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Lucy
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“I'm not sure what tempted me to pick up this book 20 years ago, but I read it as a teenager, loved it, and then never continued with the series. As an adult, I made the decision to reread several books that I loved as a teen to see if they held up. For Magic Time, it's a sort of mix of feelings.
I really do enjoy this book but there were a few drawbacks to it that I'm sure have a lot to do with it being the first book in a series. There is a lot of introductions. It's a pretty large cast of characters throughout the book, some of them major and some of them minor, and we get introductions for all of them regardless of the weight they leave on the story. We bounce between POVs with little time to get settled into a particular character. While it makes sense for the story's pacing, it does make it difficult to build a relationship with the characters until the jumps start to spread out more. The dialogue is very well done. It flows well between characters and each character has a unique voice. I really, really like Cal and Colleen. They are such well done characters.
The pacing of the plot is slow. It plods along at a steady but slow pace that can make interest difficult to hold on to. Like I said, this is very much the first book in a trilogy. A lot of information is doled out and a lot of the time it is more told instead of shown which is a detriment. All that to say, I am looking forward to the next installment finally. I guess leaving a cliffhanger for 20+ years is not ideal.”
Lucy
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“I'm not sure what tempted me to pick up this book 20 years ago, but I read it as a teenager, loved it, and then never continued with the series. As an adult, I made the decision to reread several books that I loved as a teen to see if they held up. For Magic Time, it's a sort of mix of feelings.
I really do enjoy this book but there were a few drawbacks to it that I'm sure have a lot to do with it being the first book in a series. There is a lot of introductions. It's a pretty large cast of characters throughout the book, some of them major and some of them minor, and we get introductions for all of them regardless of the weight they leave on the story. We bounce between POVs with little time to get settled into a particular character. While it makes sense for the story's pacing, it does make it difficult to build a relationship with the characters until the jumps start to spread out more. The dialogue is very well done. It flows well between characters and each character has a unique voice. I really, really like Cal and Colleen. They are such well done characters.
The pacing of the plot is slow. It plods along at a steady but slow pace that can make interest difficult to hold on to. Like I said, this is very much the first book in a trilogy. A lot of information is doled out and a lot of the time it is more told instead of shown which is a detriment. All that to say, I am looking forward to the next installment finally. I guess leaving a cliffhanger for 20+ years is not ideal.”
Shaun McKernan
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Sarah Arnette
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Barbara Hambly
<DIV>Barbara Hambly (b. 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction, as well as historical novels set in the nineteenth century. After receiving a master's degree in medieval history, she published The Time of the Dark, the first novel in the Darwath saga, in 1982, establishing herself as an author of serious speculative fiction. Since then she has created several series, including the Windrose Chronicles, Sun-Cross, and Sun Wolf and Starhawk, in addition to writing for the Star Wars and Star Trek universes.<br><br>Besides fantasy, Hambly has won acclaim for the James Asher vampire series, which won the Locus Award for best horror novel in 1989, and the Benjamin January mystery series, featuring a brilliant African-American surgeon in antebellum New Orleans. She lives in Los Angeles.</DIV>
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