Shadow Star

November 15, 1999
To prevent the great dragons from falling into the hands of the Deceiver, Elora Danan--warrior, mage, and savior of the Twelve Kingdoms--committed a desperate act, slaying the great creatures over the objections of her trusted companions. Spellbound to her friends in order to preserve the two remaining dragon eggs and guarantee their future survival, Elora discovers that she has opened herself to an unexpected evil and placed herself in danger of becoming that which she most fears. The conclusion to Claremont and Lucas's fantasy epic, based on the events first popularized in Lucas's film Willow, serves up a wealth of sword and sorcery as well as a host of memorable, larger-than-life characters. Along with its predecessors (Shadow Moon, Shadow Dawn), this grand-scale saga belongs in most fantasy collections.

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November 15, 1999
The third, apparently concluding volume of the Chronicles of the Shadow Wars begins after Elora Danan has adopted dire scorched-earth tactics by killing the dragons that embodied the soul of Creation to keep them from being exploited by the Deceiver to rule the Realms. Now she has to guard the last two dragon eggs (losing either means disaster), lead her companions Thorn Drumheller and Khory Banefin (demon and all), assemble other allies into an effective coalition, and come to terms with the fact that the Deceiver may be her own evil twin. The power of the good-and-evil-twins concept has been proven in hundreds of tales, including a certain film project of coauthor Lucas'. Much of Shadow Wars' success, however, depends on seasoned sf, fantasy, and comic book writer Claremont's sure hand at turning archetypes into characters and realizing worlds of compelling power. ((Reviewed November 15, 1999))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1999, American Library Association.)