Owlflight

Read: ~2005Reread: 12/31/23My first reread of this trilogy since high school!Having just read the Mage Storms trilogy before diving into the Owl Mage trilogy I have realized that Lackey's writing style is very slice of life and telling. We follow our characters as they do simply every day tasks while they think through every single detail of the past and their feelings and what they should do about those details so we are told how they feel and we should feel. I don't hate this, but its good to know for those that haven't read much Lackey and are interested in checking it out.Darrion is a typical orphaned and mistreated fantasy main character who ends up in extraordinary circumstances. I love reading Valdemar for that trope, so it isn't a negative for me. Darrion is pretty whiney for the first half of this book, but we get a lot of context to help us remember he is a child dealing with trauma and are able to accept him with the context.