Lethelorel The Lost Elf Queen's Castle Paperback – 3 Feb. 2013

Brilliant story,reads just like you are there,highly recommend.

William Webb's book is of a genre I had not read, but I followed his band of teenage fantasy-game players as they were magically transported from his suburban semi to a faraway and primitive landscape of crumbling castles and muddy villages set in mountains and forests. There is no pretence of Literary or Philosophical themes, they talk like real young people of our day meeting the rough and tumble of strife amongst and between power brokers and races, only one of which is human, and there is little in the way of comfort.But they become enmeshed in the strivings of their new friends to restore the values of civilised life against evil, and find those friends - and some fearful enemies - in every walk of life and every ethnic group, and they keep the faith, and triumph in a final battle, a Waterloo, only no-one seems to have invented gunpowder, which is a mercy.This book takes us back to the Sixties heyday of dungeons and dragons, and there are plenty of both in an adventure that is always pressing forward vigorously and unsentimentally, though with powerful comradeship. It echoes the illustrations of Tolkien's works, but it avoids the sonorous biblical style that was maybe once intended for Oxford common-rooms. There is a lot of this adventure and I read it all. There are some spelling mistakes and misplaced (in my view) hyphens, and the paperback cover tends to curl up, but one could think of worse things to find.

Looking forward to reading this. I've known Bill Webb for 6 years now and can tell you he is a 5 star Gent, so gets 5 stars!