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Off the Shelf“Storm Season”By Marcus Pan
By the time Storm Season gets here, the gods of Sanctuary’s people and time are starting to come closer to a conflict and begin utilizing their own character-pawns in transcendent movements to cause different happenings in the world’s make-up. Tempus has returned from the vivisectionist’s laboratories, reached full strength, and continues to hunt Jubal’s hawkmasks throughout the town as Jubal quietly tries to recover from his own troubles and battle-weariness. His attempts to build up a network of strength that could someday achieve what he had in the past as the slavemaster will be interesting. Shadowspawn continues to be used by the gods – after extolling a favor from Tempus, whom he’s rescued, of high-end training in his fighting skills. Now one of the best swordsman in the lands, he pits his strength against those of gods themselves under the banner of his own. Tempus meanwhile has his own other-worldly battles as well while his sister continues her exploits of ridding the world of wizards in her own sensual manner. A mythical metal is brought back to be worked into swords for an army while Kitty Kat fends off visitors from the capitol who are plotting to take his governorship power – or at least have it manipulated to their own ends within the Rankan courts. Overall, it’s very satisfying even if it took a while for the interest to grow to such a level. I had a good time with it. As separate cliff hangers that detail the adventures of individual characters it helps you to keep things straight concerning how many people we have involved here. It would be a muddled mess if all of these folks were detailed in the form of a full novel – the short story way gives it an easier format to follow. And the use of multiple writers adds a flair in that you’re reading the different myths from multiple people with different storytelling styles…a biblical approach to the creation of this series. It would surely not have been nearly as interesting a read if not for my reading the previous books in the series. I wouldn’t suggest bouncing around – read this one chronologically (which most people would, anyway). “Storm Season” edited by Robert Lynn Asprin [1] Shadows of Sanctuary was reviewed in Legends #147. Click to Buy! |
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Another Thieves
World[1] book this is, the fourth in the original series. By this point in
the series the time investment is becoming worth it. Plots are starting to
twist as the stories begin to come together to be separate tales in a singular
milieu as opposed to previous episodes in Sanctuary where all the stories
seemed equidistant from each other. Lines are starting to cross now to pull you
into the action, becoming more interesting and leaving multiple answers being
waited on as different personalities have their own cliff hangers throughout.
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