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Title: Not your average fantasy . . .
Review: Lynn Flewelling's Luck in the Shadows was the first fantasy novel I have read in a while, and I have to say I was suitably impressed. Her plot is engrossing with lots of unexpected twists and turns, and her characters are engaging and believable. She makes you care about what happens to her characters, namely Seregil and Alec, the heroes of the story. She also has several strong minor female characters in atypical roles such as soldiers and generals. The world in the story is carefully crafted with lots of detail, but not so much that the reader is bogged down with too much to remember. Overall, the details make it a very real, three-dimensional world that the reader is reluctant to come back from.
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