The Elvenbane

I just wanted to warn anyone who can\’t handle a series which is unfinished, and may never be finished. The book is great, and the Audible version excellent as well. Sadly the death of Andre Norton put the end of this series somewhere (hopefully) in the future. Mercedes Lackey is a wonderful fantasy author, and I\’ve read and thoroughly everything she\’s put her hand to (that I could get my hands on). This is a great story for fantasy book lovers. It has all you want, magic, creatures, love, iintrigue, imagination galore, etc. I just hope we find out what actually happens to the characters in this story who are left without any resolution. My imagination isn\’t good enough – I need the professionals! If Audible has any power encouraging authors, please do so. The entire Valdemar series should be in a quality Audible format. The Colegium Chronicles isn\’t the best way to start listening to her Valdemar books. (and Arrows of the Queen is 1/3 of a story).

I doubt I will listen to this narrator again. She was over the top, near hysterical at time, and boring at others. Even when Shara is a young adult, her voice still sounds like a small child. The narration doesn\’t help the story. It is apparent there were two authors, and it is easy to tell where one stops and the other starts. Parts of the book are very adult, dealing with concubines, oppression and violence. On the other hand, the parts about Shara seem written for the middle grade reader. I never felt the two stories merged into one. Especially during Shara\’a scenes. She remembers and thinks about things but they have already happened. We don\’t get to experience them with her. The book did not hold my interest.

loved this book twenty years ago. love it now. will forever be in my thoughts and heart.

I couldn\’t believe how long this book was. It felt like a dark children\’s book that was dragged out over 19 hours but didn\’t really say anything. There was substance where there didn\’t need to be any and no substance where there should have been. There are no fight sequences in this book. A story that has elves, humans, half-breeds, and dragons should have at least one good fight scene! The magic systems between the races seemed like they were going to be interesting but again, no substance. With the exception of a cursory overview, they didn\’t even try to explain the magic system. Sections of the book that seemed woefully unimportant were drug out for no reason and sections that seemed like pivotal moments in the book were either discussed in a paragraph or two or just skipped over completely! Every time that I thought something cool was going to happen they completely skip the event and just tell you how it ended. Towards the end I checked to see how much time was left. When I saw that there were only 20 minutes left I knew the ending was just going to be glossed over like the rest of the story. None of the characters were likable because none had any substance. They do a horrible job of explaining places, things, and people in the book. I didn\’t even know how old the main character was until halfway through the book and even that little tidbit was vague. It almost seemed like the authors were assigned random chapters of the book without being told what the story was actually about and then separated to write their own sections. I suffered through it, but I will be returning it. The story itself had great potential but the authors really failed to tell it. I DO NOT recommend this book.

Decent storyline but this story ends WAY too quickly. The book spends tons of time describing outfits hair eyes and walking of characters ect while evading the prime storyline, especially the ending I was expecting a great battle for an end with time spent within it. While I appreciate some description of the character and environmental aspects…in many ways I found it overdone and the ending I felt was VERY rushed. It left me very disappointed! Book two of this storyline is just as bad…and as of the third quarter of 2018, book 3 is not available on audio book. I will be requesting a refund of these books since they did not give me a feeling of adventure and satisfaction that I get with most books.

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