Robin's Reviews > The Time of the Dark

This one was a free, promotional copy of the first in the Darwath Trilogy, in order to hype the "new" (at the time I got it, back in 1996) book in the same realm. A fantasy, of a type I generally enjoy, wherein our real world in some way collides or connects with some other realm of possibility. In this case, the realm of Darwath, a sort of parallel world. Darwath is rather medieval (carts and horses, nobles and peasants, castles and kings). But it has magic, and it has The Dark. It had a good pace, but somehow it all felt very superficial... like a scratch on the surface. It wasn't until the very end of the book that I felt, "Aha! We're finally getting somewhere!" And, of course, that was the end. I'm not sure I'm hooked enough to read more. Dunno. Maybe... unh, maybe not.