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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: This book is one of my favorites of all time. I recommend it to everyone of all ages. It has a good story line and the sequels are excellent also.
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Summary: More about CHARACTERS than SCIENCE ...
Review: Not hard core sci-fi. The whole setting is assumed, and requires unqualified acceptance. However, once a reader accepts space teleportation (with help from gestalt) and the blazing mind power of Talents, it is very absorbing. The characters are very attractive - The young Rowan herself, with her mane of silver hair and Afra Lyon the humourous if methody green Cappellan, play the major roles in the book. The romance between the Rowan and Jeff Raven is almost a convention. In this and the other books in this series, it is possible to respond quite emotionally towards the characters, as we are privy to thier innermost thoughts, while they telepath, broadcast to thier hearts' content! If nothing else I admire McCaffery for her splendid characterisation.PS. I LOVE the book, but am trying to be objective here! PPS. Keep an eye on your own reactions to POWER and RANK (T-1, T-2, T-3 etc.) while you are reading this. It is quite revealing.
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Summary: Diverting
Review: The Rowan is highly captivating - her character was extremely well done. It's especially nice when a novel is so well immersed in interesting details rather than boring backtalk - you can almost visualize the little personality quirks of each character. This is probably my favorite among all of Anne McCaffrey's novels. I've read Damia, Damia's Children and Lyon's Pryde in this series but the Rowan remains the one I would most highly praise.
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Summary: I loved the book, but why did Lusena have to die?
Review: Lusena took care of The Rowan since The Rowan was a little child. She didn't deserve to die because she helped The Rowan and taught her everything she knows. Other than that, the book was great. It was very interesting and was written really well. Anne McCaffrey is a great writer and I hope to read all of the sequels from the book THE ROWAN in the future and I hope they are as great as the book I've just read. I recommend this book to anyone who loves romantic,yet serious,yet funny,yet sad, yet interesting,soothing books. A 5 star rating.
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Summary: It was good but what about the ones before it?
Review: I really liked this bok but no one is talking about Pegasus in Flight and To Ride Pegasus!Those were my favorites! The Rowan was good but near the end I got bored. I was thinking, "Just a few more pages then its over." Of course it ended explosively and I liked the rest of the series. I did like the book and would reccommend it to everyone.
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Summary: My first McCaffrey book,(I've so far read over 20!)
Review: This was my first book by McCaffrey and certainly not my last. After I finished this book I went on to read the rest of the Rowan series, various novels, and finally the Pern series. This is a great introduction to her talents and you WILL NOT BE DISAPOINTED!!!McCaffrey is a prolific writer as well as extremely talented.
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Summary: one of the best books I have read
Review: This book had me enthrawled from beginning to end. I enjoyed it so much that when my 23 year son asked me did I have a book he could read I passed it on to him, he enjoyed it so much he read the rest of the Tower and Hive series, and for him that was a first he usually gets bored after the first book so if you haven't read it, try it for yourself I won't spoil your read by recounting the storyline
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Summary: More of a romance in sci-fi clothing...Predictable
Review: I am a big fan of McCaffrey's Pern series, but was dissapointed with The Rowan. I found the story shallow and predictable with very little in the way of science fiction or fantasy--it's really just a poorly disguised romance between two telepaths/telekinetics: The Rowan and Jeff Raven. But I suppose if you like that sort of thing, then this would be up your alley. I just like a little more substance in my reading, and it wasn't here.
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Summary: one of the best except....
Review: i have to say that i am an avid fan of all McCaffrey's books - i'm waiting with baited breath for the publication of the next book on the talent series "Pegasus in Space". how many actually know there was another one on the way? but reading through the other reviews for The Rowan, i'm feeling quite releived that i'm not the only one who saw some terrible inconsistencies! what happened, Anne?!? but it was great, and i can recomend it and all of her other books to anyone willing to delve into the realm of sci-fi and fantasy
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Summary: I fell in love with the subject! I wish I was telekinetic!
Review: This book...trapped me. I loved it. I can read it over and over. The characters have depth and color and I never got bored. The general idea of telepaths and telekinetics and their emotional reactions is amazing, in all the many sci-fi novels I have read since, I have never come across a more endearing love story. I do have to say, though that there are a number of descrepancies.(I never figured out what color one character's eyes were, it kept changing) Over all, I loved the plot and the characters. And though I had read Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels, this is the book that got me hooked on sci-fi! But, be warned...I can't read a book now without there being a raven in it. My cousin gets so mad at me because I talk about it to her incessantly. If you haven't read it, please do!
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