*Sigh* Ah, rereads.

I shouldn’t have attempted a reread of Lackey’s The Last Herald-Mage series after finishing Martin’s A Clash of Kings . It’s like going from rich imported Belgian chocolate to Reece’s Peanut Butter cups. Both are good, but you notice the waxy taste of the Reece’s after you’ve had all that dark chocolate.

The last time I read anything by Lackey I was in my teens, though, and in my teens I remember feeling pity for child-Vanyel. Now I want to smmack the kid around. And I’m going to keep reading because I remember that some of the scenes between Vanyel and Tylendel (SP) were extremely cute and I’m hoping that on a second reread there’s more life to the bard guy he ends up with in the third book than I remembered.