A Cast of Corbies review
Feb. 15th, 2007 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearGoing back to Mercedes Lackey after reading Sharon Shinn is like eating plain chocolate ice cream after you've tasted Ben & Jerry's Phish Food. It's still dessert, but it's just not the same. In terms of plot complexity, predictability, depth of character development, and inventiveness, Lackey really can't compare.
The other problem with A Cast of Corbies was that I had thought it was the fifth in a series, but it turned out to be an off-shoot set between the first two instead of after the fourth one. This was very confusing as I didn't work that out until about half way through so I spent the first half of the book thinking that she'd totally screwed up the continuity.
However, it's still a good book; a light, entertaining fantasy with a sappily happy ending, and I'm certainly not going to stop reading Mercedes Lackey just because I've found something better. The other two of her books that are in my pile might get shunted lower than the Sharon Shinn, though...
The other problem with A Cast of Corbies was that I had thought it was the fifth in a series, but it turned out to be an off-shoot set between the first two instead of after the fourth one. This was very confusing as I didn't work that out until about half way through so I spent the first half of the book thinking that she'd totally screwed up the continuity.
However, it's still a good book; a light, entertaining fantasy with a sappily happy ending, and I'm certainly not going to stop reading Mercedes Lackey just because I've found something better. The other two of her books that are in my pile might get shunted lower than the Sharon Shinn, though...
