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Summary: dragons and elves and halfbloods oh my!
Review: this is one of thhe best books i have ever read. lately ive been on an anne mccaffery fix, so im a dragon person. i saw the cover w/ a dragon on it. and bought it on a whim. i couldnt put it down after that. all other commitments were forgotten. all i wanted to dfo was delv into the world of shana, a halfblood, a wizard, elven dad, human mom. theres a beautiful mixture of characters. elves, dragons, wizards, humans, even unicorn (aka one-horns) are mentioned.the character development of all is exquisit. and their interactions superb. i tell you i have read fantasy books all my life. and i love the bled of common fantasy elements with new twists and turns. i would recommend this book to all people. elf lovers, dragon lovers, magic lovers, everyone will love this book.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: I read this book last year and could NOT put it down...Literally. I'd go to classes in school and constantly get it taken away for reading it in class! For some reason, it took me a long while to read this book. But after I did, I was so happy with it that it wasn't even funny. I wanted to read it over and over again. I think this book was very excellent and made me wish I was Shana, the girl with a telekenesis-type power. Shana was the daughter of a concubine of Lord Dyran, who was an elven Lord. He got the concubine pregnate and, since the child would be a forbidden half-blood, the concubine ran away. She got stranded in the desert and a "shiftshaper" dragon came across her as the concubine was giving birth to the half-blood child. The woman giving birth dies and the dragon, Alara, takes in the child to raise it with her own. The half-blood is raised by dragons and creates a controversey within the dragon's lair upon raising a "human" with none other than it's own. A lot happens from there on. It is too odd& difficult for me to explain. Therefor, I'll leave it up to all of you to be smart and read the book.;)
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Summary: A poor blend of two worlds...
Review: Well written in some ways. But, like the main character herself, the book seemed like two separate worlds shoved together. The Elven side of the world, and the Kin side. I recommend it for reading, perhaps, but not buying. Check your local library.The ending was a bit anticlimatic, and even before I knew from looking online, I could tell it had 'sequels will follow' written all over it.
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: This is the best out of all the five Andre Norton books I've read.Thank God Norton wasn't influenced by Lackey's poor writing style.
Many new ideas were introduced in this book ,such as dragon's shedding and shapeshifting, and elves being thouroughly evil.Cultural development was also included,for both dragons and elves,and many new creatures were introduced,such as grels,one-horns,two-horns,three-horns ,and loupers.Anyone who likes detailed stuff,is sure to like this.
Evil characters were realistically portraited.They did terrible things ,such as beating slaves to death,owning concubines,and immediatly making a halfbreed a slave.They were very easy to hate.
Serina Daeth,the concubine of the elvenlord Dyran,escapes from the keep,pregnant with a halfbreed child.She is found by the dragon Kin,who adopt her child(Serina died of childbirth)and name her Shana.As she grows to a woman,she finds that she has magical powers .Then her life is changed forever.
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Summary: Tolkein's Adventures Through the Looking Glass - Darkly
Review: Every elf a psychopath, dragons and humans with magical power. Humanity downtrodden, enslaved, clawing to be a better slave. Somebody's dream world. Or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Haven't quite analyzed it through yet. Definitely an escape novel. Excellently done.
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Summary: A Child of Prophecy
Review: The Elvenbane is the first novel in the Halfblood Chronicles. The Elves are aliens from elsewhere. They are long-lived and have great magics and, long ago, they conquered Earth. Now the humans wear slave collars and take orders from Elven overseers. The Elves and humans can interbreed; the resulting child usually has Elven magic and the mind powers of the humans. These halfblood Wizards are reluctant to obey the Elven Lords and eventually rebelled in the Wizard's War. Ever since, it has been a killing offense for a human to become pregnant by an Elf. The Elves and humans unknowingly share the planet with the dragons, who came during the Wizard's War. Dragons are shapeshifters and their shamans have the power of mind speaking and reading the thoughts of others. They can also play with the lightning and create gates between worlds. The dragons despise the Elven Lords and cause confusion and anger whenever they can. One of their favorite ploys is to spread the prophecy of the Elvenbane, a halfblood who will free the human from Elven tyranny. In this novel, Alamarana is a shaman and pregnant. She is traveling across the world, shifting her shape and becoming one with the planet. For a while, she impersonates an Elven maid and leads an Elven Lord into a marriage agreement just before she vanishes from his manor. Then, as she is meditating in a body of stone, a human slave, also pregnant, literally stumbles across her. Serina Daeth had been the chief concubine of Lord Dyran, but another concubine managed to make Serina fertile with the Elven Lord and so now she is fleeing for her life. Alara almost abandons Serina in the desert, but decides to help deliver the child. When the mother bleeds to death, Alara takes the girl child home with her. Seeing the baby, all the dragons of her lair start to argue and complain. The infant is too noisy, she is too smelly, and she is ugly, but Alara is determined to keep the child. Moments later, she goes into contractions herself. Alara's son, Keman, thinks the infant is kind of cute. He is the type of dragon child who brings pets home with him and the human baby looks to be another pet, yet so small and feeble. When his mother goes into labor, Keman takes the child home and puts her in the pen with Hoppy, his three-legged two-horn, who soon includes the human in her nursing brood. Keman names the baby Lashana, which is "orphan" in Elvish, but since she is so little, he shortens the name to Shana. Since his mother is very busy with his baby sister, Keman takes over the care of this little human. He makes her a shift of his own shed skin to protect her tender skin. He starts teaching her to talk, refusing to just speak mind-to-mind. He soon learns how hard work there is in being a mother. This novel is about family, fate, and freedom. As with most of both authors' stories, this tales features characters who persevere in their struggle against hardship and injustice. Moreover, it contains alien characters who defy there own kind to help win the struggle. Recommended for Norton and Lackey fans and anyone else who enjoys tales of strange powers, friendly dragons and righteous conflict.
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Summary: Great epic fantasy
Review: This is a wonderful beginning for the "Halfblood Chronicles". The characters in this book are great, the world is very original and the style is realy cool.
Highly reccomended.
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Summary: Best series I've ever read
Review: the details are so rich in this book I could see in my mind whatever she wrote about I would and Do recommend this book to and avid reader and the series as well I can not wait till the fourth book comes out
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Summary: YAY I LOVE IT!
Review: I love it! YAY! This is my favorite book, and thats saying something.
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Summary: The Elvenbane ROCKS!
Review: I LOVE this book! I bought it because I started to enjoy fantasy and this book had me hooked from the very beginning! Shana is a believable character who is a true heroine. You can easily empathize with her. All the characters are interesting and seem to come alive even ones such as Mero, Alara, Valyn. The plot is different and is very exciting. I would reccomend this book to anybody!
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