Previous SFF Author: Scott McCloud
(1946- )
Lyn McConchie is the author of more than a dozen books, including more than a half dozen collaborations with Andre Norton. Three-time winner of New
Zealand’s highest SF/Fantasy honor, the Lord Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, she lives in Norsewood, New Zealand. Learn more at Lyn McConchie’s website.
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The Beast Master by Andre Norton
I first found Andre Norton on the shelves of my elementary school library in fourth grade. I have no idea which of her novels was the first one I read. I just know whichever one it was, it was far from the last. One after the other, bound only by whatever limit our library put on me, I read all I could find on the shelves. And then I read them again. And then again. By the time I left that school in sixth grade,
Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie | Audio | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
The Questing Road by Lyn McConchie
New Zealand author Lyn McConchie has written several novels with Andre Norton in that author’s WITCH WORLD and BEAST MASTER universes, so I was surprised that The Questing Road, though officially McConchie’s first solo fantasy novel, actually reads much like a debut novel. While there are a few moments of charm and sparkle, the characters are so flat, and the writing so uneven, that I would have easily believed this to be someone’s first attempt at a novel.
Stefan Raets´s rating: 1 | Lyn McConchie | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Previous SFF Author: Scott McCloud
Pretty challenging book. Cut by half, speed up the cadence. Trying to figure out the plot, the main point of…
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…