Haven of Darkness

an absorbing start: after a day riding her horse and chatting with the spirit of an old crush - while under the spell of something called "delusia" that may stem from the twin suns of her world - haughty noblewoman Lavinia realizes she has traveled too far from her castle, and dusk is quickly approa......more

There are many of the usual Dumarest elements at work here, but I found Zakym, the remote planet where he eventually ends up, to be one of the more interesting in the series. It's hardly the most perilous, yet it's rich with mystery. The citizens are seemingly visited by the dead regularly, while sh......more

One of the later ones in the Dumarest series. All these books are readable and interesting but I don't feel compelled to read more. On occassion I'll pick one up and I usually find them worthwhile.......more

250302 Haven of Darkness (Dumarest 16) by EC Tubb [URL not allowed]-Darkness... It is a cruel universe and a man has only his own moral code, a code with recognizes that everyone is amoral and treacherous to go by. We are sixteen volumes into the Dumarest saga, and there are two things that......more

Too many things about this book irked me. It may follow the somewhat rigid formula of the Dumarest Saga but, somehow, it failed to live up to the others (so far) for me. Maybe it's because Dumarest was more vicious than usual - killing the knife-fighter after he had surrendered (for no real reason, u......more