Title: a lightweight Valdemar novel
Product review: I feel that Mercedes Lackey's recent writings have been divided into two categories: light-weight feel-good fantasy and gritty, gripping immersive worlds. The latter characterizes Lackey's original works and is what largely drew me to her writing.The former I recommend largely for Lackey fans or fantasy fans in need of "mind-candy", the latter to everybody."Exile's Honor" falls into the former, light-weight category. While it fills in some back-story holes nicely for Valdemar fans, the plot is lackluster (although it does pick up nicely in the last 20% of the book), with the "good guys have little trouble" sort of simplicity that has characterized recent Lackey writing with some notable exceptions such as "Take a Thief" or "The Shadow of the Lion" which fall solidly into my second category.As such, I only recommend this volume to hardcore Valdemar fans. Hopefully its recently published sequel, Exile's Valor, is more substantive.
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