The Walls of Air, Barbara Hambly
The Walls of Air, Barbara Hambly
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The Walls of Air

Author: Barbara Hambly

Series: Darwath #2

Narrator: Sharon Freedman

Unabridged: 14 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/29/2023


Synopsis

A "tense and nerve-wracking" adventure in the epic fantasy trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Time of the Dark (Tor.com).

Once upon a time, Gil and Rudy lived simple lives.

Until they met Ingold, Gil was an ordinary PhD candidate and Rudy was a drifter, whiling away his life riding motorcycles under the California sun. But wizards have a way of complicating things. Ingold brought them across the Void, where an evil known as the Dark threatened to devour civilization whole.

Civilization's hopes rested on an infant prince, and to protect him Gil and Rudy had to draw on newfound powers—she as a warrior, he as a wizard. With Ingold's help they escaped the Dark, and led a hardy band of survivors to a far-away keep, where humanity could be safe for a time.

But now that time is past, they have been found, and there is nowhere to hide from the Dark.

About Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction, as well as historical novels set in the nineteenth century. After receiving a master's degree in medieval history, she published The Time of the Dark, the first novel in the Darwath saga, in 1982, establishing herself as an author of serious speculative fiction. Since then she has created several series, including the Windrose Chronicles, Sun-Cross, and Sun Wolf and Starhawk, in addition to writing for the Star Wars and Star Trek universes.

Besides fantasy, Hambly has won acclaim for the James Asher vampire series, which won the Locus Award for best horror novel in 1989, and the Benjamin January mystery series, featuring a brilliant African-American surgeon in antebellum New Orleans. She lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookwraiths on November 19, 2018

Great continuation of the Darwath Saga. Barbara Hambly doing an amazing job using the standard 1980s fantasy tropes in creative, unexpected ways, as well as crafting deceptively well-rounded and realistic characters in Gil, Rudy, Ingold, and Minalde. And the easter eggs! Man are there easter eggs ev......more

Goodreads review by Pam on August 26, 2020

See short summary for book 1 - the only thing I would modify this with, on August 2020 re-read, is that this does suffer slightly from the middle book of a trilogy syndrome, because the characters are split up and I did remember the big shock-horror revelation early on in my re-read. But staying tru......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 05, 2018

I loved this trilogy.......more

Goodreads review by Julie on September 05, 2023

You can't stop at just one. One of the trilogy, that is. Having picked up The Time of the Dark after many years' absence, I plunged right into this book. Once again I am really enjoying the excellent storytelling and the details that I'd forgotten. Most of all, however, I love being immersed in this......more

Goodreads review by Shalini on November 30, 2017

While we are no closer to finding out who or what the enemies are, the worldbuilding is much more fleshed out. Tragedy rises as well. It seems rather hopeless, but everyone is fighting, and despite it all they're still optimistic of their own fate. Let's see what happens next.......more