Lyon's Pride (Rowan , Bk. 4)

by Anne McCaffrey

Book Overview

A DESTRUCTIVE SPECIES The Hive acts as a single entity, relentlessly swarming the galaxy, endlessly propagating on every habitable world they encounter--destroying native populations in the process.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399139079
• ISBN13: 9780399139079
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 1.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

IT WAS A PRETTY GOOD BOOK

this book had just about everything i wanted to know about Damia's kids ecept i wanted to know more about Laria and how things were going with her.And the talk about the palent M-5 was a bit confusing and wasn't Asia Rojer's cousin or was she Rohid's cousin? But anyway I WOULD try to sumarise this book for you but so many things happen that it would be impossible.Overall, this is a really goodbook and i would reccomend it to anyone who likes action,tears,and romance.

Lyon's Pride

Anne McCaffrey just keeps getting better and better. It has everything a good book needs, action, adventure, loss and love. This book mainly foces around the action, but In still love it.

Great book!

Lyon's Pride is great, I've read P.E.R.N. and Acorna, but my favorite of McCaffrey's seris' is the Rowan seris. It is interesting to see a family, born from a orphan, grow to be the largest influence around. THe children face hardships that can occur, and they deal with them. It's a realistic book/seris other than the telempathic-kenetic abilities. I loved Rowan and I have enjoyed the seris through Lyon's Pride. Its is wonderful. I suject anyone read it.

McCaffrey's muse seems muted

After reading DAMIA'S CHILDREN I ran around looking for the next book in the series, desperate to find out how the plot would follow on. I wasn't entirely disappointed, but then again I wasn't exactly riveted by the story at the beginning. As in the other three books in the TALENTS series (THE ROWAN, DAMIA, DAMIA'S CHILDREN) some scenes which could have been really descriptive and enthralling were scrimped on. The last battle between the Talents and the Hivers was very disappointing. There was little sense of achievement, of a legend being made. But if you're not one for descriptive writing, and prefer a fastpaced, intricate plot, you'll enjoy LYON'S PRIDE. Just make sure you've read the other TALENT books first, or you'll really miss out.

Average compared to others in this series, but worth reading

Lyon's Pride was a Pyrrhic Victory: it didn't lack the flair and prestige of Anne McCaffrey that made the Rowan Series famous, but the storyline made too little of a progress with this book. The previous book in the series, Damia's Children, was a shining star in all of McCaffrey's books, but it lacked one thing: a good ending. Upon the last word of the last page several tales drop away, leaving the reader on multiple cliffhangers and wondering what happens next. Lyon's Pride sews all of those cliffhangers together seamlessly, so perfectly that the two were probably written as one. Lyon's Pride is filled with the realism and unique storyline of the Rowan Series. Its protagonists meet tragedy, danger, exhilaration and even romance head-on, making the book hard to put down. No book is without its share of flaws, and Lyon's Pride unfortunately has two big ones. The first is that the storyline has made very little progress. Holes in the patchwork before were sewed up here, and even questions all the way from the first book in the series are answered, like just what happened to the baby Cera Gwyn-Raven after her life and mentality were laid on the line. But in sewing up the holes to some of the previous problems Anne also ended some of the stories. Readers expecting the captured queen Hiver to do something in this book will be disappointed, especially since that was one of the tallest pinnacles of the previous book. And the last flaw? The book ends with another not-so-good ending, making a sequel necessary. The longest running plot here, the dilemna of coping with an alien species bent on purging the galaxy of all life forms, is unfinished in Lyon's Pride. You'll want to read this book to have your questions about Damia's Children answered, but not too much happens here.