Season of the spellsong [Unknown Binding]

Alan Dean Foster (Author)

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• ASIN: B00005XUZ0
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4.0 out of 5 stars May be a little much Spellsinger for anyone., October 19, 2004

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This review is from: Season of the spellsong

This volume is a special singly bound edition of the first three Spellsinger novels: Spellsinger, The Hour of the Gate, and The Day of Dissonance.

Three Spellsinger novels in a row might be a little bit much for a lot of people. But, given that the series degenerates rapidly after the first three, a potential new reader could pick up the three most worth reading in one volume.

For those of you not familiar with the Spellsinger concept the story goes like this: A bumbling student, Jon-Tom, from "our" world is pulled by a magic working turtle into an alternate world where animals talk and are self-conscious. Jon-Tom discovers that he can work magic in this world by playing and singing. Under the mentorship of the wizard who brought him there, he becomes a powerful source of good in the new world.

These three books are at their best when they do not take themselves too seriously. Jon-Tom and his abilities provide a launching spot for some truly awful music-based puns. I am old enough to *get* most of these puns, by the way, but I imagine that for a younger reader much of the music may be pretty dated.