The Armies of Daylight

by Barbara Hambly

Paperback, 1983

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Del Rey/Ballantine (1983), 309 pages

Description

Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:The bestselling author's epic fantasy trilogy comes to a dramatic end. The "cold, tense, creeping dread lasts right up until the final confrontation" (Tor.com). Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land's wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror, and few have witnessed more of the destruction than Rudy and Gil�??two ordinary Californians who found their way across the Void, and took up arms in defense of a strange and magical world. She learned the ways of war, while he found within himself the powers of a great wizard. Both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge. Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Rudy, Gil, and the rest of mankind's survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Karlstar
This is the completion of what originally was a trilogy, then extended to 5 books. This 3rd book actually completes the plotline of the original novel, in an unexpected way. If you like cliffhanger endings with massive magical battles, you'll have to look elsewhere, but the ending is still
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satisfactory, even if it leaves you wondering what happens next. Most of this book is about surviving in a 'post apocalypse' fantasy world, with Lovecraftian monsters around every corner and nasty politics. There are battles and magic, just not on every page. I very much enjoyed this series.
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LibraryThing member kwkslvr
Started well but it's almost as if the author tired of the whole thing and just snarfed together a shabby ending. It's kind of a disappointment, really.
LibraryThing member wealhtheowwylfing
Rudy, now a sorcerer in training, and Gil, who searches for the truth using very modern methods of scholarship, try to beat back the rising tides of the Dark. I'm still annoyed by Rudy and his giiiiiirlfriend Queen Minalde, and I've read the romance between Gil and Ingold before, in Hambly's
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Windrose Chronicles (different names, same damn characters). I could barely get through the first two novels in this trilogy, but the third book is far better. I adored reading the medieval response to Gil's scientific method, and her feminist ways of thought (that what people wore ages ago could be a clue to their culture, for instance) clashed repeatedly with the fantasy world's resistance.

As readable as it was, however, I am very disappointed by the end of the trilogy. After all sorts of battles and hardship and political and physical fighting, Ingold simply performs a spell and sends the Dark away. Why he didn't do that in the first place, I'll never know. Perhaps he was too busy turning white with strain and smiling grimly at Gil.
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LibraryThing member Jean_Sexton
The Darwath series was originally a trilogy and this novel is the conclusion to that trilogy. I liked the main characters, even with their warts and flaws, so this was a very satisfying book that kept me going to the very end. There were surprises (nope, not going into any spoilers) that made sense
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with hindsight.

The earlier two books are essential to read prior to this one, but the entire trilogy is a great read for fans of fantasy.
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Language

Original publication date

1983-07

Physical description

309 p.; 6.7 inches

ISBN

0345296710 / 9780345296719
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