skif’s books his speech patterns were….interpreted by unusual spelling, etc. While this can work for some people I find my overly analytical brain attempts to work out what the word means rather than just reading it, which throws me out of the story. The one thing I love about reading is that I can escape from ‘here’ and go ‘there’. I guess what I’m trying to ask is whether the dialogue in the book flows?

Thank you!

orannia

By: SusanL

SusanL — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:09:35 +0000

Don’t diss The Owl books ! ;)