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4.0 out of 5 stars
Buy all 5 now and save yourself a trip, Mar 31 2002
The Darwath Series, composed now (year 2002) of 5 books, begins with "The Time of the Dark," a rather simply-worded kind of title, but that has a gripping story.Imagine if, one day, all throughout the world, hordes of black floating monsters poured out of well-known, and long-thought-abandoned caverns to feed on us and destroy humanity? Imagine they would depart at daybreak only to return the next night, and the next. This is precisely the situation this alternate world is in that Gil and Rudy are dragged into. As humanity and all of civilization crumbles, the survivors flee to the ancient Keeps, fortresses made 3000 years in the past and inpregnable to any force to face the Dark hiding in shadows. I read the trilogy when I was a teenager and then 12 years later returned to these books only to find out that Hambly had written an additional two books. What a joyful discovery. My only misgiving is that there is not enough written. Hambly could write as many books as Robert Jordan on this one universe and just start to flesh out all the characters, situations, details, THINGS, etc. I hope before she can't write anymore - gets too old or whatever - that she manages to do so. I guess someone else could add on to her stories about Darwath, but if it doesn't come from Hambly, it wouldn't be the original story.
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