The Citadel of Wizards was under siege. Deep in the Vaults beneath the walled city, Gates into inhuman realities were opening and closing without warning. Monsters emerged from other dimensions; and ancient, malign magics came to life under the influence of cosmic chaos. Who is tampering with the Void? This description may be from another edition of this product.
EmBee has already given a synopsis of the book's beginning, so I won't add my own. Dog Wizard is the third tale set in this particular world (the other two are, in order, The Silent Tower and The Silicon Mage). As usual with Hambly, multiple plots come together and must be resolved before the book's end, the heroes are unusual, fully-fleshed out people, and there's a love story. The Windrose Chronicles is one of my favorite...
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Read The Silent Tower and The Silicon Mage? Wonder what happened to Joanna and Antryg after the miraculous save and his exile to magicless Los Angeles?Well, they lived happily ever after. For a couple of months. Suddenly everyone Antryg knows has the same distressing dream... the senders can't get to Antryg, and they know it, but the message is clear: we can hurt the people around you.And then Joanna disappears, kidnapped...
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I've watched Barbara Hambly improve as a writer since her first books (not something every writer bothers to do when they get published) and I've been very impressed. I loved "The Silent Tower" and "The Silicon Mage" when they first came out, more than anything else because the character of Antryg Windrose was so compelling. When I finally got hold of "Dog Wizard", I was very struck by it, because for the first time I got...
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This book was picked up on chance, I enjoyed the Untrained Wizard so tried this one. The characters are so realistic and the story was such that the ending was not as was expected. I haven't read the others and was able to enjoy this one as a single book so that says alot for her storytelling. Now I will be reading the first two and hoping for a fourth or fifth. If anyone wants to read a book about magic and good vs...
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I've read every Barbara Hambly book published, but I think this is my favorite. She has a knack for inventing characters that are complex and real, but Antryg and Joanna are not only believable but wonderful. I can't think of them without a feeling of fondness that I'd usually associate with my own family.
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