Book Excerpt for the Day

    I liked Holgren.  I even trusted him, to a degree.  But he was still a mage, and being around a mage was like being around a ‘tame’ lion.  You could never fully let down your guard.  They were just too powerful, and too unpredictable.  Their motivations were too obscure.  Ultimately, I think, the kind of power a mage dealt with on a daily basis pushed him, eventually, beyond mundane considerations such as right and wrong.  He tended to think more along the lines of ‘possible’ and ‘impossible’, and the ‘impossible’ list was a lot shorter for a mage than it was for you or me.

    (from The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung)

    8*/10.  The complete review is here.

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