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Circle of the Moon (2006)

This review is based on my latest re-read, but this is a book I've read several times before (though not in a few years) and Hambly is one of my most favorite authors. So salt accordingly.In my younger days, I mainly clustered tightly around a small ring of trusted authors, devouring new books a...

Circle of the Moon (2006) by Barbara Hambly
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Mother of Winter (1997)

This is a much-removed 4th installment of the world of Darwath, followed soon after by its 5th brother, Icefalcon's Quest. At this time in my life, I wasn't able to browse in bookstores anymore. When I saw these sitting on a shelf, I gasped and exclaimed in joy audibly, which was pretty embarrass...

Mother of Winter (1997) by Barbara Hambly
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A Free Man of Color (1998)

tA Free Man of Color is the first book in the Benjamin January series by Barbara Hambly, and it is awesome. It’s the story of Benjamin January, a middle-aged black musician and surgeon who has just returned to New Orleans, after spending most of his adult life in Paris, after the death of his bea...

A Free Man of Color (1998) by Barbara Hambly
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Those Who Hunt the Night (1990)

This almost-steampunk Vampire novel introduces the characters of James Asher, (think Sherlock Holmes for the Home Office), Lydia Asher, his wife and a physician fascinated by blood, and Don Simon Ysidro, one of ‘those who hunt the night.’ Don Simon has been trying to solve the mystery of murdere...

Those Who Hunt the Night (1990) by Barbara Hambly
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Dragonshadow (2000)

Like a lot of people, I read Dragonsbane years ago and loved it. Dragonshadow, however, was terrible by all accounts. The first portion of the book was tedious. Sure, we need to see what has been going on with John Aversin and Jenny Waynest since Dragonsbane, but here we get pages of basically n...

Dragonshadow (2000) by Barbara Hambly
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Knight of the Demon Queen (2000)

Dragonshadow was a book mainly about demons ruining the lives of our main characters. So how can Barbara Hambly top that you ask?Well, yeah of little faith. I mean, all she has to do is send our favorite characters to hell both physically and mentally, torture them a bit more, make them treat e...

Knight of the Demon Queen (2000) by Barbara Hambly
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Bride of the Rat God (1994)

Chrysanda Flamande was the sultriest vamp of the silver screen in Hollywood, California, in the year 1923. Then an elderly Chinese gentleman warned her that a trinket she'd worn in her last movie had marked her to be the bride of an ancient devil-god of Manchuria. Now the Rat God is stalking clos...

Bride of the Rat God (1994) by Barbara Hambly
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Children of the Jedi (1996)

The great Jedi Master Luke passes out - Times Four!Han, Luke, and Leia are on Ithor, enjoying the beautiful Time of Meeting, when an old associate of Han's appears and leaves them with a cryptic message. This message leads Han and Leia to the mysterious world of Belsavis, and Luke and his student...

Children of the Jedi (1996) by Barbara Hambly
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Budayeen Nights (2003)

George Alex Effinger's first short-fiction collection in nearly 15 years, these nine tales are set in Budayeen, the walled city in the sand, a city of dark shadows and even darker inhabitants, where a Raymond Chandleresque vision has been created -- hardboiled, noir, futuristic -- but with a twis...

Budayeen Nights (2003) by Barbara Hambly
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Dead Water (2005)

I have enjoyed Hambly’s books since reading her vampire work Those that Hunt the Night years ago, and picked this up because I enjoy Civil War period books. I was not disappointed. This book kept my attention from the very first page. The cast of characters was so well drawn they seemed like real...

Dead Water (2005) by Barbara Hambly
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Die Upon a Kiss (2002)

DIE UPON A KISS (Hist. Mys-Benjamin January-New Orleans-1830s) – NRHambly, Barbara – 5th in seriesBantam, 2002, US Paperback – ISBN: 0553581651First Sentence: “…nigger,” muttered a man’s voice, hoarse in the dark of the alley but very clear.Benjamin January is leaving the American Theatre, after...

Die Upon a Kiss (2002) by Barbara Hambly
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Sold Down the River (2001)

Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city...

Sold Down the River (2001) by Barbara Hambly
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Fever Season (1999)

It strikes me as very risky for a writer to write an historical "whodunnit" featuring an actual infamous figure from the past. This particular person is not exactly a household name, but for someone who (like me) has taken more than one Haunted History tour of New Orleans, it probably won't take ...

Fever Season (1999) by Barbara Hambly
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Sisters of the Raven (2005)

The Yellow City is in crisis. The wells are running dry, and the Sun Mages have been unable to call the rains. Frustrated Mages across the land can no longer work the magic that once ran their empire. Now the magic lies solely in the hands of a few women - the first ever to have developed magical...

Sisters of the Raven (2005) by Barbara Hambly
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Renfield: Slave of Dracula (2006)

I wish that Goodreads allowed half-star ratings, because I would have given it 4 and 1/2. It deserves more than 4, but just misses the 5-mark of "Oh my god, this is one of the best books ever."I have to hand it to Hambly, she certainly took on an enigmatic and difficult subject. In the original...

Renfield: Slave of Dracula (2006) by Barbara Hambly
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Dragonstar (2003)

One reviewer on Amazon stated that Dragonstar “. . . almost seems to have been written as an apology to fans for the gloom of the first two books.” And I have to one hundred 100) percent agree with that assessment.Here, Hambly begins by John Aversin and Jenny Waynest being rescued from their own...

Dragonstar (2003) by Barbara Hambly
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Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers (2007)

For me, Hambly is always first a science fiction or fantasy author. This is because the first book I ever read by her was about a dragon that falls in love with a human. Her historical fiction, however, tends to be a cut above her sf/fantasy writing, though that implies that her work in that ge...

Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers (2007) by Barbara Hambly
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Traveling with the Dead (1996)

This book was a major disappointment. 1.5 stars rounded up. Uninteresting, antiquated fashion reports abound in this soporific, rambling book. On the one hand, I liked the little wifey-poo getting involved and having an intelligent, systematic approach to investigating the whereabouts of the vamp...

Traveling with the Dead (1996) by Barbara Hambly
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Graveyard Dust (2000)

Benjamin January # 3! This one was way less grim than Fever Season. I realize that's easy to say, so I will give it an independent grimness rating.Grimness of content: Medium. Racism and other isms, slavery, murder; child abuse is discussed but not shown.Grimness of tone: Low. The subtitle is "a ...

Graveyard Dust (2000) by Barbara Hambly
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The Emancipator's Wife (2005)

-Let me begin by saying that I wanted so very much to love this book and I did at first but then it began to drag on…and on…and on. I cannot possibly imagine enduring all the suffering that she did. She certainly did go through a lot and as person suffering from bipolar disorder, it could not hav...

The Emancipator's Wife (2005) by Barbara Hambly
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The Dark Hand of Magic (1997)

In Book I of this trilogy, The Ladies of Mandrigyn, it starts out with the action "over"-the mercenary troup is celebrating a victory. In Book 2 of this trilogy, The Witches of Wenshar, it begins with an argument between Sun Wolf and a witch.So Barbara Hambly starts the concluding book of this t...

The Dark Hand of Magic (1997) by Barbara Hambly
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The Silicon Mage (1988)

This is the immediate sequel to The Silent Tower, and as such should be read immediately after you have finished the first one. (If you've read it, you know what I mean.) The opening line is one of my absolute favorites in a fantasy book, though unfortunately I do not think I should reproduce it ...

The Silicon Mage (1988) by Barbara Hambly
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Dragonsbane (1987)

Hey, this is really good! It doesn’t beat out The Ladies of Mandrigyn as my favorite Hambly, but that’s because Mandrigyn is awesome; this is a strong second. Please ignore the cover and blurb, though, as they appear designed to fool you into thinking this is a different sort of book from what it...

Dragonsbane (1987) by Barbara Hambly
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The Armies of Daylight (1983)

This third book from the original Darwath Trilogy is so intense! I think the biggest intensity is of course, the main plot line. It's unpredictable, changing, and complex. Barbara Hambly does not telegraph her punches with pointless foreshadowing and constant reminders. Yes, she's kept certain id...

The Armies of Daylight (1983) by Barbara Hambly
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The Ladies of Mandrigyn (1984)

The Ladies of Mandrigyn is utterly delightful. It is, in fact, exactly what I was looking for when I attempted Jennifer Roberson's Sword Dancer, which so disappointed me. The Ladies of Mandrigyn makes no pretensions to being anything more than a pure sword-and-sorcery novel, replete with heroic a...

The Ladies of Mandrigyn (1984) by Barbara Hambly
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Dog Wizard (1992)

On any given day in Los Angeles, you might meet a person claiming to be a wizard from another world. In the case of Antryg Windrose, it happened to be true.Though Joanna Sheraton was an A-1 professional hacker, she could honestly say that computers weren’t her whole world—nor was the city of Los ...

Dog Wizard (1992) by Barbara Hambly
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The Time of the Dark (2000)

Once, long ago, I recall walking through the Waldenbooks bookstore at my local mall, trying to find something new to read. After having crammed everything Middle-Earth related into my brain, I needed a new fix of epic fantasy adventure. Sure, I’d loved Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant books, read Moor...

The Time of the Dark (2000) by Barbara Hambly
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Icefalcon's Quest (1998)

The Icefalcon is an interesting enigma of a character throughout Barbara Hambly's "Darwath" series. This book, "Icefalcon's Quest," is designed to flesh out and give the background of the Icefalcon. It's definitely a book that needed writing and actually does a pretty good job of giving us that i...

Icefalcon's Quest (1998) by Barbara Hambly
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Search the Seven Hills (The Quirinal Hill Affair) (1987)

When I first started reading SF/F, Barbara Hambly quickly became one of my favorite authors, and her Windrose Chronicles in particular I reread every year. So I was excited to find that she'd also written a mystery set in Ancient Rome. I love Rome! Awesome! But... it didn't really work for me.The...

Search the Seven Hills (The Quirinal Hill Affair) (1987) by Barbara Hambly
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The Magicians of Night (1992)

THE OCCULT BUREAU The two wizards, Jaldis and Rhion, had dared the dread Dark Well to answer the desperate call of a world without magic. Jaldis had not survived the dreadful Void. Now Rhion was alone in a world he could not imagine -- the world of Germany in 1940. The four would-be wizards of ...

The Magicians of Night (1992) by Barbara Hambly
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The Witches of Wenshar (1997)

This novel picks up a couple months after the end of The Ladies of Mandrigyn, and if it isn't as surprising as that novel was it is no less delightful. While Starhawk has responded with her usual calm to all the changes in their fortunes, Sun Wolf is still assimilating the new needs his power pla...

The Witches of Wenshar (1997) by Barbara Hambly
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Stranger at the Wedding (1994)

Kyra was preparing for her final wizard test before the Council. But suddenly, something was twisting her magic, weaving sinister portents of doom into even the simplest of her spells. Then she knew for certain that her young sister Alix was soon to marry--and soon to die. And so she journeyed ba...

Stranger at the Wedding (1994) by Barbara Hambly
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Magic Time (2002)

I enjoyed the concept of this story, but it seemed that it was overly concerned with making sure all the many characters were introduced at the beginning. It begins with a ho-hum task by an agent, we later learn of the President of the United States, who is fleeting around looking for an unidenti...

Magic Time (2002) by Barbara Hambly
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The Silent Tower (1986)

I really don't know what to say about this book. At first I was captivated - by the story, characters, world, ideas, magic and the writing. But somewhere in the middle of the book I became bored by all of this, so I really started to drag with the reading.At first I thought that the idea of a hum...

The Silent Tower (1986) by Barbara Hambly
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The Walls of Air (1997)

This second installment of the Darwath 'Trilogy' (in much the same way the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is a trilogy) is a romping adventure. The first book, The Time of the Dark, is so intense and fraught with terror, that I love this second book because it simply gives us a bit of a ...

The Walls of Air (1997) by Barbara Hambly
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Planet of Twilight (1998)

I was dismayed, but not that shocked, to see the overwhelming number of negative reviews of Barbara Hambly’s novel “Children of the Jedi” on Goodreads. A quick perusal of fan reviews gives one the clear notion that Hambly is NOT well-liked by Star Wars Expanded Universe (SWEU) fans. Indeed, she s...

Planet of Twilight (1998) by Barbara Hambly
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Days of the Dead (2004)

2.5 stars. It was nice to spend time with Benjamin, Rose and Hannibal again, and this novel was as well written as all of Hambly's work, but this isn't one of my favorites in this series. After the events of the previous book I was eager to see how their lives in New Orleans would change, but ins...

Days of the Dead (2004) by Barbara Hambly
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Hagar

has always fascinated me. Just exactly what happens after, “happily ever after”? The hero/heroine gets the person of his/her dreams, and rides off into the sunset with their loved one perched on the back of the horse hanging onto saddlebags stuffed with gold. (It’s a very strong horse.) So what h...

Hagar by Barbara Hambly
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Sherlock Holmes

Watson, M.D.) by Barbara Hambly     In my career as the chronicler of the cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have attempted (his assertions to the contrary) to present both his successes and his failures. In most instances his keen mind and logical deductive facility led him to the solutions of seem...

Sherlock Holmes by Barbara Hambly
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The Kindred of Darkness (2013)

No mother in her senses should be able to watch this, thought Lydia, as he stroked the lettuce-green silk sash. Knowing what he is, I should be screaming at him to keep away from anything that has touched my child. What’s wrong with me? Why do I trust him? And she tried not to hear her heart repl...

The Kindred of Darkness (2013) by Barbara Hambly
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Libre

has always fascinated me. Just exactly what happens after, “happily ever after”? The hero/heroine gets the person of his/her dreams, and rides off into the sunset with their loved one perched on the back of the horse hanging onto saddlebags stuffed with gold. (It’s a very strong horse.) So what h...

Libre by Barbara Hambly
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There Shall Your Heart Be Also

Benjamin January cast a doubtful glance cattycorner across the trampled muck of the Broadhorn Saloon’s yard to the shabby building’s open back door. The Broadhorn was a substantial building for this part of New Orleans, a neighborhood known quite accurately as The Swamp. Constructed of the lumber...

There Shall Your Heart Be Also by Barbara Hambly
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Magistrates of Hell

‘Ach, and for what? These creatures multiply, Jamie! Each night’s delay puts other victims in peril.’ Laughter from the party at the next table: the Austrian ambassador and two of his aides, chattering in Viennese French.     With a sidelong glance at them, Karlebach continued...

Magistrates of Hell by Barbara Hambly
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Night’s Edge

What the hell was he doing? His hands were buried in her hair and her nose was crushed in the fabric of his shirt, not an altogether unpleasant experience. Dammit. She went to pull back, but his arms slid lower, hands cradling her shoulders, almost as if he wanted to keep her there, pressed again...

Night’s Edge by Barbara Hambly
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Slave Of Dracula

For three days he hung there, raving and sobbing at what he saw, at what he knew was happening, would happen. They gave him laudanum to quiet him, forcing it down his throat when he twisted his head aside in a vain effort to refuse further dreams.     Don’t send me back there!...

Slave Of Dracula by Barbara Hambly
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Search the Seven Hills

Petronius TELESPHORUS’ HARSH EYES flickered over him once. “It’s the centurion’s little clerk,” he said. “I am not one of his informers!” Dorcas had gone over to lay the folded blankets beside Churaldin’s discarded armor. She straightened up. “Of course you aren’t,” she said warmly and brushed ba...

Search the Seven Hills by Barbara Hambly
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Homeland (2009)

The pink silk dress fits perfectly, and is the precise shade to go best with my complexion, and, I can scarcely wait to read the precious books! Papa was both moved and Morally Uplifted by the sermons. The volume contained many of his favorites, and quite a number that he had read while a divinit...

Homeland (2009) by Barbara Hambly
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The Shirt On His Back

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The Shirt On His Back by Barbara Hambly
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Dead and Buried

Shaw, who conducted them out, confirmed that no discrepancies had been found in Caius Droudge’s account of a night’s muffled sleep with cotton in his ears – ‘Not that that means he didn’t sneak out in his bedsocks an’ kill a dozen men an’ eat ’em, too . . .’ – and that the blowzy Señora Alcidoro ...

Dead and Buried by Barbara Hambly
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Blood Maidens

What was it, Lydia wondered, that drew male Russian aristocrats to wear uniforms whenever they could, even if they weren’t serving officers? A craving for brilliant plumage instead of the proper blues and grays and browns to which Western Civilization had condemned men, poor things?‘Perfectly, th...

Blood Maidens by Barbara Hambly
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Patriot Hearts (2007)

I must wake up, Dolley thought. I must wake up and save Payne. The British are coming and we have to flee to the woods. No, that’s wrong, she thought. It’s Willie who’s crying. Baby Willie. The infant’s red face returned to her, fever-flushed, the little withered scrap of body that looked so much...

Patriot Hearts (2007) by Barbara Hambly

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