Song Of Sorcery [Import] [Paperback]

Elizabeth Scarborough (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books; paperback / softback edition (1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553172824
• ISBN-13: 978-0553172829
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Altogether I've written and collaborated on 38 novels, 22 solo and 16 in collaboration with the fabulous Anne McCaffrey.
Among my solo novels is THE HEALER'S WAR, the 1989 Nebula Award winner for best novel, loosely based on my experiences as a nurse in Vietnam.
I have also written a traditional, though humorous, 4-book fantasy series, SONGS FROM THE SEASHELL ARCHIVES, a feminist Arabian Nights fantasy, two fantasies set in the Wild West and the Yukon Goldrush respectively, my obligatory science fiction writer's apocalypse book and the sequel, both set in Tibet, and three books about folk music and magic that made a big hit with the Library of Congress Folk Music Archives, which I blew up in the first book. Three of my books are about fairy godmothers, one is about Christmas and computers, one features Sir Walter Scott in a Victorian gothic mystery set in Edinburgh, and two are about Queen Cleopatra as the living "Past life" of two different women.
Just last week I released for the first time anywhere, a new e-book (available soon as Print on Demand as well), SPAM VS THE VAMPIRE. Spam is a cat whose mistress disappears suddenly, leaving him and his 14 feline housemates alone and soon to starve. When someone breaks into the house, Spam takes the opportunity to escape into the outside world, where he's actually never been before, to hunt for his human, or at least some other human to feed and care for him and his friends until their friend Darcy comes back. The more he hunts, the more he becomes sure that she is not going to be coming back on her own.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Hilarious!, October 27, 1998

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[e-mail] (Hollywood, Cali) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Song of Sorcery (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was incredibly full of wit and humor that I was laughing almost every time I turned a page. Colin Songsmith sings a local song to an old witch who takes an unlikely revenge. Her granddaughter rescues him from a certain death of being eaten alive by the cat and hears the song herself which happens to concern her recently married sister and a gypsy. Convinced that she has to save her sister, she takes the minstrel, the cat and her magical resources towards Rowan Castle. I absolute recommend this book to anyone who's looking for a good time.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deliciously irreverent, December 7, 2004

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Mylene M. "MORASS" (Batangas City, Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Song of Sorcery (Paperback)

As in most fantasies, "Song of Sorcery" thrives on description of its setting and encounters with creatures who could not have been anything but not real, i.e., a talking cat, a lovesick dragon, and a bear prince (who unfortunately cannot be kissed to perfection).

Although there are drab and dragging moments, times when you want to say "enough already" with the descriptions, the story successfully combines the traditional concept of fantasy-fiction and modern-speak. The characters deliciously mouth off slang which, under different circumstances, would have been out of place. Scarborough controls her prose up to a point and also manages to have fun with her characters. Of course, you expect good to triumph over evil and a happily-ever-after but you also want to look at the places and converse with the characters. When it ends, it is as if you were saying goodbye to them. You can always turn the pages back but the first time pleasures and hurts like no other. (Sounds like something one would say about sex.)

But yes, it's also true that I'm partial to stories that flat out couldn't have been real. I suspend my disbelief longer, I tend to be more accepting of implausibility. There can be that "one true love" and I wouldn't mind if the characters wait for 100 years for it to come. At least, I know it will come. And 100 years would only be a number of pages.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a different view of witches and unicorns for its time, November 11, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Song of Sorcery (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is set in medieval(somewhat) times and yet the heroine is not your typical, old time witch. The author uses light humor and familar themes to tell a wonderful story. This book always makes me smile and reach for more of her Unicorn stories.