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Summary: THIS BOOK WAS GREAT !!! all most as good as her pern books !
Review: i just got done reading this book and it was great !!!!! the people that the rowan meets and has friendships are so much like my own live that it shocked me !!! please if you haven't read this book before you most !!!!
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Summary: An engaging book
Review: The characters in the book are well developed, and McCaffrey does an excellent job of drawing the reader into their lives. Unlike many portrayals of telepathic people, McCaffrey considers the issue of raising a child with significant telepathic powers. The book contains some irritating inconsistencies (where were the editors?), and the powers of the characters seem to expand and contract at the convenience of the author. Despite all of this, it is an enjoyable book, I can recommend it without hesitation.
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Summary: This book was absolutely marvelous !!!!!
Review: I'm an ardent fan of Ms. McCaffrey's Pern books but I didn't know how well I'd like these (The Rowan,Damia, Damia's Children,and Lyon's Pride)but they're fantastic!!! When I read I become totally absorbed in my books, and they become reality. A couple of times I've caught myself trying to 'path my parents to tell them something!!!!
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Summary: The best sci-fi from McCaffrey in years....!
Review: I love McCaffrey's works. She has enchanted me with the Dragonrider series and caught my heart with such books as the Coelura and The Girl Who Heard Dragons. But with the Rowan, Ms. McCaffrey has gone above and beyond her own ability. I LOVED the Rowan so much! It tells a story of courage, love and life. It makes you long for more and wishe that YOU were Jeff Raven or Afra Lyon or the Rowan herself. It is possibly the best book that McCaffrey has written in many years. It's not about the struggle between human and hive creatures, it's about the struggle of one girl, alone and scared, who triumphs above those that would keep her down. I cried. A lot. And I needed to. I could relate to the Rowan in so many ways. I wanted to know her and hold her. I loved her. Those things may sound weird, but that's just the way I feel. I also love the other books in the series. Especially Damia and Lyon's Pride. Great Books! Marvelous Work! I've said it once, I'll say it agian: Anne McCaffrey is the Queen of Science Fiction! NO ONE SURPASSES HER!!!! NO ONE!!! She rules! Thanx, Storyweaver
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Summary: The ROWAN is Amaizing!!
Review: The ROWAN is a book like no other. It tells of our future. Of mind powers that we elove called Talents. Rowan is a story of one Talent who is left alone in the world, is taken under federaltion, and has a lonely childhood. Growing up, she discovers how powerful she really is. After almost ten years of running her own tower, she meets the Raven of Deneb. He is the only other talent as powerful as she is. A long-distance telekinetic romance blooms, but an old child-hood fright makes Rowan unable to ever travel through space to Deneb. Finally, a major accident mortally wounds Raven, and in her dexperation to reach him, the Rowan must travel through the darkness. But will she be to late? Excellent Book!
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Summary: This book is tuely a work of art and should be read by all.
Review: This book is one of the best i have ever read! It caught and held me from the beginning. I wasn't able to put it down until i finished and i want to read more of it!
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Summary: Sreaming Sci-Fi
Review: I Reread this book over and over again! Each time I get something new out of it because the characters are so invigorating! It is a must read for everyone, the story of a child whose screams deafened a planet and the way she grew up. I found it fasinating, the way Rowan deals with having a high talent. Her personality and characters not only in this book, but also in the other three books that came after. This book really hooked me onto Ann McCaffrey, and I think it will hook anyone who is a sci-fi fan of great writers!
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Summary: A book you can never put down!
Review: This book portals you into another world, and keeps you there. I do not read many books that I never want to let down, and this one was very difficult to let go of. The magic between the two characters is spellbinding, and everyone of the characters had an entity of their own. I loved this book and would recommend it to everyone that loves adventure, sci-fi, and chemistry between characters. The first book in a series, and it never disapointed me in the least!
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Summary: Another great series by Anne McCaffrey
Review: When I started the "Talent"-series with "The Rowan", I was rather wary to try it. I'm a great "Pern" fan and I was not shure if Anne McCaffrey could do something equal again. But I was surprised beyond my expectations. She did it again! The Rowan is an interesting character, a woman with a lot of power and a difficult youth, but still very human. As is Jeff Raven. The society based on Talents gives a great backround for the characters to act upon. It's good enough to support the whole series. So go on with "Damia" , "Damia's Children"! The only weak point are those spider-like creatures, the main enemies. They are a little to ordinary for my taste. But that does barely lessen the fun reading the book. So go on, do it
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Summary: Spellbinding...great lead into the series.
Review: When the reader begins the Rowan Series, this book convinces him or her that it is truly going to be good. It opens innocuously enough: a remote mining settlement on the planet Altair; a large rainstorm; a mother rushing home with her parcels. And a child in its sturdy little hopper, unaware that an immense amount of mud is about to slide into the Rowan camp in a wave of brown sludge and obliterate it so completely the rest of the planet won't know it's gone until days later...when the child broadcasts a psychic wail so loud the entire planet hears it. The child's immense potential is immediately realized... Thus begins the Rowan's tale and life. It is a tale of courage, triumph and loss. Still young, the Rowan loses two of her most treasured companions, almost loses her own life, and leads an entire star system and its collected minds to a triumphant defeat over an alien armada determined to exterminate the Human race once and for all. And in the midst of all this she finds a true love, amidst the ruins of interstellar battle, a man whose mind is as powerful as hers. And with the guidance she needs the Rowan discovers who her parents were and who she really is. This book is a must-read for both readers of Anne Mccaffrey and the sci-fi genre in general.
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