Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780593023754
Format: Import
ISBN number: 0593023757
Label: Bantam Press
Manufacturer: Bantam Press
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: 1992
Publishing house: Bantam Press
Sale Popularity Level: 3683112
Studio: Bantam Press
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I am generally a romance/mystery reader and I'm not sure how I stumbled onto Ann Mccaffrey's books. This book is a part of my favorite of her series the very first of which is The Rowan. I would suggest you purchase The Rowan very first and then read the entire series. My favorite stand alone book of hers is Restoree which was originally written in 1977 I believe but has been reissued. Then the Dragonflight series is wonderful and her son is continuing that series and is doing a good job. He is improving each book he writes. There is also a reissue of 3 books which is named Three Women. Two of those books are ones I have read over and over again and still enjoy. Ring of Fear and the Mark of Merlin. They are both somewhat dated, like some of the early Ludlum books but are wonderful stories. Ann has also written some great teen books. She has written an unbelievable amount of really good books.
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Waste of time. Take The Rowan, and how ordinary that was, with all the young reader girlish elements, and others silliness, and make it worse.
Have mother and father from that spit out a kid who exacerbates the problems found in that other novel.
Definitely don't waste your time with this one unless some sort of hardcore McCaffrey nut.
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This was the very first Anne McCaffrey book I ever picked up, and I loved it! Ten years after I'd originally read it, I sought it out and re-read it, and I enjoyed it just as much as I had the very first time. The characters are completely believable, and one can sympathize with them quite easily. I would recommend starting with The Rowan (the very first book in the series), but Damia is also a good stand-alone novel.
McCaffrey's mastery of characters is evident, and she weaves a rich environment for them. This is one of those books I didn't want to be ejected from on the last page, I just wanted to stay immersed in the fantasy and see how the characters developped further. Definitely high on my list of fantasy favorites.
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Yet another McCaffrey book where I just fall in love with the characters and identify with their desires and dreams, in spite of the fantasy/sci fi elements. Beautifully written scenes between characters, building tension between them over the years, with tear-wrenching scenes and resolutions, both happy and sad. And as always, McCaffrey weaves her wonderful sense of humour and her sensuality throughout the story and characters.
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The Lyon family of "methody" Capella are Talented folk. This means that they possess telepathic and telekinetic abilities in varying degrees and combinations, although none has the power of a "Prime." Young Afra chafes under the emotional repression and strict propriety of his home-world, and delights in his beloved older sister Goswina's brief apprenticeship to the Rowan - the most powerful Prime Talent known to FT&T.
As a young man, Afra has his own chance to work with the Rowan. He and that lonely woman strike up a rare and wonderful friendship, destined to endure throughout their lifetimes. But romance isn't part of their synergy, and both yearn to find it with other partners. Which the Rowan does, eventually, with an equally powerful but untrained telepath from Deneb: Jeff Raven. Whom she marries, and partners with when FT&T's "Talents" are the only viable defense against an alien invasion.
The Rowan and Jeff Raven produce a family of Talented children, including a daughter named Damia. From childhood, this third in their brood proves herself the most Talented human yet born. She's also temperamental, strong-willed, and unpredictable; and the most important person in her life, from its earliest hours, proves to be her mother's friend and colleague Afra.
Although this book includes some thrilling passages of interstellar conflict carried out by telepathic and telekinetic means, the romance of Damia Gwyn-Raven and Afra Lyon forms its heart and occupies most of its pages. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this romance. The author handles Afra's transition from parental figure to suitor in Damia's life well enough, and there is certainly nothing wrong with a grown woman (even a rather young one) choosing to marry an older man. Nevertheless I came away with residual discomfort, because even McCaffrey couldn't quite convince me that this close friend of Damia's mother (in an emotional sense, her uncle) had any business sharing her bed.
I loved the "coonies" and the Barque Cats, though! And since I've read the rest of the Talent series already, I know that Damia and Afra's marriage is destined to mature into a genuine and healthy partnership. So I would advise other readers to be forewarned that "Damia" may disturb them a little, but I recommend it just the same.
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