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Childe Morgan (The Childe Morgan Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Katherine Kurtz (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
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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.
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  6. Publication date
    January 29, 2008
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    18 years and up
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In bestseller Kurtz's morbid second tale of her new Deryni trilogy—following 2003's In the King's Service and set before the King Kelson novels—King Donal Haldane is mourning the loss of his bastard son, Krispin, a boy he thought would be companion and protector to Crown Prince Brion, and hoping that Alyce and Kenneth de Morgan's toddler son, Alaric, heir to Alyce's Deryni magic, can be groomed to take Krispin's place. Bishop Oliver de Nore's brother, Septimus, was put to death by the king after Alyce used her powers to reveal that he orchestrated Krispin's killing; now Oliver is doubly motivated to accelerate the church's campaign to exterminate the Deryni, who are feared by many humans in the land of Gwynedd. Kurtz renders even the most plot-twisting demises more dreary than dramatic, which makes for terrific medieval realism but uninteresting narrative. (Dec.)
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Alyce de Corwyn, Deryni heiress to two lands, is happy with her human husband and precocious son. Three-year-old Alaric was pledged from birth to serve the royal heirs of Gwynedd, however, and Deryni powers are feared and hated by too many in Gwynedd. The Deryni are divided, too, between loyalty to their kind and loyalty to their lands and kings. Alyce expects to have sufficient time before Alaric must fulfill the pledge, and then unexpected events throw responsibility on Gwynedd's young king; Torenth, the heir of Gwynedd's enemy; and Alaric, who is now four. Kurtz's fans will celebrate this continuation of In the King's Service (2003). Frieda Murray
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0010JWVI4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace (January 29, 2008)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 697 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 337 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0441015549
  • Customer Reviews:
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Diane N.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great find!
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2021
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Although I have been reading the Deryni stories for decades, I had missed the later volumes and was delighted to discover this book and The King's Deryni. Alaric is a favorite character and I very much enjoyed these 2 volumes about his childhood. There are events told here that were only alluded to by characters in novels that take place later and many new characters and events as well. Since the first Deryni book (in publication order) begins with King Brion's death and Alaric already an adult it was fascinating to read what had happened in their lives growing up. If you are a fan of the other books, I think you will enjoy these as well!
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James D. Ivers
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not very exciting
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2016
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If you have enjoyed the Deryni books before this trilogy you may find the backfill story of what happened before Kelson became king interesting. It is as well written as you would expect. However, there really isn't a lot of interesting action in the entire trilogy. How could there be when we already know most of the fates of the important characters? This isn't bad, or even boring, so much as it isn't particularly exciting. I did enjoy watching Kurtz manipulate things so as to get all the characters into position for the point at which she originally began the story.
She does do a good job of providing a gloss on life in the 12th century or so, not leaving out the bad parts while not overly concentrating on them either. That era was not a comfortable time. Here descriptions, brief though they are, of the difficulties of living in the winter were very good.

The entire trilogy [now that I have read it] is really more the middle book of a big trilogy like Lord of the Rings. Not much seems to happen, byt that's because things are being set up for the rest of the story. If you can accept that, you'll almost certainly like this trilogy.
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Mariellen Chapdelaine
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like the series
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2017
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If you like the series, you'll like this book. Somehow we grow to love the lead character and that is a not-so-subtle testament to the character clues and detailed writing that Katherine Kurtz is known for. In my opinion, the Deryni histories should be read as a whole lest we miss some key part of the story, which, after all is the reason we read them.
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L. Dalzell
5.0 out of 5 stars Middle of a Trilogy, very good
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2014
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I like this story a lot. I actually got it on kindle because I could not find my hardback from years ago. I bought The King's Deryni (Childe Morgan 3) and needed to re-read Childe Morgan book 1 and 2 to get reminded of the story. This is the middle book and you really need to read all three in order to get the full impact. DO read the Deryni series...all of them.
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Philip van Lidth
4.0 out of 5 stars Some interesting facets to the Deryni world and story
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2007
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While this book doesn't have quite the same amount of adventure action as most of her other books, it develops the themes that will dominate Alaric Morgan's life quite nicely, and there is enough happening there to keep things interesting. I would have liked a little bit more of Alaric Morgan's point of view in all of this, considering that this is supposed to be his story (and the title is Childe Morgan, after all), but I am also glad to know more about his parents and how they served, not to mention some interesting insights into characters we will either meet later or hear about in the books about Kelson.
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Christa
3.0 out of 5 stars More backstory than book.
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2006
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I usually enjoy K. Kurtz's Deryni novels, but this one dragged. Very little focus was actually on toddler Alaric Morgan, but the events around him. The few times he does appear, he's precocious. His parents are saintly, the king has become a tragic figure, the Camberian Council is opaque and mysterious... The book fills in a lot of background for those obsessively keeping track of who married/murdered/hated/loved whom and when, but it doesn't have any characters who really make a connection to the reader. Hopefully the next one will be more interesting.
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Eric
5.0 out of 5 stars and great adventure can all be found in this book
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2016
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Secret Societies, Arcane Magic, Rites Apocrypha, Court Intrigue, Heroic Acts of Loyal Bravery, Sacrifice, Mourning, Bravery, Cowardice, Betrayal, Jealousy, Hopes, Dreams, Visions, Romance, Courtly Tradition, Telepathy, Suspense, War, Blade work, Fencing, Duels, Knighting, Assassins, Justice of the King, and great adventure can all be found in this book. Dare to go on a grand adventure, and read this book.
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A. M. Gysler
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazon's Archives
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2012
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I read the last book first, didn't know it was a series, now needed to go back and delve into Amazon's Archives to put some of the history together. After reading 3 earlier books, I have a clearer picture of the people, times, locations and situations, but there are still some mysteries, so like an archeologist, I must go back into the field and dig some more. Fascinating.
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Sverre Svendsen
4.0 out of 5 stars Bland beginning, stirring conclusion
Reviewed in Canada on December 27, 2014
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Katherine Kurtz may not be the most prolific fantasy writer. That distinction may belong to S M Stirling although his works straddle a number of genres. But I think the Deryni books by Kurtz may hold the record for the most fantasy books, at sixteen (as well as three additional ancillary works), that follow a timeline of more than two hundred years (903 to 1128) chronicling the adventures and travails of succeeding Gwynedd monarchs, the Deryni magic-empowered race, adversarial bishops and sinister clergy, and the neighboring Torenthi usurpers and pretenders to the throne.

The first Deryni book was ‘Deryni Rising,’ published in 1970 and the most recent, and likely the last, ‘The King’s Deryni,’ in 2014; that totals forty-four years it has taken to build a medieval fantasy saga, surely a monumental achievement by any measure. Some books are out of print. Perhaps one day the complete saga could be republished in chronological order.

If read chronologically, ‘Childe Morgan’ is the eight book in the Deryni series of sixteen, the second volume of the Childe Morgan trilogy. In terms of publishing sequence it is the penultimate volume and one of the shortest. Continuing from the first book of the trilogy, ‘In the King’s Service,’ its central character is Kenneth Kai Morgan, the most trusted aide to King Donal Haldane. His much younger wife Alyce de Corwyn Morgan has birthed a son, Alaric Morgan, who is the ‘childe’ of this trilogy and the third book will tell of his adult experiences in support of the king and defense of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.

This book struck me as a being short of adversarial plots and dramatic encounters except towards its conclusion. Its first half consists mostly of placid dialog and descriptions of events that are inconsequential to the plot. As is Kurtz’s style we are inundated with introductions and references to new characters and their genealogies. These come in lumps and clumps at the beginning of many of her books and challenge readers’ recollective abilities. The ‘Index of Characters’ in the appendix is of some help but lack detail in order not to reveal pending events. However, by its middle this novel gains more substance and I found the book’s ending had made it worth getting through its bland first half. The ending sets the stage very well for the next book ‘The King’s Deryni’ which should be much more substantial at over five hundred pages in length.
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Merlin-UK
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2016
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Good Yarn as ever from Ms Kurtz, could do with a bit more magic!
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Theresa Hardy
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2015
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Very good books, please republish all this authors books
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tekno.mage
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2013
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I think this is one of the latest published books in Katherine Kurtz's Deryni fantasy series, but I was disappointed. Okay it does tie up some loose ends of the history, but it was nothing like as gripping a read as her other books.
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