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BOOK REVIEW: When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

Welcome everyone. Today I’ll be reviewing When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, the third installment and the conclusion of The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy. SPOILER ALERT. This last book begins where To Light A Candle ended, with our heroes casting the most powerful spell they’ve all participated in—even Cilaren, who gets sick whenever he is near any sort of Wild Magic, is there—to learn why the Endarkened have not engaged them in open battle yet, as they did before in the First and Great Wars. At this point, they’ve only had skirmishes and combats with lesser creatures of…

BOOK REVIEW: To Light A Candle by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today we are reviewing To Light A Candle by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, the second installment of The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy. In this second book, we are introduced to new characters, the magic system of the Obsidian Universe is developed even further and we are shown how inherently evil the Endarkened are, and the lengths they are willing to go to in order to kill anything that has been created by the Light. I’m going to start this review though by saying that I started reading this book a month or…

BOOK SERIES: The Obsidian Universe by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. This first post is a summary and introduction to the Obsidian Universe fantasy books written by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. Each book will get its own post, but I just wanted to write a synopsis for each trilogy in this general post. At the end, I will provide a general rating for all 8 books published thus far. Each book will get its own rating in its respective post. The Obsidian Universe consists of The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy—The Outstretched Shadow, To Light a Candle, and When Darkness Falls—, The Enduring Flame Trilogy—The Phoenix Unchained,…