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I am trying to find a trilogy (I believe) of books that I read as a kid. The details are fuzzy a bit but I remember the following:




  1. People were portaled from our world to another

  2. Each person who came had a gemstone embedded in their body (one was I. The head and another in the head)

  3. They were fighting against some sort of darkness that swooped down at night and ate people

  4. There was a wizard who brought them

  5. The spines were bright neon colors like orange and pink


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I am trying to find a trilogy (I believe) of books that I read as a kid. The details are fuzzy a bit but I remember the following:




  1. People were portaled from our world to another

  2. Each person who came had a gemstone embedded in their body (one was I. The head and another in the head)

  3. They were fighting against some sort of darkness that swooped down at night and ate people

  4. There was a wizard who brought them

  5. The spines were bright neon colors like orange and pink


I know that's not probably very helpful but fingers crossed










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I am trying to find a trilogy (I believe) of books that I read as a kid. The details are fuzzy a bit but I remember the following:




  1. People were portaled from our world to another

  2. Each person who came had a gemstone embedded in their body (one was I. The head and another in the head)

  3. They were fighting against some sort of darkness that swooped down at night and ate people

  4. There was a wizard who brought them

  5. The spines were bright neon colors like orange and pink


I know that's not probably very helpful but fingers crossed










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I am trying to find a trilogy (I believe) of books that I read as a kid. The details are fuzzy a bit but I remember the following:




  1. People were portaled from our world to another

  2. Each person who came had a gemstone embedded in their body (one was I. The head and another in the head)

  3. They were fighting against some sort of darkness that swooped down at night and ate people

  4. There was a wizard who brought them

  5. The spines were bright neon colors like orange and pink


I know that's not probably very helpful but fingers crossed







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  • Hi, welcome to SF&F! You should check out the suggestions for asking story-id questions to see if there are any other clues you can recall.

    – DavidW
    21 hours ago



















  • Hi, welcome to SF&F! You should check out the suggestions for asking story-id questions to see if there are any other clues you can recall.

    – DavidW
    21 hours ago

















Hi, welcome to SF&F! You should check out the suggestions for asking story-id questions to see if there are any other clues you can recall.

– DavidW
21 hours ago





Hi, welcome to SF&F! You should check out the suggestions for asking story-id questions to see if there are any other clues you can recall.

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This feels like a mixup of two different book series.



In the Darwath trilogy by Barbara Hambly there is a darkness that swoops down at night and eats people, and people are brought from our world by the wizard Ingold Inglorion to deal with the problem. So this matches very closely with most of the points you remember except that there are no gems embedded in heads or bodies. The first book looks like this if it helps jog your memory:



Darwath



This was previously identified in the question 60's/70's Trio of books about being attacked by giant bats that take away your ability to think



There is a different series that has people with gems embedded in their bodies. This is the Wizards series by Simon Hawke and was perviously the subject of the question Fantasy novel where characters have gemstones implanted in their bodies. Female baddie is trying to 'harvest' them However this is a long series not a trilogy, and there is no darkness that swoops down and eats people.



The Wizards books do have brightly coloured covers. For example the original first book (subsequently two prequels were written) looks like this:



The Wizards






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    This feels like a mixup of two different book series.



    In the Darwath trilogy by Barbara Hambly there is a darkness that swoops down at night and eats people, and people are brought from our world by the wizard Ingold Inglorion to deal with the problem. So this matches very closely with most of the points you remember except that there are no gems embedded in heads or bodies. The first book looks like this if it helps jog your memory:



    Darwath



    This was previously identified in the question 60's/70's Trio of books about being attacked by giant bats that take away your ability to think



    There is a different series that has people with gems embedded in their bodies. This is the Wizards series by Simon Hawke and was perviously the subject of the question Fantasy novel where characters have gemstones implanted in their bodies. Female baddie is trying to 'harvest' them However this is a long series not a trilogy, and there is no darkness that swoops down and eats people.



    The Wizards books do have brightly coloured covers. For example the original first book (subsequently two prequels were written) looks like this:



    The Wizards






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      This feels like a mixup of two different book series.



      In the Darwath trilogy by Barbara Hambly there is a darkness that swoops down at night and eats people, and people are brought from our world by the wizard Ingold Inglorion to deal with the problem. So this matches very closely with most of the points you remember except that there are no gems embedded in heads or bodies. The first book looks like this if it helps jog your memory:



      Darwath



      This was previously identified in the question 60's/70's Trio of books about being attacked by giant bats that take away your ability to think



      There is a different series that has people with gems embedded in their bodies. This is the Wizards series by Simon Hawke and was perviously the subject of the question Fantasy novel where characters have gemstones implanted in their bodies. Female baddie is trying to 'harvest' them However this is a long series not a trilogy, and there is no darkness that swoops down and eats people.



      The Wizards books do have brightly coloured covers. For example the original first book (subsequently two prequels were written) looks like this:



      The Wizards






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        This feels like a mixup of two different book series.



        In the Darwath trilogy by Barbara Hambly there is a darkness that swoops down at night and eats people, and people are brought from our world by the wizard Ingold Inglorion to deal with the problem. So this matches very closely with most of the points you remember except that there are no gems embedded in heads or bodies. The first book looks like this if it helps jog your memory:



        Darwath



        This was previously identified in the question 60's/70's Trio of books about being attacked by giant bats that take away your ability to think



        There is a different series that has people with gems embedded in their bodies. This is the Wizards series by Simon Hawke and was perviously the subject of the question Fantasy novel where characters have gemstones implanted in their bodies. Female baddie is trying to 'harvest' them However this is a long series not a trilogy, and there is no darkness that swoops down and eats people.



        The Wizards books do have brightly coloured covers. For example the original first book (subsequently two prequels were written) looks like this:



        The Wizards






        share|improve this answer















        This feels like a mixup of two different book series.



        In the Darwath trilogy by Barbara Hambly there is a darkness that swoops down at night and eats people, and people are brought from our world by the wizard Ingold Inglorion to deal with the problem. So this matches very closely with most of the points you remember except that there are no gems embedded in heads or bodies. The first book looks like this if it helps jog your memory:



        Darwath



        This was previously identified in the question 60's/70's Trio of books about being attacked by giant bats that take away your ability to think



        There is a different series that has people with gems embedded in their bodies. This is the Wizards series by Simon Hawke and was perviously the subject of the question Fantasy novel where characters have gemstones implanted in their bodies. Female baddie is trying to 'harvest' them However this is a long series not a trilogy, and there is no darkness that swoops down and eats people.



        The Wizards books do have brightly coloured covers. For example the original first book (subsequently two prequels were written) looks like this:



        The Wizards







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