I’ve just started reading Traci Harding’s latest book: The Gene of Isis and it looks like it’ll be another great read. While I loved The Ancient Future Trilogy (on Kindle: The Ancient Future: The Dark Age, An Echo In Time: Atlantis, and Masters Of Reality: The Gathering) and The Alchemist’s Key (or on Kindle), the books in her Celestial Triad series left me a little somewhat disenchanted (what with the much thicker miasma of “New Age” that permeates those books), so much so that I didn’t bother reading Ghostwriting or Book of Dreams.
Happily her latest work, if the rest of the book is at all like the first few pages, seems to have taken a less grating approach to the supernatural. The prologue, an entry from the journal of a character, has about it a charm reminiscent, to my mind at least, of the era in which it is set. The odd turn of phrase seems a little too modern, but the overall effect is most pleasing.
If you like fantasy, and are not averse to a bit of incarnation-hopping, then I’d thoroughly recommend giving Traci Harding a read.
On a related note, Voyager are celebrating their 10th birthday. Part of this (see the link) is a book containing a “sneak peek” of some of this years new books. I’m looking forward to a number of them, especially Trudi Canavan’s new book: Priestess of the White, due for release in November.
Another book on my list of eagerly awaited new titles is Katherine Kerr’s new book: The Gold Falcon. There are two excerpts available on her web site.