== A plot carried out with trickery, lies and deceptions == “Camber of Culdi” was the fifth book published in the long series of fifteen Deryni fantasy novels (plus two books of short stories and two reference books, including the massive guide of the Deryni World, Codex Derynianus). But chronolo...
Out of all the Deryni books this is the one that is the hardest for me to reread. I am not disappointed when I do, as the story is perhaps the best of all her books, but it is also the most painful for me to read. It is tragic, and the events in this section of the history of Gwynedd has the mo...
Alaric Morgan has been pledged to the service of King Donal, stillgrieving following the death of his out-of-wedlock son, Kelson.Alaric brings peace of mind to Donal because he is Deryni, a raceof people who employs powerful magic --- a magic that can be usedto protect 14-year-old Prince Brion. Y...
The series is 16 books is deep and growing - and it's wonderful. Not light reading - very deep historical fantasy text - and brilliantly done by a woman who was a church historian for some 20 years.There are 14 books in the main cannon (so far - and a 15th on the way) - 6 in the "historical" tim...
Young Kelson Haldane, King of Gwynedd, heir to both royal and Deryni magical powers, was still no match for ex-Archbishop Loris and the Pretender Queen Caitrin who sought his death. Yet, he raised an army against them both, knowing that honor made defeat impossible....
“The Bishop’s Heir” is the first volume of “The Histories of King Kelson” trilogy. Out of the sixteen Deryni novels, this comes 13th chronologically, following “High Deryni”, but it was the 7th to be published in 1984, following “Camber the Heretic” in 1981.This book exemplifies what makes Kather...
Much like “Camber the Heretic,” which chronologically comes before this one, this is not an attention-keeping tome but even worse. I suppose readers who are not fascinated by the ritualistic episodes, which can go on for ten or twelve pages, will have to endure those elements in the narrative or ...
It was years ago when I ran across Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels. Oddly, I never read the first trilogy...I think as I get older I don't enjoy as much as I once might have stories of deception and the machinations of those who use lies, deception, and hatred to further their ends. Don't get me ...
If you read my review of Deryni Rising you know I didn't spend a lot of time on the fictional (fantasy) depiction of the church. That will not be possible here.The book itself follows the events having to do with the church demanding that Deryni (all Deryni) renounce their powers and abilities, o...
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature. Life's too short to read bad books! http://www.fantasyliterature.com/revi...High Deryni, originally published in 1973, is the third novel in Katherine Kurtz’s DERYNI CHRONICLES. In the first novel, Deryni Rising, young Prince Kelson, who has inh...
This the 9th book in the Deryni world setting that I have read. The storyline is enjoyable, but there are some elements that need to be dispensed with. For example, for 9 books I have had to endure the 'setting of the wards' ritual approximately two times per book (simple math; 18 times). Once...
Captain John Drummond of the LAPD is investigating an unsolved murder from more than thirty years ago-six unidentified men, bearing Nazi SS tattoos, drained of blood-that echoes a series of unexplained deaths around the world. But these murders go back further than he expected-to World War II,...
I had read the Chronicles of the Deryni before I read any of the Legends of Saint Camber. When I finally did read the Camber books, this was the first one I read, and talk about being completely lost!!!!!!BESURE to read Camber of Culdi, and Saint Camber first or you will have no clue what is goi...
This had been on my "get around to reading it" shelf for a while, and when I finally did, I was a little disappointed. Not alternate history in the traditional sense, instead it is a story of alternate explanations for what really happened. The down side is that much of the book is about Masonic ...
What Magic Can Stop Adolf Hitler -- History's Most Evil Black Magician? Modern War The year is 1940. Hitler's Germany is about to employ the secret arts of evil witchcraft to destroy England. What can stop them? Ancient Weapon It is the mission of John Graham, colonel in British Intelligence,...
—Psalms 37:35 A short while later, kneeling at the back of the convent church, Queron did his best to help Cathan regain some measure of equilibrium before leaving him. The younger man had done with weeping for the moment and now knelt merely trembling beside the brown-robed old priest, though hi...
Incredulously, Shannon looked back and forth between the two of them, expecting—and then hoping for—a sign of jesting that did not come. “That—that isn’t funny,” she murmured, fighting back a nervous laugh as she set both hands very precisely on the desk top in front of them. “There are no such t...
Drawn back toward self-awareness, he oriented toward the voice, swimming languidly upward through milky layers of translucent light toward a distant point of brightness which was the present moment in time. The sensation was effortless, even agreeable. He broke the surface with a slight start and...
Thinking back over his twenty-seven years’ service as a gamekeeper, Jimmy McArdle could recall only a handful of times when there had been snow on the ground so early in the season, with the first of December still nearly a fortnight away. It would bring the deer down early this year. He must see...
—BARUCH 1:14 ALYCE shared what she had read with her sisters—Marie first, since they were accustomed to working mind-to-mind. Marie wept with emotion when it was done, then dried her tears—glad ones, this time, unlike those of the previous weeks—and gathered up the finished half of the gar...
He was still in riding clothes, having just come in from a brisk, early morning canter over the grounds of his country estate, not far from Edinburgh. Sunlight was pouring into the little parlor always called the “honey-bee room,” because of the pale gold pattern of bees and flowers on the wallpa...
—PROVERBS 20:11 AS it happened, there was more than enough time for letter writing, for the start of Duke Andrew’s Requiem was somewhat delayed owing to the sheer number of local folk come to pay their respects to their late duke. Accordingly, it was mid-afternoon before Kenneth could lead his pa...
Wampyr. Hier. As Baumann looked out across the expanse of snow, watching the Soviet guards make their rounds at the prison hospital where the Cossacks had led him, his escape from the Russians seemed as if it had happened a thousand years ago. He had learned a great deal since then. He watched th...
During the two centuries that followed, the Templars established a well-deserved reputation as (among other things) superb fighting men and incomparable financiers. In the less than two hundred years the Order formally existed, they also achieved a notoriety unprecedented among other religious or...