Shamelessly stolen kitty

Sorry if your friends list is full of this already.. maybe they should've made a couple different breeds of kitties. Anyway, copied from deliasherman and keyan_bowes, I bring you.. teh kitty.

Play with teh kitteh!

A reviewlet of "Foundation" by Mercedes Lackey

Like many people, my first introduction to Mercedes Lackey was The Last Herald-Mage trilogy. I went on to read many more books around that time.. I think it must've been about 1998-1999, given that the pictures in my head I associate with those books are on the bus in California. It wasn't long after that that I stopped reading Mercedes Lackey. The books were enjoyable enough, most of the time. But I wasn't too into urban fantasy, and the other Valdemar books seemed rather same-same, without ever being as cool as those first three.

I also got sick of the horses. I'm not a horse person. Even though I will admit to a brief unicorn phase, I will insist in the same breath it's only because they were magical animals. (They eventually got superseded by dragons, and noooo, it had nothing to do with --- little to do with Pern.)

At any rate, I haven't read any Lackey since at least Spring of 2002, because that's when I started keeping track of what I read.

But when I stumbled across mention of Foundation, and wondered why Lackey was writing in an Asimov world, I read the blurb and found it was about the founding of a school. So, schools are cool. I had liked Lackey in the past. So I thought I'd give it a go.

And what follows is my thoughts on it, with minor spoilers, so I'll put it behind a---

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Will I read the next ones in the trilogy? Probably, yes. Will I seek out more Lackey to read? Probably, no. Will I reread the Last Herald-Mage? Maybe.. I'm kind of scared I'll ruin any fond memories I have of it by rereading it with wiser eyes.