Andre norton elvenblood

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Released: Mar 15, ISBN: Format: Audiobook. About the author. Read more. More Audiobooks By Andre Norton. Related Audiobooks. Related Podcast Episodes. Sweet Sweet Fantasy feat. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3.

Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Elvenblood Halfblood Chronicles, 2. Mar 07, Leah rated it really liked it Shelves: own-the-book , fav-fantasy.

Honestly I was expecting more and I was going to give it 3 stars but I love the fantasy world of dragons and elves, half bloods, wizards etc too much to give it less. There were some great moments. I just feel like this book was a bit poorly written, felt off pace, felt like it was really 2two people trying to make a story that didn't really jive together.

The characters kinda run off into the south and meet a bunch of dark skinned folk and then they loop them into the war that I'm assuming is goi Honestly I was expecting more and I was going to give it 3 stars but I love the fantasy world of dragons and elves, half bloods, wizards etc too much to give it less.

The characters kinda run off into the south and meet a bunch of dark skinned folk and then they loop them into the war that I'm assuming is going to take part in the 3rd and final book.

Story felt kinda plain and simple. I like the intro into Dora too. Couldn't there have been a better villain? Elvenblood is a book about blood, and the power struggles between those you do know and those you don't. Sheyrena and Lorryn find their freedoms threatened, Sheyrena because her elven father arranges a marriage, and Lorryn because his father was human, not elven. So they must flee, and turn to Sheyrena's human slave who is strangely knowledgeable about dragons, Myre.

In the wake of a victory against elves, halfbloods like Shana, human wizards, and dragon shamans like her brother Keman have gathere Elvenblood is a book about blood, and the power struggles between those you do know and those you don't. In the wake of a victory against elves, halfbloods like Shana, human wizards, and dragon shamans like her brother Keman have gathered only to find that they aren't the only people seeking freedom, there are the human nomads and traders, the Iron People.

They must in the end forge themselves anew into a weapon against elves, while becoming a shield for their friends. Dec 11, Kogiopsis rated it liked it Shelves: reviewed. Read as part of my ongoing shelf audit. Verdict: Better than the first installment, but still not a keeper.

The plot of this book was, in general, more structured and engaging than the first, and new characters raised in and escaping from Elven society gave a nice new perspective. I feel First off, this book brought up the disempowered position of elven women a lot, but still didn't spare very much dignity, agency, or individuality for enslaved humans.

I Read as part of my ongoing shelf audit. It's not a great look for two white American women to highlight how hard it is to be a woman of the slaveholder class while giving 0 pagetime to the perspectives of their captives. There's a lot of history underlying that writing choice. Also, while the Iron People add an interesting element to the world, their presentation and characterization was kind of shallow, and in fact only three characters of this culture actually got, y'know, names and personalities though those boiled down largely to 'supportive of Protagonists' or 'opposed to Protagonist'.

And then there's what happened to Myre. I just keep thinking about the villain of a Tarma and Kethry story who, after assaulting women, was transformed to look like a woman and sent off to very likely be raped by his own men Myre's fate wasn't as bad, but it was uncomfortably cruel, especially in the context of a world which is already so full of cruelty.

But overall, I'm thinking it's no great loss that this series is probably dead in the water at this point. Apr 20, Lindsey rated it liked it Shelves: reviewed. I just don't get it. My dad says Andre Norton is a fantastic writer, and he's not the only one who's recommended her to me.

Maybe she and Lackey just don't make a great team? Maybe she hit a a dry run? Regardless, these ladies seemed to have missed the "Show, don't tell" chapter in "Writing Fiction All the voices are the same. It is rather inconvenient that Velnyar a I just don't get it. It is rather inconvenient that Velnyar and Haldor are left out of the deal—maybe we're supposed to assume they hooked up too?

I wasn't crazy about the first book, The Elvenbane , but interested enough to finish the trilogy. Now I think I'll send 3 back to the library and read the spoilers here on goodreads to satisfy any lingering curiosity for how it ends. Interesting in theory, but not worth my swiftly ticking time. View 2 comments. Aug 22, Dawn Livingston rated it it was amazing Shelves: you-have-to-read-this-book , worth-owning , my-favorites , worth-reading-at-least-once.

I loved this book. I couldn't wait to find out what happened next so much so that I almost gave up on the book, I kept putting it down because I couldn't stand the suspense. This may be my favorite fantasy trilogy and I haven't even read the 3rd story in the trilogy yet, Elvenborn. I did have some trouble getting into the book because I expected it to start with La I loved this book.

I did have some trouble getting into the book because I expected it to start with Lashana but it didn't so I had to get used to another character, a young elven woman. Read this if you like fantasy, especially if you like fantasy. This has got to be if not the best fantasy trilogy then one of them. I like it even more than I do Mercedes Lackey's Valdermar books though it's easier to relate to the Valdermar series because it's so easy to picture oneself as a Herald with a companion, being Chosen.

Worth reading again, worth buying. This series should be part of your core library not one you're going to get rid of when you periodically weed through your books to pare down your collection for the sake of space or a change in taste. So, I can say with certainty this is one of her best creations That sounds mean, but she's written so many books that seem to run together and this series definitely stands on it's own.

I just reread the first book and it was highly enjoyable even at this older age. All the little romances are so much more interesting than I'd first thought because I'd forgotten that almost all of the main characters are related to each other in some way! Half-siblings, cousins, half-cousins, foster siblings!

It's all very interesting. I remember liking Mero more than I did this time around. I can't wait to read the next one and see what's up!

Little 13 or 14 year-old me was excited and then progressively more disappointed! Apparently, Andre Norton died!? View 1 comment. I see that many really enjoyed this book and that many others found it, "not bad". I'm in a definite minority in rating it a 1 star book and maybe I'd consider going 2 stars except for one thing. I disliked it enough to lay it aside. I see flashes here of why many like this one and my one star rating is strictly subjective, it's my experience of the book.

The characters were a bit stock to begin with and I just couldn't get involved with them. The first one we meet, angry at what's been done to h I see that many really enjoyed this book and that many others found it, "not bad". The first one we meet, angry at what's been done to her as she looks at it and in a bad way. Yet I just didn't get drawn in to the story. It left me cold. When I met the Dragons I believe that the story is again supposed to draw us in and make us care about the participants.

I just never did. I'm sorry, but I just didn't care. I got through about 6 or 7 chapters and finally, as the saying goes, "laid it by". Please if this is your taste enjoy but I just don't.

As I've said about other books I suspect that I'm simply not the writers' target audience. The narrator's voice was to me staid and slow and I found the story horror death and all just a bit slow. So, try it for yourself. If it's your taste fine it's not mine however.

View all 4 comments. Sep 27, Leah rated it it was amazing Shelves: own-the-book , fav-fantasy. What a great story! And great characters! I really dig the 'coming of age' genre within the Fantasy world.

Elvenbane is very different than any other fantasy book I've ever read. Basic story: Feral human raised by dragons, learning her powers, and how she will fit into the world of humans, elven lords, half-bloods, and dragons.

I think some people rate this book low because it's a thick fantasy novel that is slow paced. You just need to accept that it's slow paced, understand that, learn from it, What a great story! You just need to accept that it's slow paced, understand that, learn from it, and move on. It bothers me when people say 'ahhhh nothing happens until like half way through the book wahhhh' - go read a quick and easy teen fantasy novel then.

This book is filled with great narrative and description and detail and I loved every moment of it. The human woman is a concubine to the elven king. This book is more sexual and political than I was expecting. Not necessarily sexual scenes but discussing it.

The human woman wants to be the concubine to the king but she doesn't want to get pregnant because then they would kill her 'half-blood' baby and possibly even her, else she would end up as a scullery maiden for the rest of her life.

She withers away in the dessert and a dragon comes along and see's her dying. Dragons are unheard of in this world and they want to keep it that way. But the dragon see's that the woman is pregnant and feels that it would be sinful to leave the innocent baby to die.

The dragon uses shape-shifting magical abilities to pull the baby out and the human woman perishes. The dragon doesn't know what to do about the baby and contemplates if the child is the Elvenbane and the prophecy has been put in place.

Her son Kenan takes care of Shana and teaches her dragon abilities. Kenan even has his own little pets lol that he sometimes feels tempted to eat but feels guilty for killing.

Shana isn't welcome among the kin and feels left out. She wonders if she was shape-shifted into being a human and is actually a dragon and part of the kin. She realizes she has other powers that kin doesn't.

She shows her powers by attacking a bully dragon and the kin get spooked and outcast her into the dessert. Kenan goes running after her to save her but is too late and a bunch of humans take Shana and are about to sell her to slave labor. She is sold off at a high price to a secret 'half-blood' clan and they teach her how to use more abilities. They are surprised at her strong powers.

Kenan then goes to Shana and he disguises himself as a half-blood. Meanwhile two new characters are introduced, Lord Dyrans the elven king son Valyn, and his close friend who is secretly a half-blood Mero aka Shadow. They run away and meet Shana and Kenan. Valyn and Shana are very attracted to eachother but Valyn calculates that Shana is probably his half-sister in which he is disgusted by his dirty thoughts of her.

Shana is hurt by this. She teaches Shadow of how to use his half-blood abilities but he's a slow learner. They are chased by Lord Dyrans army into Valyn's old friend Triana.

Triana tries to glamour Shadow into becoming her half-blood slave lover. Shadow gives in but then realizes after she murders one of her jealous old slave lovers in a blink of an eye that something is not right here. Shadow spies on Triana and realizes her intentions and learns that she is getting Lord Dyrans army to come and take Shana an Valyn.

Shana steals Triana's powers and portals back to the half-blood clan - The Citadel. Because of the portals loud entrance, the elves realized where they were hiding, and now they go under siege. The dragons are no secret now. Kenan runs back to his kin and proposes that they shouldn't be secret anymore and they should fight in the wizard war. Kenan duels with his challenger his sister and loses.

The moment he thinks he failed and is gong back to Shana empty handed half the kin join him, including Father Dragon. Father Dragon makes wisdom and explains how proud of them and that he's thought this all along and the fact that they came up with it on their own is great.

Turns out he was in the original wizard war and history is repeating itself but this time he wants to win. They meet Shana and Shana is so happy to see them, now they have a chance. Valyn sneaks into Lord Dyrans tent easily, probably because he is elven with no disguise. Valyn basically suicide bombs his father with magic and they both parish.

May 30, sj rated it really liked it Shelves: faeries-dragons-and-or-magic , re-read , yorwtfiw , more-times-than-i-can-count , group-read. Originally posted here as part of the 30 Day Book Challenge.

The topic for today makes me laugh. At least 10, but I think more. I owned this one, and since my small town library was never open more than 2 days a week during the summer, I did A LOT of re-reading. Cruel elves, shape-shifting dragons, half-bloods, slavery, bicorns - man, this book had it all.

I last re-read it Did I still love it? Hell yes. Sadly, though, there won't ever be a fourth book. I would have been all over it. I wonder if there's Halfblood Chronicles fanfic? Apr 12, Jorie rated it it was ok Shelves: reads , fantasy-high.

Hey, Reader! Do you like fully realized fantasy worlds, but don't want anything too fantastic to happen in them? Well, The Elvenbane has got you covered. Using the device of fading to black, the narrative will simply peter out when things get too exciting. Breathe easy as you read of protagonist Shana's mysterious half-elf helf?

There may be mind-reading, but it's just like regular dialogue, just using c Hey, Reader! There may be mind-reading, but it's just like regular dialogue, just using colons instead of quotation marks, so things don't get too crazy! There comes a point when Shana is cornered by an elf who may be friend or foe, who demands that he join her. She insists on mind-melding with him to see if he has any evil intentions, but worry not! You don't have to read all that!

The book will just jump three weeks ahead to when he's her traveling companion and love interest. It's as easy as that. You might sweat a little when Shana and her wizard buddies plan to rescue some children due to be executed, especially after the many long pages of their intricate planning.

Just when you think you'll have to read about their daring infiltration into an enemy's keep, there is a page break. Another character thereafter will tell you the plan went off without a hitch and the kids were saved. Since all the cool stuff is skipped over, you get to spend more time reading about: 1. Dragons telling other dragons how to parent 2. A dude we never see again checking into a hotel and eating lunch 3.

Shana reading history books in a dark room alone 4. Elves getting turned down for lays by other elves 5. It sure is a way to spend time. May 15, Wendi rated it it was ok. In The Elvenbane , a young fiery halfblood half elven, half human girl named Shana, is raised by a Kin of dragons.

After using her magic to defend her foster brother Keman, Shana is banished to the desert where she is captured by human servants of elven lords; races she thought no longer existed.

This collection of 13 captivating short stories and novellas written between and samples the wide range of Nebula Grand Master Norton's Tales of the Witch World 1 work.

The first six entries, set in the Witch World universe, depict Free Traders, alien invaders, magical gems and ""gentle fems"" a customary Andre Norton, Author, P. In a satisfying return to Norton's Time Trader world, a young man finds himself as he teaches guerrilla warfare to a feudal, nonterrestrial offshoot of humanity in order to prepare them properly for a future in which space- and time-traveling humans.

Librarian Fredericka Wing takes a summer job Andre Norton, Author, A. The further history of the Witchworld--set almost two generations after the Kolder War--is brought vividly to life by Nebula Grand Master Norton and Crispin the Starbridge series in their second collaboration, after Gryphon's Eyrie.

Schaub is credited as author of the two long tales comprising more than of the pages that, framed by a short introduction and afterword, make up this sequel to Storms of Victory, co-written by Nebula Grandmaster Norton and Griffin.

The excitement flags somewhat in the third book of Norton and Lackey's popular high fantasy series after The Elvenbane and Elvenblood. Where earlier volumes focused on humans and dragons, now elves come to the fore in a tale of the Mercedes Lackey provides an. The authors' sequel to their Derelict for Trade Forecasts, Jan.

The second novel to continue the senior author's classic Solar Queen saga of a tramp starship is a vast improvement over Redline the Stars , perhaps because here Norton, who's 84, is working with the talented Smith the Wren series. Former protagonists Ashen. After the crushing defeat at Carrhae of the Roman proconsul Crassus in 43 B. Begun in , the long-dormant series was first revived in the with Firehand, Was the cataclysmic blast that blew the island of Atlantis aka Thera to bits a natural disaster, or was it something more sinister?

In this latest fast-paced Time Traders adventure Echoes in Time, etc. Veterans Norton and Edghill's sequel to The Shadow of Albion fails to do full justice to its rich setting and promising premise an early 19th-century alternative world where the American Revolution never happened and where magical spells are Norton Scent of Magic and Edghill's Book of Moons collaboration shows how British history might have developed had the heirless Charles II been succeeded by his eldest bastard, the Duke of Monmouth, instead of by his unpopular brother James