Daughter of the Bear King [Paperback]

Eleanor Arnason (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1987

Sci-fi paperback by Eleanor Arnason. Housewife from Minneapolis becomes fighter of monsters.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm); First Edition edition (August 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380751097
• ISBN-13: 978-0380751099
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,974,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bear-sired hero, July 9, 2007

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Mona Albano "Documentation Consultant" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daughter of the Bear King (Paperback)

Eleanor Arnason tells of a housewife in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., in a life that never fully holds her attention. She dreams of a strange world and one day finds herself in it. It's a world where magic works and where the people know her and hail her as a long-awaited hero. She is the Bear King's daughter, with great strength and unusual healing powers. And she has been called here to fight a creeping and shadowy evil. She returns to Mineeapolis but is followed by monsters. Being a true bear and a shape-changer, she's not a typical wife and mother. She hassome of the bear's personality: instead of worrying about her grown-up children she returns to the other world, which she can help to save. By doing so, she removes the monsters from our unsuspecting world and returns to the task for which she was born.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book with fantasy Good-Evil struggle reconceived, December 15, 2010

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CJD - See all my reviews

This review is from: Daughter of the Bear King (Paperback)

I love this book and keep coming back to it for its fresh approach to the old fantasy tropes. The battle between good and evil is re-conceived as a battle for Quality over Shoddiness, a wonderful parable of our times. The characters have humour and vigor.

0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Her other books are supposed to be good, August 18, 2003

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SouthernFried "southernfried" (San Antonio, Tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Daughter of the Bear King (Paperback)

Picked this up at a used book store with about 20 others. Finally got around to reading it. Big mistake.

Finally put the book down with about 50 pages left to go. I guess that shows you how much I cared about how it ended. Characters were indifferent and impersonal. Storeyline had some potential...but, if you don't care about anybody in the story, what's the point?

I hear her other books are good. Some I've heard are even exceptional. Everyone has a bad day (book) I guess :). Very poor character development. Not a fun read at all.

SF