The Armies of Daylight, Barbara Hambly
The Armies of Daylight, Barbara Hambly
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

The Armies of Daylight

Author: Barbara Hambly

Series: Darwath #3

Narrator: Sharon Freedman

Unabridged: 14 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/19/2023


Synopsis

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 wizards have been slaughtered, cities destroyed, and people have scattered in terror.

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.

About Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction, as well as historical novels set in the nineteenth century. After receiving a master's degree in medieval history, she published The Time of the Dark, the first novel in the Darwath saga, in 1982, establishing herself as an author of serious speculative fiction. Since then she has created several series, including the Windrose Chronicles, Sun-Cross, and Sun Wolf and Starhawk, in addition to writing for the Star Wars and Star Trek universes.

Besides fantasy, Hambly has won acclaim for the James Asher vampire series, which won the Locus Award for best horror novel in 1989, and the Benjamin January mystery series, featuring a brilliant African-American surgeon in antebellum New Orleans. She lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookwraiths on November 20, 2018

Other than the ending being a bit rushed, this was a great conclusion to the trilogy. Most of the mysteries were revealed, a true conclusion was reached in all the major plot lines, and our main characters completed their personal journeys. Naturally, it all left me feeling sad and disappointed thou......more

Goodreads review by Liv on September 30, 2012

This third book from the original Darwath Trilogy is so intense! I think the biggest intensity is of course, the main plot line. It's unpredictable, changing, and complex. Barbara Hambly does not telegraph her punches with pointless foreshadowing and constant reminders. Yes, she's kept certain ideas......more

Goodreads review by Pam on August 28, 2020

On this re-read, I will just add this to my overall summary under the first book: as the trilogy enters the closing laps, the characters are put through the ringer even more, with more political shenanigans, treachery, hopeless endeavours, and backs to the wall. If I was reading this fresh now, I mi......more

Goodreads review by Shalini on December 03, 2017

Superb! And a grand resolution is had by all. The conclusion to the trilogy really drags the suspense and bleakness all the way to the end, and it never really lets up. I love that the women characters are so well-rounded, they are strong and yet flawed, even the female antagonist. The male characte......more

Goodreads review by Wealhtheow on December 19, 2007

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 Windros......more