The Wizard and the Warlord [Mass Market Paperback]

Elizabeth Boyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 12, 1983

Paperback.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (July 12, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345307119
• ISBN-13: 978-0345307118
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #759,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, Correct Book but wrong Authors, June 5, 2003

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"allb" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wizard and the Warlord (Mass Market Paperback)

This book, Wizard and the War Machine is written by Gerrold and Niven, with Cybord and Wizards - it is fantastic and we want more, Elizabeth Hall Boyer wrote The Wizard and the Warlord which is also a fantastic book but bears no relation to the above reviews, with E H Boyer think Norse Gods, action and reality, you know the type that can make you feel the cold and waves of the sea, as if your there.

2.0 out of 5 stars Disjointed, August 11, 2011

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Skippy The Cat - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wizard and the Warlord (Mass Market Paperback)

Sigurd (the Hero) started out as a suspicious twit, and never changed. Some of the characters are inconsistent. Why would Ragnhild start fawning over the main character, after he helped 'magick' her horse into almost drowning her? I got the book for free, got my money's worth.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A hero so stupid, you wish he'd die, February 5, 2004

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Cynthia Baker "pseudo intellectual" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wizard and the Warlord (Mass Market Paperback)

Sigurd is neither smart nor clever nor mighty nor noble. He betrays his friends and is easily duped. The main appeal of this story lies in its antagonists: a treacherous wizard, a sly warlord, cunning infant-demon Mori, comical Hross-Bjorn.

Elegant descriptive prose and a fast pace fight to redeem a weak storyline ("What's in the box?") and repetitious dialogue. Deliciously macabre vignettes of opposing the undead monsters of Scandinavian folklore are strung together loosely to create a narrative where character motives are irrelevant to action scenes. Predictable plot twists wouldn't fool a child. Genocide or conquest seem the only solutions to racial unrest between Light Elves and Dark Elves. The denouement, mercifully short, tries to hint at deeper meaning, but misses.

This disaster of a novel is fortunately a quick (but not painless) read. Two stars are given for the gory and entertaining monsters.