About this title: Rudy, Gil, and their wizard friends are exiled from the Keep and must keep their wits about them as they are now exposed to the Dark and its minions, which grow ever closer. This is the third book in the Darwath series.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey, New York
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780345296719ISBN:0345296710
Description: not a pretty book, covers very worn & damaged, spine cocked & creased, copy edges tattered, smudged & worn, dog-earing in copy, pages yellowed due to age. Mass Market (Rack) PB, glued binding, 309 pp. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780345296719ISBN:0345296710
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG-cover wear. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 309 p. Darwath Trilogy, 3. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 1983
Description: Good reading copy, wraps worn. 309p., reading creases and some edgewear, the sign of a good book! ! Into the haunted, horrible Nests of the Dark the wizards went-and some returned! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780345296719ISBN:0345296710
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780345296719ISBN:0345296710
Description: Paperback Acceptable condition. Light edge wear and spine creases. Numerous superficial scratches. Browning inside covers and less on pages. Book edges a bit discolored. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition (Stated)
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780345296719ISBN:0345296710
Description: Mattingly, David. Good. 12mo. {006118} The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly. Illustrated by David Mattingly. ISBN 0345296710. Published by Ballantine Books in 1983. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK 12mo Sci-Fi First Edition (Stated) {Book Condition} GOOD {Book Condition Details} Cover: edge wear, creasing on Spine, light creasing, rubbing, End Papers: owner inscription(s) on front paste down, tanning on rear free endpaper, Text: foxing on page edge(s). {Keywords} FICTION FANTASY DARWATH IMAGINARY ... read more
"I first read this series in (cough) 1986 at the age of 14 or so and it gripped me and scared me witless in equal measures. Rereading it as an adult, it doesn't scare me quite as much, but it's still a wonderful series with well drawn characters including one of the best gandalf-type wizards in contemporary fantasy, all the better because he is NOT infallible.
I think one of the best dynamics in this particular world is the uneasy relationship between the church and the wizard communi...more I first read this series in (cough) 1986 at the age of 14 or so and it gripped me and scared me witless in equal measures. Rereading it as an adult, it doesn't scare me quite as much, but it's still a wonderful series with well drawn characters including one of the best gandalf-type wizards in contemporary fantasy, all the better because he is NOT infallible.
I think one of the best dynamics in this particular world is the uneasy relationship between the church and the wizard community and the way that the state falls between the two. None of your Harry Potter-type back-room government shenanigans here as the wizards are considered to be the agents of the devil by the church, yet they are not condemned by the state.
The Dark of the title are a protoplasmic being that have "risen" from their lairs. The whole of this series asks the question why? Why did the Dark rise and what can be done. The way that Hambly deals with this is fascinating as it's not just a "humans good, unpleasant people-killing protoplasmic beast bad" situation.
Despite the "real-world" sections of this book being very obviously set in the 1980s, the series does not suffer from feeling too dated by this. I highly recommend the series."
"Rudy, now a sorcerer in training, and Gil, who searches for the truth using very modern methods of scholarship, try to beat back the rising tides of the Dark. I'm still annoyed by Rudy and his giiiiiirlfriend Queen Minalde, and I've read the romance between Gil and Ingold before, in Hambly's Windrose Chronicles (different names, same damn characters). I could barely get through the first two novels in this trilogy, but the third book is far better. I adored reading the medieval response to Gil's scientific method, and her feminist ways of thought (that what people wore ages ago could be a clue to their culture, for instance) clashed repeatedly with the fantasy world's resistance.
As readable as it was, however, I am very disappointed by the end of the trilogy. After all sorts of battles and hardship and political and physical fighting, Ingold simply performs a spell and sends the Dark away. Why he didn't do that in the first place, I'll never know. Perhaps he was too busy turning white with strain and smiling grimly at Gil."
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