Don't even know how I finished this...

[cedar_grove]

//The elven lords are powerful and cruel, and once we know they exist, they will give us no peace.// Alara to Father Dragon. The Elvenbane by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey.

I've often wondered how two people sit down together and write a book. Does one take one chapter and the other another, or do they actually sit together in a room and beat each other senseless with the keyboard until they finally agree on the words to write...? Seriously though, given the individual tallent of both authors this should have been a much better book than it was. It was very disappointing. Took over 400 pages to get anything more than background and description dealt with, then presented us with a battle that was frankly a piss-poor excuse for a climax with a huge element of deus-ex-machina, or at least that's the way it seemed to my mind. I'm sure there are folks out there who swear that it's a good read. I'm not one of them.