Blizzard!

We've had a seriously mild winter this year, and now we know why! Mother Nature was storing it all it for a March blizzard! And me with only one unread library book, oops. Lucky for me, I've got my own personal library to dig through if needed and a knitting project on the go as well.

But anyhoo, here's what I have read in the last few days:

58. Foundation / Mercedes Lackey.
    The first new Valdemar novel in 5 years! And I found it just as engrossing as any of the previous books. This one is set after Vanyel's time, but well before any of the others, at the very foundation of the Heraldic Collegium. I would say that this is more of a young adult book than previous books in the series, it is a bit simplistic. But I enjoyed it and didn't want to put it down and now I am anxiously awaiting the next book in the series, because I need to know what happened, lol.
    
    If you've read other reviews of this book (say on Amazon) I suggest getting the book from your local library and reading for yourself. A lot of the reviews I read were nit-picky and annoying. Yes, they played children's games. Yes they eat fondue (no fondue is not a modern day food, it's been around a long time). Yes they have machines that split logs (but Valdemar has always had artificers and you have to remember they also had magic until fairly recently, why wouldn't artificers come up with ways to replace magic now that it's gone?). Yes, the people no longer remember Vrondi. But hello, if you've read the entire Valdemar series, you'll know that in first the Mage Winds trilogy and more in the Mage Storms trilogy it's explained that knowledge of magic was magically suppressed by Vanyel to keep people from panicking at no longer having Herald-Mages, hence the pained look on Herald Nikolas' face when talking about them. Sheesh.

I've read a few more books lately as well, but this post is long enough for the moment, lol.