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Not doing the cover, not doing the Wookiepedia page, not doing the normal format at all, because this book is absolute trash. I have read actual MFA theses that were better than this. By comparison Twilight  is a Masterpiece and  50 Shades  is complex emotional drama. Whatever your least favorite book is, you can safely move it to number two.  All the usual criticisms apply. The plot makes no sense, no one is in character, edits weren't done. It's like someone did the terrible vampire fanfic thing for Star Wars. My Immortal was better. Also, why does this book even exist? It was published two years after the other two in the sequence. Were there that many people looking for "closure" (you never get it, she just wanders off at the end) on Callista? Instead, here's a teardown of chapter 2. It's not particularly worse than any of the others, its just the one I stopped taking notes after, when it became obvious this would somehow be even worse than Children of the...

 As I've discussed before, part of the point of this blog is to look at the books that influenced me as a kid. Interestingly enough, I found out that I read (and remember liking) another Barbara Hambly book in middle school: Those Who Hunt the Night. Looking back, it feels like an odd choice for the Reading Olympics list, but whatever. I grabbed the chapter one sample and read it. It's very Hambly. Rambly, repetitive, nonsensical, uses the word "leggy" to describe attractive women.  I did learn that boot knives were a thing from it when I was a kid, so that's cool I guess. But yeah, I thought maybe she was just bad at Star Wars. No, bad in general. Somehow, this won the 1989 Locus for horror. Must've been a slow year.