The Skyla series was noted as "less ambitious" and darker yet slow-paced, patchy, and tentative. Her works continue to be popular since their publication, although critics consider her later works inferior compared to her original Alfar series. Boyer's early books are dominated by the theme of the heroic quest.
Boyer follows the Norse versions of these elements closely without much deviation. Her stories are characterized by elements like light and dark elves, dwarves, trolls, sorcerers, ley lines, burial mounds, and wizards. While Norse myths influenced fantasy, including authors like Tolkien and Lewis, Boyer's works followed them more closely than other writers.
Her work is deeply influenced by Norse mythology, and set in a fantasy world with a similar climate and geography as the Scandinavia of Norse myths. īoyer is considered an early contributor to the mass-market fantasy genre and a contemporary of Niel Hancock.
She lives on a farm near Atlanta and no longer writes. Career īoyer studied English literature and Scandinavian mythology at Brigham Young University. Elizabeth Hall Boyer (born 1952) is an American fantasy author who produced books in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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