Elizabeth Kerner
Paperback | Pages: 401 pages Rating: 3.95 | 5356 Users | 197 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Song in the Silence (The Tale of Lanen Kaelar) |
| ISBN: | 0812550447 (ISBN13: 9780812550443) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Tale of Lanen Kaelar #1 |
| Characters: | Lanen Kaelar |
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Lanen Kaelar has spent her life being told just how wrongheaded and foolish she is by her entire family. When Lanen's father dies, she chooses to leave her abusive relatives and search out the great dragons she has always dreamed of, though she knows what she seeks may not be real. But those who hold true power know that prophecies have been told of Lanen Kaelar since before her birth. They fear the destiny she may fulfill, the mysteries she may unravel--and the strange and terrifying love she may find on the legendary Dragon Isle.Point About Books Song in the Silence (The Tale of Lanen Kaelar #1)
| Title | : | Song in the Silence (The Tale of Lanen Kaelar #1) |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Kerner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 401 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 1998 by Tor Fantasy (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Dragons. Romance. High Fantasy. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 5356 Users | 197 ReviewsWrite-Up About Books Song in the Silence (The Tale of Lanen Kaelar #1)
All of you who love science fiction, a fantastic plot, a tear jerking love story, and beautiful imagery and writing all rolled into one... look no further. This series has it all, and Elizabeth Kerner had me hooked within the first page. The tale of Lanen as she follows her dreams to the dragon isle is one that I revisit often. It never fails to invoke the same emotional reaction it always did, appealing to me both as a young adult(when I first read it), and an adult(When I read it the second...This book is a total fluff book. And I love it to pieces. As a young teen, I scoured the library for every fantasy book involving dragons. I loved dragon fantasies like some other people like werewolves or vampires (I'm looking at you, Twilight fans!). And some of these books were very silly and fluffy. But they usually didn't have too much romance, because I thought romance was altogether too gooey and distracted too much from the much more important business of fighting monsters and having
Every once in a while I find myself wanting to read a book that has dragons in it. They are such a fun fantasy creature! I had high hopes for Song in the Silence and though the premise of the plot isn't bad, the executions of the story left something to be desired. It all begins at a place called Hadronsstead, a horse ranch that is kind of out in the boonies. The main character is a 24 year old woman named Lanen Kaelar who works there on her 'fathers' farm. And I use the term father loosely
I found this story to be somewhere between the usual type of dragon filled fantasy and a fantasy romance with dragons. There's the signs of a far reaching Quest to Save the World, but for the most part things seem to revolve around the budding and bizarre relationship between Lanan and Akhor. I say bizarre because she's a (fairly) regular woman, even if everyone around her seems to think that being tall and strong makes her freakish, (view spoiler)[seriously, this is a typical pseudo-medieval
I honestly really enjoyed this book. It's one of the few that has drawn me in, in a long time. Lanen is a woman who has spent her entire life living under someone else's thumb, and after his death, she decides to finally strike out on her own. She dreams of dragons, crazy as that may be, and something about it calls her. And so she goes and has an adventure, faced with insane odds and unreal dilemmas that strike at her along the way:1. Promised to a demon and nearly killed.2. Meets and befriends
For some reason it's hard to quantify what I liked about this book. It's definitely not a groundbreaking fantasy book, and it's full of 90s campiness that a fantasy snob would turn their nose at. Maybe that's precisely why I liked it. It's not often these days, that you get to romp around a fantsy setting without some very serious threat that we have to solve. Not that this book doesn't have a villain and his requisite henchmen, but it only gets dark at a select few moments, while the rest
For me, a good fantasy romance.I'm surprised by how eager I was to keep finding out what would happen next but this didn't reach perfection level because:1) it's clearly not the whole story so several things weren't solved at the end;2) a certain situation didn't follow the path I think would be better.I'm debating if I want to read the next installment.One one hand I want to see what happens, on the other there are two more books and to wait two whole books for closure....
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