"engaging confrontation that never slows down"
After Elena the Wit'ch triumphed in several confrontations
with the deadly Dark Lord including the destruction of the
Weirgates, she resides on the Rosewood Throne recovering
from her harrowing experiences with her husband Er'rill
providing solace. However her respite ends when Lord Tyrus
introduces Elena to Harlequin Quail, a jester serving as a
master spy just in from the cold of performing at the Dark
Lord's Blackhall keep. Harlequin claims that one Weirgate
mightier than the three just destroyed remains open but the
little man has no idea where it is, but that the Black
Heart must be stopped by Midsummer's Eve, only one moon
away. Elena and her companions begin the impossible quest to
obliterate the final Weirgate before the Dark Lord can
evilly use it. However, though keeping her own confidence
Elena knows deep inside her heart that in the end it will
be a duel to the death at high moon between she and he with
the future of the world as the stake. Though the story line is Tolkien fantasy with a good vs.
evil quest, fans of the series will delight in the fifth
Banned and the Banished novel, WIT'CH STAR. Apostrophe
apologies aside, the current tale is an engaging
confrontation that never slows down until the new scholars
determine why the Kelvish Scrolls became banned. The key
to these novels is that recurring characters never lose
their essence though they grow, mature, and change inside
well-written quest-based story lines. James Clemens has
grown, matured, and changed as an author, which bewit'ches
his readers to want more works from the Commonwealth
scholars. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted December 1, 2002
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