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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Serpent, David Drake
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:44:29 -0500
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On 8/29/2024 7:56 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
> 
> 
> Tuesday, 20 August 2024
> 
> I finished _The Serpent_ today, when I should have been preparing
> supper.
> 
> The artifact with the serpent on it turned out to have nothing to do
> with serpents, and I didn't see any anywhere else.
> 
> And it had very little to do with the plot, though it *was* very
> valuable.
> 
> For that matter, there was no overall plot, just a bunch of
> interlocking incidents.  Which miraculously end with Pal still alive.
> 
> It's a pity that there will be no more incidents.

Was this David Drake's last book ?  If so, then he was probably in the 
grasp of his disease while writing it.

Lynn