The Warding of Witch World

by Andre Norton

Book Overview

When an uncontrollable burst of magic opens a gateway to Witch World, the witches of Estcarp and the scholars of Lormt struggle to seal the gateways to prevent the entrance of dark invaders.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044651991X
• ISBN13: 9780446519915
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Only because...

I think the editorial process must have been skipped in this book. Although it's great to have all of my favorite characters back in one book a *lot* of the names are spelled wrong. I saw someone else said that Aylinn and Kethan are cousins. I don't remember that from The Jargoon Pard at all so I guess people do forget some things.

The Best of the Best

Every character from all of the Witch World books come together to defeat a final evil and to close the gates to all other worlds. Told in four seperate tales that are hard to stop reading and introduce some new memorable characters. This book is supposedly the last to Norton's great 30 year running series and is the most classic of her classic tales. Will be loved by all of Norton's fans, but I do not recommend reading this book if you have not read at least one of the other Witch World books.

Superb! traditionmal Andre Norton quqlity

To critique an Andre Norton book, one must critique Ms. Norton. She is a most remarkable and compassionate woman, the very finast of story tellers ( every sentence and page are action-filled with no "apologetic"explanmatory paragraphs that insult the reader's intelligence and delay the plot; every page continues the plot with no meandering and, Ms. Norton knows how to end a story. It crescendos to the end; it does not dribble. She, and the 100+ books she has solo-authored aremagnificent.Ward of the Witch World continues this tradition. Most all the characters and locations from other epics are brought together, and there are at least three separate tales combined; a feast for the Witch-World lover. The characters are well vexposed, internally and externally. Thwew is perhaps more "spirituality" accorded to them but it does not slow the plot pace. Each sentence is so packed with the explanmatory verbs, adjectives and gerunds. New is the flavor of romanmce between several of her characters; not awkwardly as some of her co-authors have attempted, but "neatly". Also, there are still threads left untied, hopefully allowing for further Witch Word stories.

This book brought closure to all of the witch world stories

The reason I adored this book is that Mrs. Norton answered all of my questions from every short story, novella, and novel that I have read of the witch world. The characters are already friends of mine from the short stories I have read. When I read SAND SISTER I wondered if I would ever know what happened to them. Well here they are again! It is wonderful to get closure on all of my friends. I wondered what happened to Hillarion and Kathrea it is great to know they are still alive and the timeline is finally evident to us. The sulcar and the falconers are some of my favorite characters and they are here!!!! Good luck, Good reading, and God bless!!Elaine McTyer

A highly satisfying, triumphant, yet bittersweet conclusion

The Warding of the Witch World is a highly satisfying, yet also bittersweet conclusion to a series that in my opinion, along with Tolkein, defines the term "High Fantasy". A new generation ably defends Witch World against a massive onslaught of evil as all Gates are thrown open by a blast of wild magic. All our old friends are gathered here, Simon, Jaelithe, Kaththea, Kyllan, Joison, Kerovan, Gillian, Herrel, Koris and more but it is their children who face the test. As usual, they must overcome their own personal demons but in the end, they defeat the forces of evil, find their place in the world and even find love. (Andre Norton does like happy endings.) I HATE the idea that this is the last Witch World novel but I know sooner or later, there was going to be an end and so I am glad that Andre Norton concluded the series in such a grand manner