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First published January 1, 1981
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Andre Norton
698 books1,390 followersAndre Norton, born Alice Mary Norton, was a pioneering American author of science fiction and fantasy, widely regarded as the Grande Dame of those genres. She also wrote historical and contemporary fiction, publishing under the pen names Andre Alice Norton, Andrew North, and Allen Weston. She launched her career in 1934 with The Prince Commands, adopting the name “Andre” to appeal to a male readership. After working for the Cleveland Library System and the Library of Congress, she began publishing science fiction under “Andrew North” and fantasy under her own name. She became a full-time writer in 1958 and was known for her prolific output, including Star Man’s Son, 2250 A.D. and Witch World, the latter spawning a long-running series and shared universe. Norton was a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America and authored Quag Keep, the first novel based on the Dungeons & Dragons game. She influenced generations of writers, including Lois McMaster Bujold and Mercedes Lackey. Among her many honors were being the first woman named Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master. In her later years, she established the High Hallack Library to support research in genre fiction. Her legacy continues with the Andre Norton Award for young adult science fiction and fantasy.
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January 30, 2017
This story starts slowly, then picks up pace to "Go away reality, don't you understand *I'm*reading!*" levels by the end.
The interesting idea of fantasy colonists passing through portals to settle a new world got me through the first half. This is a scenario more usual in SF and it was a different experience to see it through the eyes of people who have to worry about enchantments as well as if their crops will grow in the soil.
By the second half things had kicked off with our magic using hard-as-nails heroine and determined if naive warrior off on their quest (avoiding spoilers), travelling through the ruins of a vanished civilisation with wonderfully used pseudoceltic references.
A great read!
The interesting idea of fantasy colonists passing through portals to settle a new world got me through the first half. This is a scenario more usual in SF and it was a different experience to see it through the eyes of people who have to worry about enchantments as well as if their crops will grow in the soil.
By the second half things had kicked off with our magic using hard-as-nails heroine and determined if naive warrior off on their quest (avoiding spoilers), travelling through the ruins of a vanished civilisation with wonderfully used pseudoceltic references.
A great read!
October 14, 2017
Quite serendipitously I ran across this recent review of Horn Crown by Judith Tarr on Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/2017/10/09/coming..., which does a good job of covering the book and with which I'm mostly in agreement.
January 28, 2013
For the first time in this re-reading of the Witch World novels, I'm disappointed.
As noted in the last review, there's an awful lot of "geas", men & women unable to do anything but what is fated. In this story, we come to a really annoying denoument when Norton, apparently completely misunderstanding the point of the three-part Goddess, allows . Gag me!
As noted in the last review, there's an awful lot of "geas", men & women unable to do anything but what is fated. In this story, we come to a really annoying denoument when Norton, apparently completely misunderstanding the point of the three-part Goddess, allows . Gag me!
April 23, 2022
This is a solid entry into the High Hallack fantasy series. The first person narrator begins as a quite limited and parochial figure and slowly becomes more aware of a deeper significance to apparently local events. As is usually the case in Andre Norton’s Estcarp and High Hallack books the most interesting characters are women.
The plot follows the usual quest pattern and the fantasy world is vividly created. Perhaps the ending is rather over elaborated and too “tidy” but overall the book is enjoyable.
The plot follows the usual quest pattern and the fantasy world is vividly created. Perhaps the ending is rather over elaborated and too “tidy” but overall the book is enjoyable.
June 15, 2021
For the last book in the series, this was a disappointment. Plus, lots of typos in the ebook edition I read. It goes back to explain the beginning at the end, what transpired at the first coming of the Dalesmen through a portal to settle the lands discussed in this High Halleck cycle.
It's a very predictable, slow tale of a young man who loses his clan connection but not his honor, on a slow searching quest to save a maiden from evil forces. Along the way he meets and is aided by an assertive, independent girl who finds him exasperating and just wants to leave him behind. But fate and greater forces at work have different plans for the two, as we all can tell immediately. Their trek is laborious, with intermittent encounters with evil forces, but also with more powerful good ones that seem to have chosen them for something very special.
The conclusion draws on many earth religion and wiccan traditions many readers will probably be aware of, and seems inevitable as the way to end this particular novel.
It's a very predictable, slow tale of a young man who loses his clan connection but not his honor, on a slow searching quest to save a maiden from evil forces. Along the way he meets and is aided by an assertive, independent girl who finds him exasperating and just wants to leave him behind. But fate and greater forces at work have different plans for the two, as we all can tell immediately. Their trek is laborious, with intermittent encounters with evil forces, but also with more powerful good ones that seem to have chosen them for something very special.
The conclusion draws on many earth religion and wiccan traditions many readers will probably be aware of, and seems inevitable as the way to end this particular novel.
December 16, 2022
Elron has holes in his memory, as does every other member of his people that came through the Gate from High Halleck. They know they fled some great danger, and that they agreed to have their memories of that danger as well as some other subjects erased for reasons that seemed like a good idea at the time. The new land they’ve come to is empty of human or humanoid inhabitants, though there are ruins and other traces of the former population. This does not mean, of course, that the land is free of peril.
The various clans separate to take up life in allotted sections of their new country. Elron is a lowly guard in the service of his clan chief Garn, who chooses the northmost dale in the recently explored territory. (The newcomers will eventually be known as Dalesmen.) The clan sets about turning the dale into a new home. Once there is a space to breathe, Elron and other guards start patrolling the territory. On the southern ridge that marks the border of their territory with the less than friendly clan of Lord Tugness is a remnant of the former inhabitants, a mysterious Moon Shrine.
While patrolling that area, Elron meets Gathea, an apprentice wise woman, and her local ally, the great cat Gruu. Gathea has a particular interest in the shrine, and can enter it, while Elron cannot. More worrying, Elron begins seeing Garn’s daughter Iynne hanging around the shrine, instead of staying away from it, as all but patrol guards should do (and even they are under orders to not touch it.) He warns the lady off, and she begs him not to tell anyone, which he foolishly agrees to.
Sure enough, while most of the clan is away gathering food in a distant part of the dale, Iynne vanishes. Elron confesses that he’s been keeping secrets and Garn strikes him from the clan. Now homeless and kinless, Elron decides he should at least try to find Iynne and fetch her back to her father to expiate his error. He heads to Tugness’ land to consult the wise woman Zabina. She hints that Tugness’ son Thorg, an unpleasant fellow, may have had something to do with the disappearance as he’s been pretty desperate for a woman and did not have an arranged marriage to fall back on.
Returning to the Moon Shrine to look for clues, Elron runs into Gathea and Gruu. Gathea is dismissive of the notion that Thorg is responsible, as she was waiting for the Moon Shrine to unlock a greater power in her at the right moment, and Iynne seems to have gotten there first, despite her utter lack of the proper training. Nevertheless, the trail leads west. She has no interest in teaming up with the magicless and ignorant Elron, but he has nothing better to do than continue on his quest. So they start on their perilous journey.
The “Witch World” was a fantasy setting created by Andre Norton in her 1963 novel of the same name. This much later written entry in the series is a prequel which traces the first days of the Dalesmen that the heroes of the chronologically later stories interact with.
Who or what the Dalesmen are fleeing is a mystery not revealed in this book, though it may have played a part in the other entries. One of the effects of the amnesia is that, other than “why we did this”, the newcomers don’t know what it is that they’ve forgotten, and there’s no obvious seams where they can say “this has been removed.”
More important to the current plotline is discovering how the new environment and the mysterious Powers work. It’s not exactly clear where the old inhabitants went or why, but they left behind their magic and the vast Powers that contend between light and darkness. There are places of wonder, and places that are deadly traps.
The first part of the journey has Elron being something of a load, as he knows nothing of magic, and his warrior skills are pointless against the mystic dangers they’re facing. It’s understandable that Gathea is irritated by having to drag him along.
But then the two are separated for a considerable period of time. Elron gets to actually fight a monster and more or less win, comes into contact with the beginnings of his own inner power, and awakens to his heterosexuality.
When the two reunite, it’s clear that Gathea has not been doing well on her own, even with the help of Gruu. She only begrudgingly admits that Elron has grown, and keeps withholding information that could help him to understand and use his powers to best effect. He finally has to bully her into spitting out some exposition that has enough hints to move the plot forward.
And that’s one of the areas where this novel shies away from the typical fantasy journey progression. Instead of the two companions starting at odds and slowly beginning to trust and even like each other, Gathea doesn’t really have positive character development. She’ll “save” Iynne, sure, but only to take back what the other woman “stole” from her. She resents that her training has been step by cautious step, and eagerly seeks out the Power that will allow her to shortcut her magical development. Even when she sees that Elron has a connection to magic, she refuses to give him credit for it, and is not at all happy to have to rely on him.
Eventually, Elron has to do the heavy lifting to rescue Iynne once she’s located, and it’s part of his character development that he realizes that while he’s known her all their lives, he really knows nothing of her internal life or actual personality.
And then Elron rescues Gathea from her preferred life path of celibate witchery as they suddenly realize they love each other. Somehow. I am really not feeling this couple as a long-term relationship.
There’s some interesting ideas here, but I just can’t buy that this is a “happy” ending. Despite being the chronological beginning of the story, this would not be a good place to start your exploration of Witch World.
Content note: sexism, Thorg is a stalker.
The various clans separate to take up life in allotted sections of their new country. Elron is a lowly guard in the service of his clan chief Garn, who chooses the northmost dale in the recently explored territory. (The newcomers will eventually be known as Dalesmen.) The clan sets about turning the dale into a new home. Once there is a space to breathe, Elron and other guards start patrolling the territory. On the southern ridge that marks the border of their territory with the less than friendly clan of Lord Tugness is a remnant of the former inhabitants, a mysterious Moon Shrine.
While patrolling that area, Elron meets Gathea, an apprentice wise woman, and her local ally, the great cat Gruu. Gathea has a particular interest in the shrine, and can enter it, while Elron cannot. More worrying, Elron begins seeing Garn’s daughter Iynne hanging around the shrine, instead of staying away from it, as all but patrol guards should do (and even they are under orders to not touch it.) He warns the lady off, and she begs him not to tell anyone, which he foolishly agrees to.
Sure enough, while most of the clan is away gathering food in a distant part of the dale, Iynne vanishes. Elron confesses that he’s been keeping secrets and Garn strikes him from the clan. Now homeless and kinless, Elron decides he should at least try to find Iynne and fetch her back to her father to expiate his error. He heads to Tugness’ land to consult the wise woman Zabina. She hints that Tugness’ son Thorg, an unpleasant fellow, may have had something to do with the disappearance as he’s been pretty desperate for a woman and did not have an arranged marriage to fall back on.
Returning to the Moon Shrine to look for clues, Elron runs into Gathea and Gruu. Gathea is dismissive of the notion that Thorg is responsible, as she was waiting for the Moon Shrine to unlock a greater power in her at the right moment, and Iynne seems to have gotten there first, despite her utter lack of the proper training. Nevertheless, the trail leads west. She has no interest in teaming up with the magicless and ignorant Elron, but he has nothing better to do than continue on his quest. So they start on their perilous journey.
The “Witch World” was a fantasy setting created by Andre Norton in her 1963 novel of the same name. This much later written entry in the series is a prequel which traces the first days of the Dalesmen that the heroes of the chronologically later stories interact with.
Who or what the Dalesmen are fleeing is a mystery not revealed in this book, though it may have played a part in the other entries. One of the effects of the amnesia is that, other than “why we did this”, the newcomers don’t know what it is that they’ve forgotten, and there’s no obvious seams where they can say “this has been removed.”
More important to the current plotline is discovering how the new environment and the mysterious Powers work. It’s not exactly clear where the old inhabitants went or why, but they left behind their magic and the vast Powers that contend between light and darkness. There are places of wonder, and places that are deadly traps.
The first part of the journey has Elron being something of a load, as he knows nothing of magic, and his warrior skills are pointless against the mystic dangers they’re facing. It’s understandable that Gathea is irritated by having to drag him along.
But then the two are separated for a considerable period of time. Elron gets to actually fight a monster and more or less win, comes into contact with the beginnings of his own inner power, and awakens to his heterosexuality.
When the two reunite, it’s clear that Gathea has not been doing well on her own, even with the help of Gruu. She only begrudgingly admits that Elron has grown, and keeps withholding information that could help him to understand and use his powers to best effect. He finally has to bully her into spitting out some exposition that has enough hints to move the plot forward.
And that’s one of the areas where this novel shies away from the typical fantasy journey progression. Instead of the two companions starting at odds and slowly beginning to trust and even like each other, Gathea doesn’t really have positive character development. She’ll “save” Iynne, sure, but only to take back what the other woman “stole” from her. She resents that her training has been step by cautious step, and eagerly seeks out the Power that will allow her to shortcut her magical development. Even when she sees that Elron has a connection to magic, she refuses to give him credit for it, and is not at all happy to have to rely on him.
Eventually, Elron has to do the heavy lifting to rescue Iynne once she’s located, and it’s part of his character development that he realizes that while he’s known her all their lives, he really knows nothing of her internal life or actual personality.
And then Elron rescues Gathea from her preferred life path of celibate witchery as they suddenly realize they love each other. Somehow. I am really not feeling this couple as a long-term relationship.
There’s some interesting ideas here, but I just can’t buy that this is a “happy” ending. Despite being the chronological beginning of the story, this would not be a good place to start your exploration of Witch World.
Content note: sexism, Thorg is a stalker.
May 19, 2020
Frustrating. This has some really great scenes, such as Elron's confrontation with the dark powers as they try to pull a Rosemary's Baby on an innocent virgin. And the story is reasonably solid. But the flaws bug me too much for a higher rating.
This is a kind of Secret Origin for the Dales: humans from another world flee to the Witch World which is abandoned, but oops there are evil things lurking and the newcomers stir them up. So it's really no different from what happened to the Tregarth triplets in Escore, or Kieron in the Waste in earlier books.
And compared to the interesting women in the previous Witch World book, Gatthea and Iynne suck: Gatthea's non-stop arrogant and Iynne is a clueless dupe of the dark. And as others have pointed out, the ending has coercive overtones and certainly doesn't respect Gatthea's choices (which isn't typical for Norton).
This is a kind of Secret Origin for the Dales: humans from another world flee to the Witch World which is abandoned, but oops there are evil things lurking and the newcomers stir them up. So it's really no different from what happened to the Tregarth triplets in Escore, or Kieron in the Waste in earlier books.
And compared to the interesting women in the previous Witch World book, Gatthea and Iynne suck: Gatthea's non-stop arrogant and Iynne is a clueless dupe of the dark. And as others have pointed out, the ending has coercive overtones and certainly doesn't respect Gatthea's choices (which isn't typical for Norton).
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April 29, 2015Fulsome (and inaccurate) blurbs to the contrary, this is definitely not one of Norton's better books. Many of her books recycle common settings, themes, etc--this is one.
That said, it's the only real novel set during the settlement of the Dales of High Hallack, and provides necessary prequel information for works set in later times, though written earlier.
Fair warning, however: this book essentially condones rape. The female hero is not technically forced into a sexual relationship despite a commitment to celibacy--but she's psychologically manipulated (by Gunnora, of all people) to believe that a celibate life is essentially perverse. It'd be easier for all concerned if the gods would stop meddling in people's love lives.
That said, it's the only real novel set during the settlement of the Dales of High Hallack, and provides necessary prequel information for works set in later times, though written earlier.
Fair warning, however: this book essentially condones rape. The female hero is not technically forced into a sexual relationship despite a commitment to celibacy--but she's psychologically manipulated (by Gunnora, of all people) to believe that a celibate life is essentially perverse. It'd be easier for all concerned if the gods would stop meddling in people's love lives.
December 25, 2025
I found this book to be so so. Admittedly I’ve not read anything else of this series and possibly would have enjoyed it more if I had. The pacing was off to me, some parts dragged, but generally it just seemed to rush through the story without explaining anything. And the end got weirdly sexual which was just out of place with the rest of the story.
August 8, 2008
Much weaker to me than the previous Witch World books. I might say 2 and 1/2 stars.
March 29, 2016
I would rate 2.5 stars if halfs were allowed.
April 4, 2022
First of all, I want to say that André Norton is one of my very favorite authors, and her legacy is unbelievably rich and abundant. Some of her books I have read several times and enjoyed them each time. Some have actually helped me make it through some very hard times in my life. I am forever grateful to her.
But the greatest artists - authors, painters, musicians - inevitably produce a clunker here and there.
To echo several others' reviews, I am sadly disappointed in trying to reread *Horn Crown* after thirty years - the book that promised (but never delivered) some kind of intriguing backstory for the mass migration of the new occupants into High Hallack.
Now I remember how grim, sluggish, and frustrating the beginning was, how I was constantly annoyed by the impatient, arrogant Gathea, how dissatisfied I was with the conclusion which should have been preceded by much more evolution of character, resulting in a conclusion of greater balance and mutual consent unswayed by the 'higher powers'. Not with a plaintive, weakening appeal to hard-hearted Dians (obviously the Greek/Roman goddess Artemis/Diana - quite cold and cruel - just ask Sipriotes and Actaeon). And how Kurnous (obviously the Celtic Cernunnos) never appears in the mythos of a single one of the other stories. And what happens next?
(Norton did seem to have an occasional problem with "tying up" a satisfying conclusion - sometimes leaving the reader hanging on for a sequel that never came - e.g., *Uncharted Stars*, with quite a rushed, bewildering mess of an end...never "cleaned up" by any sequel.)
I found that I could only skim this book this time - and scanning the conclusion, finally had to put it down out of boredom and irritation. It came back to me that it offers nothing new to the big questions about the background of the new occupants of High Hallack, and I had had enough of Gathea after only a few chapters.
But my sequence of re-reads was not suitable for this novel to be next in line. After *Moon of Three Rings*, *Toys of Tamisan*, *Crystal Gryphon*, (which is my favorite of all), *Gryphon in Glory*, 'Dragon Scale Silver', *Songsmith*, *The Magestone* - with stories that grip you from start to finish, and portray warm, strong female heros like Maelen, Tamisan, Joisan, Elys, Eydryth, and Mereth, all of whom a reader (even a gay man) cannot help but love....
But the greatest artists - authors, painters, musicians - inevitably produce a clunker here and there.
To echo several others' reviews, I am sadly disappointed in trying to reread *Horn Crown* after thirty years - the book that promised (but never delivered) some kind of intriguing backstory for the mass migration of the new occupants into High Hallack.
Now I remember how grim, sluggish, and frustrating the beginning was, how I was constantly annoyed by the impatient, arrogant Gathea, how dissatisfied I was with the conclusion which should have been preceded by much more evolution of character, resulting in a conclusion of greater balance and mutual consent unswayed by the 'higher powers'. Not with a plaintive, weakening appeal to hard-hearted Dians (obviously the Greek/Roman goddess Artemis/Diana - quite cold and cruel - just ask Sipriotes and Actaeon). And how Kurnous (obviously the Celtic Cernunnos) never appears in the mythos of a single one of the other stories. And what happens next?
(Norton did seem to have an occasional problem with "tying up" a satisfying conclusion - sometimes leaving the reader hanging on for a sequel that never came - e.g., *Uncharted Stars*, with quite a rushed, bewildering mess of an end...never "cleaned up" by any sequel.)
I found that I could only skim this book this time - and scanning the conclusion, finally had to put it down out of boredom and irritation. It came back to me that it offers nothing new to the big questions about the background of the new occupants of High Hallack, and I had had enough of Gathea after only a few chapters.
But my sequence of re-reads was not suitable for this novel to be next in line. After *Moon of Three Rings*, *Toys of Tamisan*, *Crystal Gryphon*, (which is my favorite of all), *Gryphon in Glory*, 'Dragon Scale Silver', *Songsmith*, *The Magestone* - with stories that grip you from start to finish, and portray warm, strong female heros like Maelen, Tamisan, Joisan, Elys, Eydryth, and Mereth, all of whom a reader (even a gay man) cannot help but love....
May 13, 2019
Lud Hallack, uciekając przed niebezpieczeństwem zagrażającym ich rasie, kierowany przez Mieczowych Braci, przechodzi przez bramę, by trafić do nowej, górzystej krainy, która później ma być znana pod nazwą High Hallack. Iynne z klanu Garna nierozważnie wchodzi do miejsca Mocy i zostaje porwana przez złe moce. Jej krewny Elroni i Gathea, młoda dziewczyna, uczennica Mądrej Kobiety, Zabiny, wyruszają by ją uwolnić. Muszą zmierzyć się z niebezpieczną, nieznaną krainą i bronić przed magicznymi stworami Ciemności. Elron otrzymuje puchar Myśliwego i zostaje wasalem Rogatego Pana. Razem z Gunnorą, Bursztynową Panią, muszą przeciwstawić się Raidhan, Pani Ciemnego Księżyca i jej sługom.
December 22, 2023
While part of Norton's Witch World cycle, this book can be read independently of any others. This is a story about how humans first came to Witch World. Elron and Gathea, two outsiders in their culture, look to forge their own paths in this new land. Norton's prose is exemplary. The world is mysterious and fascinating. And in only 200 pages, Norton crafts a compelling story that doesn't feel overwrought, but definitely wanting more.
August 16, 2018
Andre Norton at Her Best
Classic Andre Norton, retelling and combining old myths from more than one culture, all assembled and presented through an engrossing tale.
Although this story stands nicely alone, and needs no knowledge of any of the other Witch World books to enjoy and appreciate, it is richer for participation in the the whole cycle, and makes them richer as well.
Classic Andre Norton, retelling and combining old myths from more than one culture, all assembled and presented through an engrossing tale.
Although this story stands nicely alone, and needs no knowledge of any of the other Witch World books to enjoy and appreciate, it is richer for participation in the the whole cycle, and makes them richer as well.
July 2, 2023
I love going back to a book I haven't read in years. With some I wonder what I loved about the story and with others, like Horn Crown, I remember.
I've been reading Andre Norton's books since I was fourteen and have scoured libraries and bookstores to find ALL her books. Re-reading Horn Crown I thought I would get bored. Despite the fact that I don't really get much time for reading, however, I found the time to finish this one. I love how she sets up the landscape and the personalities before we're off and running into adventure.
The Witch World Series has been one of my favorites (The Beast Master being the other). I was surprised and delighted as I was enthralled with that world, so medieval, so magical and, many times, unexpected. I think I'm going to go back ... to get enthralled all over again ...
I've been reading Andre Norton's books since I was fourteen and have scoured libraries and bookstores to find ALL her books. Re-reading Horn Crown I thought I would get bored. Despite the fact that I don't really get much time for reading, however, I found the time to finish this one. I love how she sets up the landscape and the personalities before we're off and running into adventure.
The Witch World Series has been one of my favorites (The Beast Master being the other). I was surprised and delighted as I was enthralled with that world, so medieval, so magical and, many times, unexpected. I think I'm going to go back ... to get enthralled all over again ...
October 18, 2018
Everything she wrote is five stars!
I have been reading her books since I was a child, I am now 69, soon to be 70. Her books never grow old or stale, they never will. Her books are for people of all ages.
I have been reading her books since I was a child, I am now 69, soon to be 70. Her books never grow old or stale, they never will. Her books are for people of all ages.
November 28, 2023
More entertaining stories by Andre Norton.
November 17, 2025
31/2⭐️.
January 16, 2017
Getting back into the Witch World re-reads, I decided to try and read them chronologically as much as possible, as opposed to publishing date. So, even though this was published in 1981, it tells a story from the early days of High Hallack, starting with the coming of the Dalesmen.
Like Escarp, although to a lesser degree, High Hallack does not see men as being able to work with power and Gathea certainly believes it and it causes her to disdain the role that Elron has to play in their combined search and through much of the book.
Elron, unlike most Dalesmen, is open to the power of Gunnora and gives her the respect and honour due her, which ultimately drives the denoument. Gunnora is more open and balanced than Dains or what drives Gathea. Although there could have been a more balanced ending perhaps...
Like Escarp, although to a lesser degree, High Hallack does not see men as being able to work with power and Gathea certainly believes it and it causes her to disdain the role that Elron has to play in their combined search and through much of the book.
Elron, unlike most Dalesmen, is open to the power of Gunnora and gives her the respect and honour due her, which ultimately drives the denoument. Gunnora is more open and balanced than Dains or what drives Gathea. Although there could have been a more balanced ending perhaps...
November 11, 2015
A bit more interesting than the last few Witch World novels I've read, going back to the origin of the Dales settlers. There's still the issue of plot-coupons-from-the-past, but this time the protagonist had to expend some effort to figure out what was going on and act. Not an obvious "ending point" as such; Witch World is a setting of interwoven tales rather than a series. But it's a good place to rest for now.
October 17, 2015
Another crowning achievement from Andre Norton
One of my favorite of Andre Norton's works. Different than much of her work in building a back story to other stories in the group but stands on its own in a way that pulls you in, gives you a feeling that anything can be overcome regardless of how difficult the challenge
One of my favorite of Andre Norton's works. Different than much of her work in building a back story to other stories in the group but stands on its own in a way that pulls you in, gives you a feeling that anything can be overcome regardless of how difficult the challenge
November 16, 2008
This is it at I - the very first Sci Fi/Fantasy book that. I ever read. I'd like to get my hands on another copy and read it again - I still remember bits of it that have stuck with me for 35 or so years....
September 19, 2011
Loved the background leading into Year of the Unicorn but have never reread it.
October 18, 2014
Fleeing evil through a magic gate, a group of people enter a new world where they will face new enemies and adjustments to the environment. This is a good, clean young adult fantasy.
August 9, 2016
I was very interested in the world and want to read more of these. But finding them is a bit of a stretch. And figuring out what order they go in.....
June 20, 2014
Engaging and richly developed world and characters, kept me reading. ^_^
July 23, 2015
Hmm. I'm reserving judgment on the series.
May 20, 2016
A light read to clear cobwebs out of the mind. I wonder if the book was made into a movie how many of the nude women would be portrayed? Oops, not a big spoiler.
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