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Title: Elvenborn by Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0-8125-7123-1 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 19 October, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fantastic end to the trilogy
Comment: Like some of the other reviewers, I've been a fan of this series from the start, and eagerly awaited the release of this, the third book in the trilogy. Not only do I find the world Lackey/Norton constructed fascinating, but it's a very different spin than other authors have given to human-elven-dragon interaction, and I love it. It should go without saying that no-one should read any trilogy-finishing book without first having read the preceding two in the series, but with the way Lackey and Norton wrote the second and third books, this is even more important. Although the dedicated reader gets the updates on existing major characters that he/she craves, a whole new host of characters and circumstances is introduced as well, making this book not only a delightful continuation of the first two, but surprising and even more complex than I imagined it would be. It was definitely worth the wait, but as always with books I love - too short! I think I finished it in seven or eight hours on one day, since I'm a fast reader. Now I'll have to wait for the next offering!
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: It is hard for me to compare this book in quality to the first two in the series, Elvenbane and Elvenblood, because it has been so long since I read them, but my overall impression is that those books were of higher quality than this one.
My biggest problem with this book was that we are told what character development we are supposed to be seeing, not shown it by good writing. In the beginning, characters around the main character, Kyrtian, continually comment on how naive he is. Later, we are subjected to comments and even thoughts of the character himself on the fact that it is a good thing he is no longer naive, and has learned so much. Does he show that by his actions? I'm not sure. I was too distracted by the characters telling me about it.
This trend of telling not showing continues to varying degrees throughout the book, though its not so blatant in other places.
Finally, the ending was too obviously a set up for the next book. Nothing is explained, and my main reaction was pretty much 'what the heck???'
All in all, a very readable book, but I'd suggest that you approach it from the standpoint of finding out what happends next to characters you already know, not for the writing itself. If you haven't read the first two books, there's really no point.
Rating: 4
Summary: Entertaining, light, not challenging
Comment: I always enjoy the books Mercedes Lackey produces, in combination with many authors. This particular series entertains especially by novel twists on the traditional fantasy elements and races, but does not evoke any particularly lasting emotional connection to the series. Frankly, sometimes I like that as a break from "heavier" reading material, but one wishes that some of the possibilities of this plot had been explored in more detail. The climactic scene, for instance, holds the possibility of much interesting storytelling and a much more wrenching end to the story, but instead the scene is over quite quickly and with little depth of plot. One wishes the evildoers did not all die deservedly, and that things did not always go so particularly well for the protagonists. One thing that can be counted on in this series: even if the plot seems to put the main characters in peril, not to worry! Things will turn out just fine very shortly. In all, a plot that surprises by its predictability. I agree that the authors can produce a much better novel. I also can't wait for the next one! Like compulsively eating candy, I read it because it's fun-while wishing it were a bit more challenging.
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Title: Elvenblood by Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0812563190 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Elvenbane by Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0812511751 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Exile's Honor: A Novel of Valdemar (Daw Book Collectors, No. 1235) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756401135 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sun In Glory (A Valdemar Anthology) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756401666 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Exile's Valor: A Novel of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756402069 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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