Prince of the Godborn

by Geraldine Harris

Book Overview

In the first part of 'Seven Citadels', Prince Kerish, pampered favorite son of the Emperor of Galkis, and his half-brother Forollkin, are sent to find seven sorcerers who each hold the key to a gate.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688017924
• ISBN13: 9780688017927
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Greatest book ever written (after the other volumes)

It's ironic that I bought the four books, in a bookmarket last year because they were at 1.500 escudos (what makes something like 7.5 dollars), the four of them. At the moment I was having the post-Tolkien Fantasy idolatration and that's what made me buy it, but after reading it I understood that it is much more than a mere Fantasy story, it is about people, religion, culture, mythology and the deepness of the mind itself. There's only one thing I regreet, not have read it more carefully because these is a book full of ideas, and "understandigs" of the human kind (I don't know if I should have putten these in the kids section because I'm 13 but they only let me age myself till 12 there). And another thing, if someone knows about a site or a community connected to the Seven Citadels please mail-me to mailforthe@earthlings.co.uk .

Simply cannot understand why they don't reprint it

This is the first volume in probably the most beautiful fantasy series ever, and it's out of print. The whole series is out of print, in the USA as well as in Great Britain as well as in Germany (oh, it was quite a lovely translation, which is rare enough). It simply is not fair. I have never again encountered a hero as wonderful (and handsome) as Kerish lo'Taan, and a plot that left me closer to tears. If you should manage to get these books (all four of them - and if you spend decades with searching [I took four years], it's woth the efford) - don't expect them to be funny, or happy. They don't even end happy, and hardly a fantasy series dares to do that. I did not expect it when I read it the first time, and it nearly broke my heart. It took me some years (and quite a number of bad books) to realize that »The Seven Citadels« were the fantasy cycle to leave greatest influence on my own writing, if not on my way of thinking. Life is not fair. Get used to it ...

I must have read it a dozen times.

I have never understood why only part 1 and 2 in the series were ever published in Dutch. I had to wait 5 years before I mastered english sufficiently to read part 3 and 4. Ten years on it is still my favorite story. The setting, the developing characters, the adventure and the beautiful mythology. If you ever come across it, buy it!

Possibly the best fantasy series I've ever read.

This book was the first fantasy novel I read--thirteen years (and hundreds of fantasy novels) later, it is still my favorite. The characters are complex, their development enjoyable, and the setting is unique. I do wish the author would write another novel in the series--she left the readers dangling over a precipice

Seize it with both hands if you get the chance.

Dark, sophisticated, and whimsical ... altogether, this book deserves a 10 if only for the atmosphere. But it has even more going for it: the character delineation and fascinating plot seal its appeal. Although out of print, I heartily recommend seizing it if you get the chance. It's the first of a series of four, and if your tastes run to the gothic, ceremonial, and wistful, this is something you might savor