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 |
Yep, which is why I'm willing to give a sequel a shot
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