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When Eric Banyon's flute playing accidentally frees elven noble Korendil from a magical prison, he suddenly finds himself caught up in a desperate fight against an evil elf lord who plans to conquer all of California.Tags
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This book is in fact two short book-ettes jammed into one paperback, but both are about the same characters, and in fact they are books one and two of a series of... five-ish? Unlike The Chrome Borne, which has books one and four of seven, just to confuse everyone.
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The first story is about how some evil elf wants to kill all the other elves who live in '80s California so that he can rule all the elves. Well, the ones who aren't dead. I think. And our three heroes, some elf guy called Korendil and a couple of Ren Faire musicians (Beth, a witch, and Eric, a Bard, some kind of wizard who uses music to cast spells), try to stop him. Oh, also Eric angsts about how he's totally in love with Beth and Kory, but they're already show more dating each other and Kory is an elf and a man and omg, his life is so hard.
The second story is about the same three trying to stop a different bad guy. Well, first they try to stop him kidnapping psychic people... which ends up with loads of people dying and the bad guy being possessed by some kind of weird monster from another dimension. Then they try to stop the possessed bad guy from deliberately starting an earthquake to destroy San Francisco. Which will somehow allow all the other weird monsters to come into this dimension. Or something.
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Anyway! A highly odd book, as expected from Mercedes Lackey, but actually less crazy than The Chrome Borne. And pretty amusing. show less
SPOILER WARNING!
The first story is about how some evil elf wants to kill all the other elves who live in '80s California so that he can rule all the elves. Well, the ones who aren't dead. I think. And our three heroes, some elf guy called Korendil and a couple of Ren Faire musicians (Beth, a witch, and Eric, a Bard, some kind of wizard who uses music to cast spells), try to stop him. Oh, also Eric angsts about how he's totally in love with Beth and Kory, but they're already show more dating each other and Kory is an elf and a man and omg, his life is so hard.
The second story is about the same three trying to stop a different bad guy. Well, first they try to stop him kidnapping psychic people... which ends up with loads of people dying and the bad guy being possessed by some kind of weird monster from another dimension. Then they try to stop the possessed bad guy from deliberately starting an earthquake to destroy San Francisco. Which will somehow allow all the other weird monsters to come into this dimension. Or something.
/END SPOILERS
Anyway! A highly odd book, as expected from Mercedes Lackey, but actually less crazy than The Chrome Borne. And pretty amusing. show less
A modern fairy tale. The characters are starting to get more fleshed out in this second book of the series. I am planning on reading more. Recommended to fantasy fans.
Okay, I'm sure it's not the best book in the world, but it's still one of my favorites and better than most of the rest in the series.
excellent series!
Originally published in two different parts: Knight of Ghosts and Shadows; Summoned to Tourney
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Fantasy fiction author Mercedes Richie Lackey was born in Chicago on June 24, 1950, and she received a B.S. from Purdue University in 1972. She is also a professional lyricist and has rehabilitated raptors. Lackey started writing her own short stories when her favorite science fiction and fantasy authors weren't producing new books fast enough for show more her. She began writing professionally with the encouragement of author C. J. Cherryh, whom Lackey had met at a science fiction convention. Many of Lackey's books, including the Queen's Own trilogy, the Vows and Honor series, Valdemar: family Spies, and the Last Herald-Mage and Mage Winds trilogies, take place in the imaginary world of Valdemar. She has authored numerous series, including the Bardic Voices series and a series of occult mysteries featuring Diana Tregarde, a modern-day witch. Lackey enjoys collaborating and has co-written books with authors such as C.J. Cherryh, Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mark Shepherd, and Ru Emerson. Her title Redoubt made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedicated to Russ Galen, a jewel among agents, Christy Marx, a true gem among women, And the musicians. dancers, and players of the California Renaissance Faires
Long may you wave-- - First words
- "Selfish, inconsiderate, irresponsible--"
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For that matter, so did she.
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