Bear, Elizabeth -- Shattered Pillars
Boy and magic pony (and girl, and wizard) continue
not-exactly-a-quest. I say "not exactly" because most of the
characters are pretty well pinned down through most of this book. We
have politics in one city, a plague in another, occasional rocs, and
ghoul politics in the city of Erem. (You know, "of the Pillars". This
is a nasty ruined city of Erem/Iram/Ubar, in a way which flows very
nicely from the books' psychoastronomical conceit.)
I think this series is best read in close proximity. I remembered
everybody from the first book, after the book reintroduced them, but I
had trouble remembering what everybody in the first book was doing.
Ah well. Third book has been turned in, according to the author. If
you want to speed-gulp the series you can probably do it next year
sometime. If you want to wallow in awesome bits right now, you can do
that.
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