Oppressed by the evil Spider King, Allyra's inhabitants are near despair---until strange tidings arrive from faraway Earth. Could two adopted children, just approaching their 13th birthdays, be the long-lost descendents of Allyra's Elf Lords? If so, will they have the courage to accept their destiny---and save their people? Ages 8 to 12. 384 pages, hardcover from Nelson.
Fantasy. Mystery. Action. Humor. Parents, teachers, and librarians will no longer have to push kids to read-The Berinfell Prophesies will engage intermediate readers and leave them clamoring for more.The Seven succeeding Elven Lords of Allyra were dead, lost in the Siege of Berinfell as babes. At least that’s what everyone thought until tremors from a distant world known as Earth, revealed strange signs that Elven blood lived among its peoples. With a glimmer of hope in their hearts, sentinels are sent to see if the signs are true. But theirs is not a lone errand. The ruling warlord of Allyra, the Spider King, has sent his own scouts to hunt down the Seven and finish the job they failed to complete many ages ago.
Now 13-year-olds on the brink of the Age of Reckoning when their Elven gifts will be manifest, discover the unthinkable truth that their adoptive families are not their only kin. With mysterious Sentinels revealing breathtaking secrets of the past, and dark strangers haunting their every move, will the young Elf Lords find the way back to the home of their birth? Worlds and races collide as the forces of good and evil battle. Will anyone escape the Curse of the Spider King?
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5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Tel Sorenson (Texas), February 08, 2010
Curse of the Spider King
My highest regards to Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper in creating this masterpiece. The ability to maintain a steady pace with seven main characters is astonishing. Five stars and more go to the Curse of the Spider King. I recommend it to anyone who loves a great story.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Anduril (Wi), February 08, 2010
Who wants to be an Elf?
Do you have scares on the top of your ears?
Did you get strange powers when you turned thirteen?
Are you morbidly afraid of spiders?
Then you could be an elf!
With the young Seven Elven lords stolen from their families as infants. They were taken to earth to be hidden till the ‘Age of Reckoning’.
Now the Time has come… The worlds are open for good and for evil to enter… Will the children return or be killed… who will find them first? The Spider King and his minions or the last remits of Elves…
Curse of the Spider King will make all arachnophobias tremble, all hero’s rise, all archers shoot better, in hopes that they are one of the 7.
Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper make this a nail biting adventure. They did an excellent job creating a world ‘Allyar’. That will have you wishing you could go there. They also did a wonderful job with the mixing of two time periods, thousands of years apart. The characters are extremely well rounded and will make you love them all even Mobius, the chief Drefid.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Book Lover (USA), February 04, 2010
This is a perfect book if you love Elves, and who doesn't.
After the Spider King minions have destroyed the elves kingdom, Berinfell. He had hoped that was the end of the elves but something happened that he had not planed...
With the Allyran Elves almost non-existent they have but one hope.
And that hope is on earth, hidden within billions of people.
This is a fun and exciting book for anyone who likes fantasy.
There are a few things that I don't like though.
1) The age of the main characters is 13, I like books were the hero's are slightly older.
2) The names are a little hard to keep strait and there are three names that I had a lot of trouble with. Their names are Tommy, Jimmy, and Johnny. So you can see to many "mmy" and "nny".
Other then that this is a great book and a lot of fun to read. Wayne Tomas Batson and Christopher Hopper did a great job.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Book Lover (USA), February 04, 2010
This is a perfect book if you love Elves, and who doesn't.
After the Spider King minions have destroyed the elves kingdom, Berinfell. He had hoped that was the end of the elves but something happened that he had not planed...
With the Allyran Elves almost non-existent they have but one hope.
And that hope is on earth, hidden within billions of people.
This is a fun and exciting book for anyone who likes fantasy.
There are a few things that I don't like though.
1) The age of the main characters is 13, I like books were the hero's are slightly older.
2) The names are a little hard to keep strait and there are three names that I had a lot of trouble with. Their names are Tommy, Jimmy, and Johnny. So you can see to many "mmy" and "nny".
Other then that this is a great book and a lot of fun to read. Wayne Tomas Batson and Christopher Hopper did a great job.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by bibledriller (Mt. Dora, Florida), January 22, 2010
This book is AMAZING! I read it all in one day, and i've read it 3 times since then! I love this book, WTB, and CH make the characters sound very real, it is amazing! I really enjoyed reading it and have informed all my friends about it! Thanks for writing an awesome book!
3.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Melissa Rose (WA), January 14, 2010
This book has believable protagonists, nightmarish villains, and a lot of action. A major strength of this book is a cast of characters I could identify with. Although I'm older than the main characters in this book, I can remember facing a lot of the same issues as most of the main characters while I was in middle school, which is quite an accomplishment considering there are seven very different ones.
Somewhat of a concern is the book's large cast, with many characters with similar occupations and not enough distinctions to keep them all straight all the time. As for the seven main kids, their characters were different enough to keep straight, although a couple of their names are similar enough to be confused.
There was one part of this book that lost my interest because there was a main character I couldn't personally identify with very well, but others who have read Curse of the Spider King assure me that this section is in fact interesting to people who are not me.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, intend to reread it, and would especially recommend it for readers who enjoy YA series as it is really only the beginning of a larger story.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Kelf (Florida), January 13, 2010
Action, adventure, swords, bows, arrows, and ancient Elven mystery, the perfect attributes of a great fantasy novel. This book, the Curse of the Spider King is everything you could dream of when looking for a fantasy novel. It begins with a mysterious meeting with Elven warriors in another realm, Allyra. Then it goes on to explain how the seven Elven Lords were lost to the enemy years ago and transported to Earth to escape a curse at a very young age. Now that their powers have developed, the enemy and the Elven warriors seek out the Lords to kill them, or to bring them back to Allyra. Who will win? Well, that I can’t tell you, you’ll have to read the book for yourself, but I think any person, young or old, will enjoy this thoroughly.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Millard (Moundhill, Missouri), January 06, 2010
CotSK:
The spider king has started his hunt for the seven elven lords, missing after hundreds of years. They were supposed to have been killed, but the drefids,(his elite assassins) feared the curse of the age of reckoning. Now the kids have reached age of 13, no longer do they fear the curse. It was botched once, the spider king is making sure it won't happen again. Read the book to find out what happens to these young lords.
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