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Childe Morgan (Deryni)
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Author: Katherine Kurtz
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Childe Morgan (Deryni) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780441015542
ISBN: 0441015549
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780441015542
ISBN: 0441015549
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace
Editorial Review of Childe Morgan (Deryni)
New York Times bestselling author of In the King's Service
Alaric Morgan has been pledged to the king's service. His Deryni blood makes him ideal to safeguard the Haldane kings and ensure that Prince Brion shall have the protection of his hereditary magic.
Alaric Morgan has been pledged to the king's service. His Deryni blood makes him ideal to safeguard the Haldane kings and ensure that Prince Brion shall have the protection of his hereditary magic.
Customer Reviews of Childe Morgan (Deryni)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Childe Morgan
Review: I can't read these anymore. Katherine Kurtz has way too many deaths of children in her books. I hope she's going somewhere with all this, because every book seems to give the Deryni less hope, what's the freakin' point?
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Another disapppointing killing spree
Review: I had high hopes for this book, but was terribly disappointed. The plot (what little there is of it) is BORING and gets bogged down in day to day details. The ritual scenes (which are one of this author's strongest points) are short and come way late in the book, and as has become typical of Katherine's writing, the last third of the book is a slaughter with nearly EVERYBODY dying. It's almost as though she gets bored with her characters and "off with their heads". This has become a typical pattern with her writing and it's getting VERY old. I'd love to see a return to the early style of Deryni novels where there are occasional deaths, which are necessary to the story, wonderful ritual/magic scenes, complex characters and intricate plots. Lately, she hasn't been delivering on the promise of her earlier works. Very disappointing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fleshed out version
Review: I came late to seeing this book, as a paperback in fact. The blurb pages say "Devoted fans of the Deryni will enjoy seeing this fleshed-out version of the original trilogy's back story". Despite the fact that I enjoyed the original novels, and Ms. Kurtz definitely *can* write a good story, nothing much really happens: the non-talented hate the supermen, Alaric Morgan's sisters go to college, King Donal has not long to live and 4-yr old Alaric Morgan's mother dies.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Childe Morgan
Review: A little too much rewriting to make it fit into the older books, and of course, what can one say about Alaric Morgan as a child? So, most of it is just filling in the gaps as we get close to the beginning of the Deryni saga. It is interesting, but might be difficult for one who has not read any of the other books, and there are a LOT of them. I would be more interested in furthering the King Kelson years (when Alaric is grown and married as is Kelson).
Linda Sheean
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: definitely a yes
Review: Many pan this novel as dreary and boring- which it is not... Yet it accomplished what Kurtz was Asked by fans to do.....Fill in some of the Blanks....taken as such I enjoyed it very much......My only wish is that authors would write and Publish IN SEQUENCE...too many Including K Kurtz end up back tracking - and This is what many find confusing....These last 2 books (In the King's Service+ Childe Morgan) seem to be the result of TOO Much Input from fans....Something needed to be Avoided in the future!
Review Summary: Childe Morgan
Review: I can't read these anymore. Katherine Kurtz has way too many deaths of children in her books. I hope she's going somewhere with all this, because every book seems to give the Deryni less hope, what's the freakin' point?
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Another disapppointing killing spree
Review: I had high hopes for this book, but was terribly disappointed. The plot (what little there is of it) is BORING and gets bogged down in day to day details. The ritual scenes (which are one of this author's strongest points) are short and come way late in the book, and as has become typical of Katherine's writing, the last third of the book is a slaughter with nearly EVERYBODY dying. It's almost as though she gets bored with her characters and "off with their heads". This has become a typical pattern with her writing and it's getting VERY old. I'd love to see a return to the early style of Deryni novels where there are occasional deaths, which are necessary to the story, wonderful ritual/magic scenes, complex characters and intricate plots. Lately, she hasn't been delivering on the promise of her earlier works. Very disappointing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fleshed out version
Review: I came late to seeing this book, as a paperback in fact. The blurb pages say "Devoted fans of the Deryni will enjoy seeing this fleshed-out version of the original trilogy's back story". Despite the fact that I enjoyed the original novels, and Ms. Kurtz definitely *can* write a good story, nothing much really happens: the non-talented hate the supermen, Alaric Morgan's sisters go to college, King Donal has not long to live and 4-yr old Alaric Morgan's mother dies.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Childe Morgan
Review: A little too much rewriting to make it fit into the older books, and of course, what can one say about Alaric Morgan as a child? So, most of it is just filling in the gaps as we get close to the beginning of the Deryni saga. It is interesting, but might be difficult for one who has not read any of the other books, and there are a LOT of them. I would be more interested in furthering the King Kelson years (when Alaric is grown and married as is Kelson).
Linda Sheean
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: definitely a yes
Review: Many pan this novel as dreary and boring- which it is not... Yet it accomplished what Kurtz was Asked by fans to do.....Fill in some of the Blanks....taken as such I enjoyed it very much......My only wish is that authors would write and Publish IN SEQUENCE...too many Including K Kurtz end up back tracking - and This is what many find confusing....These last 2 books (In the King's Service+ Childe Morgan) seem to be the result of TOO Much Input from fans....Something needed to be Avoided in the future!