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    Elvenblood
    Elvenblood
    Elvenblood
    Audiobook12 hours

    Elvenblood

    Written by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey

    Narrated by Aasne Vigesaa

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The powerful magic of ruthless Elvenlord masters has for centuries ruled the world. Even Shana, the legendary Elvenbane prophesied to deliver the oppressed into freedom, is helpless before such power. She and her ragtag band of outcasts, half-blood wizards, escaped human slaves, and free-thinking dragons have gained only a token victory against the mighty lords.

    Only the long-forgotten Iron People, a band of human nomads, have escaped the tyranny of the reigning wizards. How have they survived through the centuries?

    As the winds of change sweep the world, and as tensions seething beneath the surface of Elven society threaten to break into open revolt, Shana meets the ancient tribe. Could an age-old secret free Shana and her people…or will its discovery call down their doom?

    “The talents of collaborators Norton and Lackey blend seamlessly as they expand the background to their epic fantasy.” —Library Journal

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 15, 2011
    ISBN9781441814357
    Elvenblood
    Author

    Andre Norton

    Andre Norton was one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy authors in the world. With series such as Time Traders, Solar Queen, Forerunner, Beast Master, Crosstime, and Janus, as well as many standalone novels, her tales of adventure have drawn countless readers to science fiction. Her fantasy novels, including the bestselling Witch World series, her Magic series, and many other unrelated novels, have been popular with readers for decades. Lauded as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, she is the recipient of a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. An Ohio native, Norton lived for many years in Winter Park, Florida, and died in March 2005 at her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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    • 4/5
      In this, the second part of the Elven Bane diptych, Shana and the other half elven make their way into the wildlands where they start working on a new fortress to protect themselves from the still mighty, and even more paranoid, Elven lords. As the initial fear of the elves wears off, some of the older half elven wizards decide that things should start returning to normal, i.e., the way it was before they had been uncovered. But Shana, the rest of the former apprentices, and crucially, the dragons, weren't going to have this. Shana finds the politics overwhelming and decides to go off on a scouting trip that was more like a holiday outing. Meanwhile, back in elven held lands, realising they weren't locating anywhere near all the half bloods (and if you thought this was insulting in Harry Potter, you ain't seen anything yet!), the High Lords realise they would have to test all their offspring for illusions hiding their true essence, so one half elven youngster has to go on the run. dragging along his full-elven half sister and her maid who claimed to have intel on how to get them to dragonland. After a fair bit of plot twists that see Shana and her party (a human psi and two dragons) taken ridiculously easily prisoners by the mythical Iron People, then the half elf and his sister also find the same group though disguised as the definitely no longer existing Corn People, former allies of the Iron People as the latter were driven out of their ancestral lands, they are treated better. Meanwhile, an Iron People internal power struggle between the popular War Leader and the older Iron Priest is stirred up by Myre, Keman's twisted little sister, who was also stirring up trouble in the Wizards' new lair.After quite a few scrapes along the way, Shana's expanded party find their way back home, come up with a plan on how to defeat the High Elven Lords' attack on the wizards and live happily ever after. After the great deal of detail Norton and Lackey went into in the first two thirds of the book, it isn't unfair to say that that last paragraph was almost as much detail as was given to that part of the story (OK a bit hyperbolic but not too much so!). Upto that point, it is a great book and in places it makes you hold your breath, though nether author ever seriously imperil a major character - if this had been George RR Martin on the other hand...! I had the feeling in the first book that this was our Earth that had suffered the calamity of the elven invasion but in this book, Shana's world felt like a more generic secondary world.
    • 4/5
      Benevolent dragons. Spoiled brat elves. Evil unicorns.... what's not to like??
    • 4/5
      Started a bit slow but good concepts, characters and story. Will seek sequel...
    • 2/5
      Thinking about this book after reading her Alta series, this one falls short. It's the same type of storyline, but with a Pern type twist that didn't quite do it for me. I remember being kind of bored with this series when I compared it to M. Lackey's other work. Maybe the author collaboration just wasn't working for me?
    • 3/5
      Not very riveting but will entertain when there is nothing else around.
    • 3/5
      Shana and the halfbreed wizards have escaped into the wilderness, and are fleeing the elven lords' wrath. Can the group establish a base without being torn apart by political factions?