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Gefährtin des Lichts. Die Sage von Darwath.

von Barbara Hambly

Reihen: Die Saga von Darwath (omnibus 1 - 3)

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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:

From a New York Timesâ??bestselling author, three novels of a modern-day medievalist beset by murder and magicâ??"A fabulously talented writer" (Charlaine Harris).
As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat.

In The Time of the Dark, Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil's world. She is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined.

In The Walls of Air and The Armies of Daylight, Gil and Rudy know the world is no longer safe and there is nowhere to hide from the Dark. Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land's wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror. Few have witnessed more of the destruction than Gil and Rudy, and both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge.

Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Gil, Rudy, and the rest of mankind's survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse… (mehr)

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I've read 1 of the three books:
1 - The Time of the Dark - June 29-30 - 3.3
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  MikeBriggs | Sep 5, 2020 |
This excellent trilogy has aged well. It includes the following novels:

The Time of the Dark. Back in the early 1980s, I walked into a bookstore and fell in love with a cover. It showed a wizard, seated at what looked like a kitchen table, with a staff in one hand and a beer can in another with a bag of potato chips at his feet. I immediately bought the novel, this very book. I read it and loved it as it featured a strong, capable female character. Gil Patterson was a scholar who was drawn into another world and made a place for herself.

Of course, the story is far more than that. The Dark is feeding on the other world's people and must be kept from entering our mundane world. And there is Rudy, also from the mundane world who gets taken into Darwith. There is darkness and horror -- this nearly qualifies as dark fantasy. There are politics and religion. The characters grow and change.

I was worried that my decades-old memories wouldn't live up to today's reading. I am so glad that I still love this book. On to the next one!

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The Walls of Air. Many middle books of trilogies feel a bit weaker. We've met most of the main characters, and the author doesn't really resolve the storyline. Still somehow, there needs to be enough story to keep our interest. This book does that. This fantasy follows the pattern of Tolkien's The Two Towers and splits up the characters. Rudy and Ingold head off to the wizards' city while Gil and Minalde stay behind in the Keep.

Through Rudy's eyes, we learn more about the nature and perils of magic. Gil is a historian and intent on finding out more about the physical infrastructure of the Keep while trying to dodge most of the political and social infighting. I found both alternating stories interesting in their own way. Unifying them both is the threat of the Dark and how people deal with adversity and tragedy.

I enjoyed the story and, while I noticed it was the middle book, I also thought it had enough going on that it wasn't significantly weaker than the first book.

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The Armies of Daylight. The Darwath series was originally a trilogy and this novel is the conclusion to that trilogy. I liked the main characters, even with their warts and flaws, so this was a very satisfying book that kept me going to the very end. There were surprises (nope, not going into any spoilers) that made sense with hindsight.

The earlier two books are essential to read prior to this one, but the entire trilogy is a great read for fans of fantasy.

This trilogy is highly recommended for fans of fantasy. ( )
  Jean_Sexton | Nov 8, 2019 |
I got the ebook version of the omnibus a while back along with The Sunwolf and Starhawk trilogy, but I have only just got around to reading it. The print versions have been in my library since they were first published, but it’s been a while since I read them.

A couple of modern Americans (as of the original publication date - 1982!) are drawn into a parallel fantasy world beset with Lovecraftian monsters. Here they discover themselves - retiring scholar Gil(lian) Patterson becomes an expert swordswoman and joins the Royal Guard and body-shop paint artist Rudy Solis becomes the lover of the (supposedly) widowed Queen and discovers himself to be a mage.

The story line has stood the test of time pretty well, although I can see some Mary Sue elements in the Gil Patterson character (but they’re not particularly blatant). Equality is something of a theme - both sexual and racial, with a monolithic religion (complete with a female bishop and an Inquisition) being a secondary source of conflict against the primary source of conflict - the struggle for survival against The Dark.

Recommended.
  Maddz | Oct 14, 2017 |
This is my first foray into Hambly, and I dropped into it like a stone into water. The first book in particular reminded me strongly of (the best bits of) the Deed of Paksennarrion and the (older) works of GGK - strongly drawn, richly imagined and a pleasure to read.

This is traditional portal fantasy: two outsiders from our world are sucked into a conflict with an ancient, (literally) nebulous enemy in a parallel fantasy world. Darwath is losing the war, its King is dead, his heir a baby, and the political powers are at one another's throats as they vie for control in spite of ongoing assaults.

It's the details that make the difference. Hard-hearted and stubborn PhD student Gil gravitates to the Guard to become a tough warrior, which the egalitarian society of Darwath fully supports, without ever losing her grip on her academic and intellectual prowess. Self-absorbed biker artist Rudy is drawn to a noble lover and an unexpected profession in spite of a broad streak of cowardice. Ingold may be a Gandalf knock off, but he has rather more charm and self-deprecating humour at his disposal (and is rather more acquainted with his demons). Even the supporting characters are finely drawn, leaping into life from brief sketches and carefully-chosen interactions - and becoming fully-fleshed as the trilogy evolves (Alde, Alwir and Govannin in particular).

There are a couple of niggles, of course - it adheres to a well-trodden format, so there are no real surprises in plot or character development through the first book, although things become more interesting as the trilogy develops. Gil transitions from skinny student to competent warrior rather too easily (there's natural talent, then there (ought to be) a question of muscle mass, fitness and malnutrition). The excellent tweaks of tone of voice and vocabulary reflecting the POV did trip me up with Rudy's jarring Californian vocabulary. But these are minor gripes and really don't detract from an excellent read.

All the characters here are strong - female and male - and the final book in particular explores some dark ideas without embracing grimdark. Much is suggested rather than spelled out, and all the better for it. ( )
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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:

From a New York Timesâ??bestselling author, three novels of a modern-day medievalist beset by murder and magicâ??"A fabulously talented writer" (Charlaine Harris).
As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat.

In The Time of the Dark, Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil's world. She is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined.

In The Walls of Air and The Armies of Daylight, Gil and Rudy know the world is no longer safe and there is nowhere to hide from the Dark. Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land's wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror. Few have witnessed more of the destruction than Gil and Rudy, and both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge.

Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Gil, Rudy, and the rest of mankind's survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse

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