The Wooden Sword (Walensor, No. 1)

by Lynn Abbey

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441908667
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Quite good ONLY if you have the next book

"You can't judge a book by it's cover" is all well and good, but all we have is blurbs and recommendations if we do not wish to read every single book in any given store. So I bought it because the blurb and the cover were interesting. After reading it, I was very disappointed to be left hanging in the midst of the story! I can get that in real Life! I want my happy ending! Sheesh! Now I find there Is Indeed a following book "Under the Web". I'll bite. But I really wold have prefered to have known ahead of time I was only getting half the story. My recommendation is to only purchase this book If you can get it with it's follow up, otherwise, skip it. The characters are good from my point of view because they do stupid things at the wrong time, act like idiots, but have a greater depth to themselves ... pretty much like real people. Sometimes they say one thing, and do another, while trying to be good, honorable people to their own minds. Just like the rest of us. It is my fervent wish that books were always offered bundled with the others in their series, not as an only point of sale, but for those of us who are interested, but dislike being left hanging. They could at least Mention it. Thank you for reading my two cents worth (grin) ~Mariance

Wonderful but loses momentum and interest near the end

"Of all the living things in Eyerlon, the trees were the oldest... and the wisest. A generation ago, the ancient forests of Walensor swallowed up the young princeling Dart. All the kingdom presumed him dead. But, enclosed in the bark of the oldest tree, Dart was still alive--a human vessel of the trees' greatest secrets ... and most powerful magic. Twenty years later, Dart was released. The trees had given him the most precious of gifts: A wooden sword, a harp, and timeless wisdom. The trees also gave him a great and terrible mission: To save his world from a powerful tyrant, a dark wizard of smoke... and fire."When I began reading this book I could not put it down. Following Berika and her frustration at not being able to reach the Web, her meeting with Dart, and their subsequent journey... this all was wonderful. However, about halfway through the book it began to lose the charm and style of the beginning and I began to lose interest. A good book for fantasy lovers, if you can pick a copy up.

A new world, and an unused plot

Running away from a marriage she does not want, Berika daughter of a shepard, prays to the forest goddess and finds Dart. Man, demon, fetch, you don't know, and the whole story takes you on a trip where you can not preguess the plot or the ending. The only problem with this book is that it is very much a lead in to the next book. Fortunately Lyn Abbey wrote the sequel 'Under the Web' instead of leaving us hanging. My big regret is that there isn't a whole series of these books. Lyn Abbey has a tendency to create a fascinating new world, write a book or two, and then drop it. On the other hand, Lyn Abbey's books never seem to accumulate the fame that they deserve, so perhaps somewhere there IS a third book, waiting to be published.