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Lyon's Pride (Rowan/Damia) (Pegasus/The Tower and the Hive #8)
The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance - until the birth of her daughter, Damia. Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge.Now the combined power of all these generations, especially the unique...more
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November 21st 2008
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Lyon's Pride: "Lyon's Pride" is an excellent continuation to "Damia's Children". These are not stand-alone books. One will need to read "Damia's Children" in order to get the story line straight.
Lyon's Pride is of course the children of Afra Lyon (with the help of Damia one would assume). As the coalition of the Mrdini and the humans become aware of the extent of the expansion of the Hivers, they also become aware of oddities. Rojer, Tian, Zara and Laria are still o
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Things you find while cleaning out your closet. While I truly love the Talent series, the Tower books (taking place around 300 years after the end of the Talent series) are a dicier bet. "The Rowan" I'm still generally good with, but the quality slides after that, just recycling without end. "Lyon's Pride" is the fourth book in the series, and... yeagh.
Story-wise, this one's so-so. It's fractured into a few different storylines, but really the most effort is put i...more
Story-wise, this one's so-so. It's fractured into a few different storylines, but really the most effort is put i...more
I shouldn't have tried to jump into the series in the middle, I know. That's a classic gaffe that I could have avoided, and as such, my opinion is skewed. I don't think, however, that's the problem with this book. There's just nothing here. This is the second McCaffrey book I've read, and the other one was long, long ago. However, I ended it with the same lack of interest that I did the other book. I got done with it, moved on, and will probably never think about the book again, except whe...more
For some reason, the last couple of books in this series were difficult to follow and felt unfinished. I didn't really get much out of this one.
It was a lot of fun reading this series, but I felt as the series continued, it got bogged down with to many technical issues. I found myself skimming the explanations, waiting for the plot to continue. And then there were too many off shoots to the story. Yes, I was interested in each of the characters, but I began feeling like I was checking their stories off on a list... I enjoyed the earlier books more.
I'm pretty sure I finished this book only because I started it AND I'd read the previous three AND I think it's the last book in the series. It's just all over the place... Maybe it's too many characters, maybe it's the long lulls that slam into one page of action and then drop off into another long lull. I didn't WANT to finish it or know what happens. It was a good skeleton, but someone forgot to flesh it out with interestingness.
Science fiction is not usually my chosen genre to read, although I do enjoy fantasy. I have heard of Anne McCaffrey as an author, but I have never once picked up her books...until now. Lyon's Pride was a slow start for me since it introduced many beings and creatures and space ship terms that are not usually part of my vocabulary. However, the writing did engage me, and I found that the story was interesting and intriguing enough that I kept reading once I got started. This is a story of hope....more
The basic storyline that began in The Rowan is well underway. The characters are also more developed. The story continues to have a few plot holes that you have to look past but I'm still fond of both the characters and the story and can look past the writing style.
This one keeps going with Damia's children (who are also Afra Lyon's children, of course - hence the title) and does some nice work with them. I read this very quickly after the previous one, and enjoyed it very much.
She was starting to suffer from Arthur C. Clark's syndrome -- too many characters in similar settings and mistaking who was on what ship headed where...
SciFi/Fantasy. This one follows Damia's Children. If you've enjoyed the series so far you'll enjoy this one.
The continuing saga of the Gwynn-Raven-Lyon family. This book is just as good as the other ones. I just advise you to not start in the middle of this series. It'll go straight over your head.
The story continues with an emphasis on Damia's children and the Mirdini aliens.
this is a good book to read even though i haven't read the first four books.
I enjoyed this continuation to the series. It carries on the stories of Damias children. At times it feels like there are too many characters that you need to keep track of but they are all interesting. For me the consequence of this was that I do not feel as connected to the 4 main characters as I did to Damia and Afra.
Parts of the story are more mature that earlier in the series as the Alliance are now fighting a war. You really need to read the previous books to fully understand e...more
Parts of the story are more mature that earlier in the series as the Alliance are now fighting a war. You really need to read the previous books to fully understand e...more
I need to find this one again, but I will.
McCaffrey should have stopped while she was ahead. This story was like the the never-ending space odessy, but even less interesting than it sounds. No love interest (which is always a mark in her pages), no character development. If she happened to stop on an interesting side story or character she quickly swapped to another story and never revisited the seed of hope she'd planted. I was so bored with about 30 pages left but felt it was worth skimming to see if anything would materialize.... The...more
One of my favorites of The Rowan Saga
kinda odd.
love this series.
Awesome
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Telepathy is the Lyon family birthright. And now all of the them must combine their individual powers to combat the Hivers--a relentless race that has slaughtered entire populations in its search for a new home.
Yet another five star. Fun reading. Fast. This is still part of the Pegasus and Rowan series.
Yet another five star. Fun reading. Fast. This is still part of the Pegasus and Rowan series.
Damia's children are learning where the younger children should be in the world and how their connection with the new alien race can save them from the concuring hive. the children of Damia find their own path their own loves and their missions in life
Honestly I don't remember a ton about this book, but I do remember that all the action and stories that every person in Damia's Children was going through was resolved here.
I remember I really liked the turnouts. I should re-read this one.
I remember I really liked the turnouts. I should re-read this one.
Another series that I feel drags on a bit too long, but I just love McCaffrey's deft hand with psionic abilities. It's amazing to think that this whole world came out of a few short stories.
great book i love the whole series and i think alot of other people that like science fiction books with a romantic twist may like this series as much as i did.
How come I never find out about the reminder of a series until way after the fact? I feel like this was something that went over my head as a kid.
McCaffrey's stories are always lovely reads where you can lose yourself in the world and the characters lives and this is no exception.
My least favorite of the set. I started it but couldn't get interested enough to finish.
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Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 1:30 p.m., in the hour of the Sheep, year of the Fire Tiger, sun sign Aries with Taurus rising and Leo mid-heaven (which seems to suggest an early interest in the stars).
Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent....more
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