The Lost Lands of the Witch World by Andre Norton
Cover art by Daniel Dos Santos
Published by Tor Books
Reviewed by Leigh Kimmel
This volume brings together the second Witch World trilogy, which carries the story on to the three children of the original protagonists. The Witch World is a fascinating place, in which medieval-style derring-do and fairy-tale magic co-exist with ultra-tech.
But there are even greater secrets. For instance, why does the east seem to be blotted out of the awareness of everyone save these three children of a man from another world? When matters turn against them, they decide to flee in that direction, in hopes that this mysterious clouding of their opponents' minds might provide them some fragment of cover.
Instead Kyllan, Kemod and Kaththea find even greater perils in a land their distant ancestors shut away by raising a new mountain range. Each of the three siblings will find their own terrible testing, which will strip away all their illusions about themselves and force them to rebuild themselves from the foundation. Kaththea will face the possibility of losing all her magic forever, as she falls amidst a nomadic people in a rescue that is no rescue at all.
And there is teh mysterious city of a lost race, which may be located in another dimension altogether, removed in a different direction from the Witch World than Earth is. A city that may well be a trap for all three of them, unless they can reconnect with their missing parents and draw upon both their father's Terran heritage of technology and their mother's Witch-World heritage of magic.
Contents
- Introduction by Mercedes Lackey
- Three Against the Witch World
- Warlock of the Witch World
- Sorceress of the Witch World
Review posted December 15, 2008
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