Finished At Last.

Every light casts a shadow. So does the Dweomer. Some men choose to stand in the light; others in the darkness.
From Darkspell by Katharine Kerr

Feels like I've been reading this book forever. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it. I did... just sometimes it had me wondering how many times can you tell the same story with different players and only slightly different outcomes. But then isn't that life, if we don't learn the lessons we are given, don't we face them again in a different package at a later time...?

After a while the 'archaic' language starts to either get to you or draw you in... it did both to me in turn and turn about fashion, I guess depending on the mood that took me at the time of reading the book, but on the whole I'm just jealous I guess. Kerr winds the elements of the story together to build a very tangled web indeed. I guess it has to be tangled as there are at least six more books in the series. Of necessity she's going to have to resolve some of the things through those books, and soon, before that "how many times can you tell this story?" question becomes a bore. I wonder what she'll put in their place. She's bound to do something.

Of course that's a question that won't get answered for some time... taking a break from Deverry now to head into the Cotswolds... at least as far as reading is concerned.