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Deltora Shadowlands was a great sequel to Deltora Quest. It's easy for a young reader to lose his or herself in the adventures of Lief, Jasmine, and Barda. I'd recommend this series to any elementary level reader. The story is easy to follow and the characters are reintroduced so that readers unfamiliar with the cast can have some idea of who exactly they are dealing with. ( )

Reviewed by Joan Stradling for TeensReadToo.com

The Shadow Lord has been driven back across the mountains, but he's not finished with Deltora. He's taken prisoners from across the land and enslaved them. Worse, he plans to use them in a diabolical plot to take over Deltora. Lief and his friends must prevent Deltora from falling into the Shadow Lord's hands.

The only way to stop the Shadow Lord is the fabled Pirran Pipe. But the pieces of the pipe have been split among the three Pirran tribes and Lief and his friends will have to face unimaginable dangers in order to reunite the pieces. And if they can get the pieces, they'll then have to travel to the Shadowlands in hopes of defeating the evil amassed there.

This book contains all three exciting volumes of the DELTORA SHADOWLANDS series, and it was a treat to be able to read them all one right after the other without having to pick up another book.

I enjoyed DELTORA SHADOWLANDS even though I haven't read the DELTORA QUEST series. Rodda does a great job of introducing her characters for those readers who may not yet be familiar with them. Rodda is a master storyteller with an easy style and voice.

I fell in love with the characters and world of DELTLORA SHADOWLANDS so much that I'm now going to get myself the complete DELTORA QUEST series, which has also been bound into one volume. ( )