Moon Called

By Andre Norton

Book Overview

In order to preserve the Holy Force, Thora, the Chosen one, and warrior Makil, the Man of Pure Light, descend into an underground world to battle the evil force of the Dark Lord. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0523485859
• ISBN13: 9780523485850
• Release Date: July 1983
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best Book I Read as a Kid

This book, while the storyline escapes me due to its unimportance, was one of the greatest life changes in my life. I identified with the main characters religion so deeply and felt the lack of training she had. Later I realized it was because I was a Witch at age 11, looking for a teacher. The descriptions caught me so vividly. Her aloneness, her only friend being her dog, registered with me at an awkward age where I felt nothing in common with my peers, just alive racing with my own dog. I wanted to be a survivor like her, and became one, an adventurer like her, and became one, and a Priestess, which I became with the fragments still around, as she had become. The story meant nothing to me, but the first few chapters captured my young mind and created a form, a heroine, I could hope to become.

the book that started it all (for me)

i picked this book up at random when i was about seven years old, at a library book sale, for 25 cents. up till that point i had not been much of a reader; i'd read some laura ingalls wilder (little house on the prairie and so forth) and roald dahl, but i was nothing like an avid reader. then i picked up this book, and although many of the criticisms are valid (this book reads like one that perhaps ms. norton wasn't quite finished with but she needed something to give to her editor), it will always have a very fond place in my heart, because it opened up the world of science fiction and fantasy to me.