Booklog 49/2018 -Tanya Huff: The Future Falls

[jacey]

This is the third book about the Gale Women. (I still think the first, Enchantment Emporium is my favourite.) Charlie, talented Gale woman, musician, and cousin to Allie who runs the Enchantment Emporium, is on her way to becoming a Wild Power. Not quite what the gale Aunties would have wished, but there's not much they can do about it. Unfortunately Charlie is drawn towards Jack, a Gale boy and also a Dragon Prince and sorceror, but their age difference is too great for the Aunties to sanction any kind of romantic relationship. That doesn't stop Charlie and Jack pining for each other, while keeping up a platonic relationship. However when an asteroid is discovered, racing for earth, the Gale Aunties decide they can't do anything about it, except try to save their own. Charlie wants to save the world. According to NASA she has 21 months. There's a fair amount of Charlie/Jack angst, and for a while it seems like the ending is going to be BAM! SPLAT! But Charlie is resourceful and Jack has hidden depths.

Comments

[gorgeousgary]

As usual, I am amused to see someone I know has read The Future Falls. I'm the model for the engineer who quits his job to go play bouzouki, having paid a decent sum of money for the Tuckerization in a charity auction (*grin*).

[jacey]

How wonderful! Pleased to meet you. As a former full-time folk singer I know the feeling of quitting a day job for an uncertain gain, financially, but for the certain gain of peace of mind.

[gorgeousgary]

I am always amused when someone I know reads The Future Falls, given I am the model for the engineer who quits his job to go play bouzouki. Paid a decent amount at a charity auction for the Tuckerization (*grin*).

[jacey]

Being a person who quit the day job to go on the road with a singing trio for twenty years, I know how you feel! http://www.artisan-harmony.com