L.S. Popovich's Reviews > Home from the Sea

Of course I read this without knowing it was part of a series, and not the first part, and of course I haven't read the others.

Nonetheless, it was a quaint study of characters, which shows that Lackey can write traditional courting tales, and put twists on fae myths and delicate forms of fantasy. It was not an action-packed story, but it didn't need to be. Curiously, this is the second Lackey audiobook I've listened to, and the second in which there is a production of Midsummer Night's Dream. Perhaps it will become a motif throughout her immense body of work, or perhaps it was a coincidence.

I know with time and considering the large number of her audiobooks available at my library, I'll be able to piece together many more elements of her style and world-building. Even so, this was a satisfying listen, if only for the fact that it offered plenty of Welsh and British flavoring as regards the atmosphere and dialogue.

The characters are not as stand-out as the ones I met in Hunter, but I would obviously need to find the other myriad volumes in this intricately plotted series of element masters, or wizards, really, and I am not opposed to doing so.