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Summary: The Author Speaks
Review: I was raised in a world almost as traditional as that of the legends, 1950s-style, in an old-fashioned Middle American family. A little girl was supposed to look sweet and not talk back, so, like many females before me, I became an expert at hiding my disobedience. As far back as I can remember, I knew that I was sneaky and bad; perhaps I was born to write about the misfit, the outcast, the oddling. I was raised in a world of surface smiles and secret truth. Intensely curious about everything my parents hid from me, I spent my childhood unraveling mysteries -- adult relationships, the Tooth Fairy, rudiments of sex, Santa Claus, neighborhood infidelities, the Easter Bunny. I questioned platitudes, I debunked white lies, I became fascinated with exposing what was hidden, finding out, turning over the stone in search of the grubs underneath. To this day, I go fishing in muddy water. I remain obsessed by the substance beneath the surface. It's no wonder, then, that I chose to write about Mordred and, later, about Morgan le Fay. I had to know: What truth lay beneath the "wicked woman" surface? Fate to the contrary, no one is born evil. Morgan was not born a sorceress any more than Mordred was was born a murderer. How did Morgan of Cornwall become Morgan le Fay?
Having been a sneaky, secretly disobedient little girl once, I thought I knew how it might have been for her.
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Summary: Explain, don't excuse
Review: Nancy Springer's "I Am Mordred" is still one of the most original and intriguing retellings of Arthurian legend. Now there is a prequel to that work "I Am Morgan Le Fey," a haunting story of a young girl's gradual downhill stumble.Morgan's father died the night she saw a strange man going off with her mother Igraine. That man, the king, soon took Igraine to be his queen, and her little daughters went to live with the nurse Ongwynn. During that time, Morgan falls in love with Ongwynn's doomed son Thomas, and learns of her own blossoming magical powers. But things take a nasty turn when she is a teenager. Armed with a druid stone and the aid of gods and fay, she goes on a quest to find her traumatized mother in Avalon. But losses and rejection will spur her on to a destiny that she was desperate to avoid... Like its sequel, "Morgan" is ultimately a psychological work. Springer avoids "it wasn't his/her fault" traps, instead focusing on explaining rather than excusing. The romance is bittersweet and well-written, which makes the violence and darker undercurrents even more disturbing. And though Morgan's glimpses of the future, we also see a few facets of what we also saw in "I Am Mordred" -- Morgan as she would be about twenty or thirty years in the future, and what she would do to her family. The main difficulty with the book is that in places it feels a little distended, as if the plot is being scraped a bit too thin. The writing is lush and detailed, with different atmosphere for different settings: Dreamy for Avalon, woodsy and homelike for Ongwynn's cottage, and dangerous for any of the roads. Morgan is a genuinely compelling anti-heroine, who will have readers wishing that her path were anything else. Thomas will win over readers as well, a quiet character who lacks Morgan's darkness. Igraine and Morgause may annoy the readers, and Ongwynn will interest as the surrogate grandmother figure. The other characters are pretty undeveloped, especially the villain. Definitely a good read for fans of good spins on Arthuriana, and definitely for fans of Morgan le Fay (I would recommend this highly over any other Morgan-related book).
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Summary: More More...
Review: Personally, I finished the book wanting more. Morgan le Fey reminded me of the spoiled girl in the Willy Wonka movie. I love Aurthurian folklore and I was hoping to read more about Morgan.
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Summary: An Enchanting Book!
Review: This book is about Morgan Le Fay and her magical life. This book has it all, romance, good, evil, but best of all; magic, enchantment, mistory, and wonder. Every sentence in this book intreages the mind of the reader, and takes he/she out of their seat, and into the magical world of Morgan Le Fay. I would deffenetly recommened this book to anyone with an imagination!
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Summary: Wonderful, ENCHANTING!!!
Review: This book is the BEST. King Aurther is not born yet. It tells about Morgan's childhood, fairies, first love, and killings. And it will bring you to that stage at the end of the book to get the next book; I am Mordred.
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Summary: Fate
Review: This book truly makes one feel for poor Morgan. Her mother wouldn't care if she had her head nailed to a wall, her sister is perfect, and the only person who ever truly loved her, her father, was brutally murdered by the cruel Uther Pendragon! The same man who murdered her father weds her mother. Her mother, Iragraine the Beautiful, gives birth to baby Arthur. How Morgan hates the baby. Iragraine loves him more than Morgan or her older sister Morgause. Time comes when Morgan Must flee her home with Morgause, her nurse, and a handsome youth with big blue eyes named Thomas. Morgan always felt something for Thomas ever since she was a little girl. When she learns he will die in battle, she panics. Why should one so innocent and pure of heart die in a king's pathetic battle? Uther Pendragon is dead and all the other men who want power are determined to win the throne, and the queen, Queen Iragraine! Morgan heals her nurse with her Druid stone. She found the stone the day her mother had surrendered to Uther Pendragon. The day she had encountered the fearsome sorcerer Merlin. Morgan Feared Merlin and despised the very Idea of being a sorcerer. One day, at Her Nurses home Cear Ongowyn, Morgan awakens in the middle of the night. She had received a calling. She knows she must go to Avalon. The packs her provisions and saddles up Thomas' pony Annie. On the way to Avalon, she meets a horrible night that tries to abduct her. His squire rushes over and it is none other than Thomas! Annie springs to Morgan's defense and the Knight lops off the pony's head. then the night tries to Hurt Thomas and Morgan could stand no more. she touches her milperve, the druid stone, and screams, "Death to the knight!" and the knight falls down dead. Thomas and Morgan travel to Avalon together. There Morgan learns how to be a fay and meets her Mother, though her title Iragraine the Beautiful is know a Mockery. Morgan sends Thomas away because she feared that her love for him with cause him harm. Morgan hears much about fate and hates it. She leave Avalon and goes back to Cear Ongwyn and her nurse passes away and Morgause goes off to find a sweetheart. Morgan prepares the palace for Thomas and he comes to Cear Morgana, Morgan's name for the palace. He doesn't like Morgan never letting him do anything on his own and grabs The milperve away for her and the palace melts away. And nothing can prepare Morgan for what came next, though both her and Thomas knew it would happen!
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Summary: Powerful writing and a Tragic tone!
Review: This book truly makes one feel for poor Morgan. Her mother wouldn't care if she had her head nailed to a wall, her sister is perfect, and the only person who ever truly loved her, her father, was brutally murdered by the cruel Uther Pendragon! The same man who murdered her father weds her mother. Her mother, Iragraine the Beautiful, gives birth to baby Arthur. How Morgan hates the baby. Iragraine loves him more than Morgan or her older sister Morgause. Time comes when Morgan Must flee her home with Morgause, her nurse, and a handsome youth with big blue eyes named Thomas. Morgan always felt something for Thomas ever since she was a little girl. When she learns he will die in battle, she panics. Why should one so innocent and pure of heart die in a king's pathetic battle? Uther Pendragon is dead and all the other men who want power are determined to win the throne, and the queen, Queen Iragraine! Morgan heals her nurse with her Druid stone. She found the stone the day her mother had surrendered to Uther Pendragon. The day she had encountered the fearsome sorcerer Merlin. Morgan Feared Merlin and despised the very Idea of being a sorcerer. One day, at Her Nurses home Cear Ongowyn, Morgan awakens in the middle of the night. She had received a calling. She knows she must go to Avalon. The packs her provisions and saddles up Thomas' pony Annie. On the way to Avalon, she meets a horrible night that tries to abduct her. His squire rushes over and it is none other than Thomas! Annie springs to Morgan's defense and the Knight lops off the pony's head. then the night tries to Hurt Thomas and Morgan could stand no more. she touches her milperve, the druid stone, and screams, "Death to the knight!" and the knight falls down dead. Thomas and Morgan travel to Avalon together. There Morgan learns how to be a fay and meets her Mother, though her title Iragraine the Beautiful is know a Mockery. Morgan sends Thomas away because she feared that her love for him with cause him harm. Morgan hears much about fate and hates it. She leave Avalon and goes back to Cear Ongwyn and her nurse passes away and Morgause goes off to find a sweetheart. Morgan prepares the palace for Thomas and he comes to Cear Morgana, Morgan's name for the palace. He doesn't like Morgan never letting him do anything on his own and grabs The milperve away for her and the palace melts away. And nothing can prepare Morgan for what came next, though both her and Thomas knew it would happen!
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Summary: Totally amazing!!
Review: This book was one of the best books I have read in a while. It makes me want to learn more about her. I don't really know much about King Arthur or Camelot before this book, but now I can't get enough!! Everyone needs to read this book.
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Summary: The best book I have read in a while!
Review: This book was truly a one-in-a-million kind of literature! It spun an invisable thread that pulled me in and wouldn't let me put it down until I finished it. Its gorgeous, beautiful prose flows so smoothly and its lovely images that it projects are like poetry. I utterly reccomend this book! This book begins with young Morgan (before she became Morgan le Fay) living with her older yet more timid sister Morgause, her beautiful mother Ingraine, her beloved father who has an aweful fate, and her nurse who is really a wise woman. Morgan sees her father die a gruesome death and her mother be taken away by the evil king Uther Pendragon, and she doesn't know what to do. Between finding a magic stone and discovering her true powers of fey, and setting her eyes upon a beautiful boy named Thomas, then leading him to his own death, you can almost relate to Morgan as a real teenager, yet she is so much more.
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Summary: Absolutely Breathtaking!
Review: This has to be the best book I have EVER read in my entire life. It not only contains magic, suspense, betrayle, and hatered, but it also containes passion,undieing love,and loss. This story is about a little girl who doesn't really know her destiny, and as she grows up she starts to find it step by step. She finds a magical druid stone one day, and then, before she knows it, starts to start on a never ending adventure- literally. For Morgan le Fay means Morgan the fate, and this fated girl will have to live with the scars of her youth for the rest of her life, and be burdend with the infamous power that brought her those scars. For she is Morgan le Fay...
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