== 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...
“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...
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 ...