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Caiseal Mor

Autor(a) de Circle and the Cross

25 Works 993 Membros 12 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Séries

Obras por Caiseal Mor

Circle and the Cross (1995) 187 exemplares
The Water of Life (1997) 109 exemplares
Carolan's Concerto (1999) 64 exemplares
The Tilecutter's Penny (1998) 50 exemplares
The Well of the Goddess (2004) 30 exemplares
The harp at midnight (1999) 25 exemplares
Mystery, Magic, Voodoo & the Holy Grail (8-in-1) (2000) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Australia

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Críticas

It is a good book about a curious boy who stops at nothing to discover the secrets of the MacMurton House, and he finds himself delving deeper into the faerie world. There's a mix of mystery and folklore that kept me reading. I recommend this book because it's easy to read and the references to Celtic mythology are very fascinating. The story development is a tad slow in the beginning but the pace picks up pretty quickly and is well worth the read.
 
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TLHelen | Nov 6, 2012 |
I bought this book hoping for your typical fantasy story, and was largely disappointed. Never mind that the back of the book for some reason focuses on the villain of the story, what really ruins this book is the author's choice to write it as if you're listening to a storyteller. Even this might have been bearable if the chosen storyteller weren't a person who insults the reader, wanders off topic in the middle of half the sections, and somehow knew far more than a person who is later introduced as a character in the story, should know. It pulled your right out of the story time and again. Had I been talking to this person in real life, I'd have walked away. As it is, I only finished the book because I wanted some recompense for having spent money on it.

Plotwise, the story moved along at a snail's pace due to all the information dumps from the storyteller, most of which were pretty boring. The book is basically a few groups of people all heading towards the same place, and you expect something to happen when they get there. A few small things do, but there was no real climax to the story before the narrator tells you to bugger off (and I guess, buy the next book). The villain was very evil, and the monk guy was very nice. Meanwhile, the villainess was extremely boring, and I'm confused as to why no one noticed that beheading killed immortals (when this kills almost every single supernatural being in existence). I did like the more otherworldly than usual portrayal of immortals, and that the book operated on a much longer span of history because of it.

I also really hated the introduction of 'frighteners and... whatever they were called, because once those were introduced the author lazily started saying things like, "His frightener was awake." to tell us someone was scared or worried. That moved the novel from 'just passable' into the 'unbearable' category.
… (mais)
 
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arianaderalte | Apr 30, 2009 |
Review by Lachlan Huddy:

You have to hand it to Caiseal Mór: give him lemons and he’ll make lemonade. Mór, who as a child was diagnosed on the Autistic scale, is an accomplished musician, composer, teacher, drum-maker, and bestselling author, so you couldn’t call him a victim of his condition. All these passions run through Lady of the Lamp like interwoven threads: the otherworldly power of music, the importance of good teachers, the beauty of accepting, even celebrating, people’s quirks and foibles, and the spell of the written word. Set in the Forest of Keak, and occasionally in a version of the Celtic Otherworld dubbed the Far Country, Lady of the Lamp traces the adventures of Ronan Harcourt, an earl’s son (who seems rather Autistic himself) obsessed with finding the Holy Grail. Traditional Christian notions of good and evil are here turned on their head; the Roman Church’s God is an evil tyrant intent on mankind’s enslavement to the flesh, his rival Shemhazai not a cretinous Devil but an heroic freedom fighter imprisoned in the distant Wasteland. If some of Mór’s incidents and his characters’ reactions to them don’t quite convince, the sheer weight of his invention silences any quibbles.… (mais)
 
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AurealisMagazine | Apr 23, 2009 |
The Raven's tale is not a pretty one.
After years of feuding and bloodshed, Innisfail is divided by war once more. The Watchers, an ancient and malevolent pair of troublemakers, are impatient to be released from their bonds of immortality. They have promised to visit their bloody vengeance on Innisfail for many generations to come should Eremon of the North gain the victory over his brother Eber of the South.
But Eber has no hope of matching his brother in numbers or arms. And when a poet-king and his red-capped warriors arrive from across the sea, it seems Eber has yet another enemy preparing to move against him. Amidst this chaos and confusion, the Druids Dalan and Sorcha seek to track down the mystical Draoi song - possibly Innisfail's only hope of undoing the Watchers' evil influence, and a way to bring peace to the land at last.
But the Raven is a carrion creature and his tale is one of blood and death. Listen carefully, for only the immortals can afford to disregard history.
This was a good ending to this series. I particularly enjoyed the twist in the tail about the identity of the Raven. I ended up quite enjoying the stories – even though many of the characters were not sympathetic or fully formed.
… (mais)
 
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Jawin | Jun 20, 2008 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
25
Membros
993
Popularidade
#25,942
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
12
ISBN
49
Línguas
1
Marcado como favorito
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