"I am Morgan le Fay, and I will never die. I hover on the wind, and fate falls out of each slow beat of my wings. That is what my name means: Morgan the fate, Morgan the magical, Morgan who must be feared. Ever since I became interested in Arthurian legends, I've been fascinated with the character of Morgan le Fay. I know that in many retellings and sources she's portrayed as a villain or bad character, the one who is involved in Arthur's doom, so I naturally steer towards stories which show

I Am Morgan Le Fay is a young adult novel which tries to give Morgan Le Fay more of a reason for her actions and more psychological depth. It’s reasonably successful in that, though it’s not one of my favourite Arthurian stories I’ve ever read — it seems a bit slight, and Morgan’s behaviour and the outcome was entirely obvious. The mythology is a bit of a hotchpotch, but I didn’t mind that too much because it was so lightly touched on. Cernunnos is a character, but it doesn’t really go into the

A very nice addition to the body of works featuring a female-centric, pagan-influenced take on the Arthurian mythos. It's not as complex as 'The Mists of Avalon' (which it is clearly influenced by), but it shares some of the same themes.Here, we see events from Morgan's point of view, as she grows up in tune with old magics, and discovers a stone that enhances her powers. Hurt by the traumatic events that shake her family, she is often blind to her own faults - but she is also not unsympathetic....

Morgan Le Fay. A woman of mystery, of evil, of legend. Who was she? What made her turn evil and bring down her half brother Arthur?This book tells the why's of Morgan's life.Ok so first off I picked this book up because I just finished watching BBC Merlin and I wanted to hear a different take on Morgana's story.At first I couldn't really get into this book and I almost put it down several times for it was slow at the beginning. About the fourth chapter into it though it really started grabbing m...

Nancy Springer's humble little duology (this one + its predecessor, I Am Mordred) was strangely formative for my young mind. These are books aimed at much older teens (at the earliest). The content is highly mature. I don't mean steamy medieval romance mature. I mean, rape-your-sister-then-try-to-murder-the-resulting-baby mature. Think Game of Thrones, for teenagers. I read this around the tender age of 9 or 10. (My parents never paid attention to what I was reading; their perspective was pretty...

Morgan was born into a world where women have little power, where men make all of the decisions, where a son is valued highly above a daughter. But there is a power reserved for the women alone. It is the power of the Fay, the Faerie. When Morgan learns to harness that magical power for herself, she changes history, for she is the half sister of the legendary King Arthur. She is Morgan le Fay, and her power will bring down Camelot.The legend of King Arthur is a timeless tale that has been explor...

Although his many duties as the Duke of Cornwall often kept him away from home, young Morgan loved her father. And when the six-year-old witnessed a man leaving her mother's chamber, a man that looked just like her father but was nothing like him, she knew something was wrong. For her father was dead - killed by the king Uther Pendragon, who then steals Morgan's mother away. Bitter with anger and resentment, the little girl awakens something magical within her - a power that can be used for good...

Audiobook edition. Read by Jenny Sterlin, which is the main reason I chose this book. She's one of my favorite readers.I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book, the story of the childhood and coming to maturity of Morgan, Arthur's half-sister. If you enjoy Arthurian stories, this is a good one.

This Book was amazing. I had always heard about Morgan Le Fay,since i love stories about Camelot, King Arthur, and just Arthurian legend in general, but i had never gotten this much of a look. Even though it is fiction, it almost makes you feel like the real Morgan Le Fay is telling the story, it has many of the same emotions in it that you would expect someone to have with what happens to her. My favorite part is when she is in Avalon as a little girl, and she sees the rest of the fates and the...

I read this back in 6th Grade. Loved it to pieces. And having recently found it lying in an extremely dark corner under my bed a couple of days ago, I decided to crawl into bed and re-read it. I still love it to pieces. I'd always thought the Arthurian Legend was fascinating, but I'd never really liked the guy. Neither did I have much interest in his best friend Sir Lancelot or his lover, Guinevere. On the contrary, I liked Arthur's half sister, Morgan. And Mordred. And while I'm ranting on with...

I would give this 3,5 stars—a good read but it did not fully transport me. The second part of the book hooked me more than the first (compared to ‘I am Mordred’ which hooked me from the start). “It was a hard thing being a woman, and unfair.” I liked that this book showed us the different ways in which the unfairness bestowed upon women effected them. And the morbid beauty of self-fulfilling prophecies. Fate is a bitch and so Morgan became something that protected herself against it, I like th...

I read this when I was younger and it was my absolute favorite book. I read it again for book clubs Nostalgiathon and it didn’t disappoint. I will always love this book!

Narrated by Morgan, Springer's plot tells the well known legend of Arthur from a feminine perspective.A novel with a similar theme:Mist of Avalon

This is probably a 2.5 star read for me. Repetitive at times, it never explained why Morgan was Fay. Decapitation features prominently in the stories of two main characters. I felt bored during certain sections and had to force myself to continue. The first few descriptions of Avalon and the magic therein were pretty good.

Makes me want to read King Arthur !!

I had very low expectations for this book, it being a very small, very short, very cheap pocket paperback. I picked it up anyway, because I'm such a sucker for any take on Arthurian lore, especially ones that humanize and focus attention on Morgan le Fay. And, in the beginning, I very much liked it. We get a very up-close version of Uther coming to Igraine disguised as Igraine's husband from the view of a little girl who can only see her father, but knows something isn't right. And after Uther d...

I was pleasantly surprised by this novel which has quickly became my favourite Morgana related novel. I've read "I am Mordred" many years ago and I fear I don't remember it much, so I am sure this novel can be read quite indipendently from it. (view spoiler)["I am Morgan le Fay" is a novel that tells us the story of Morgana but all in the years before Arthur's kingdom, in fact the novel starts with Gorlois being killed and ends with Arthur taking the sword from the stone and Morgana travelling t...

I've been a King Arthur fan since I was a kid. I found this book, years ago, just wandering through the library and took it, since it was something new. I loved it. This book shows us everything that Morgan did to become the woman so often featured in lore, a woman whose past is never described. We know her only as the half-sister bent on the destruction of Arthur and everything he created in his name. Her past is dismissed as unimportant, leaving us to assume and interpret what happened to her....

When I first read this book, I was a twelve year old just becoming interested in Arthurian legend, but had never before heard of Morgan le Fay. I bought the book and read it in the span of a two or three days. Since then I've re-read it several times, and I grow more and more in love with it as I do.Springer's writing is so vivid and detailed I sometimes re-read it just for the imagery my mind creates. Never have I read Morgan's tale in such a detailed and beautiful manner, even describing a few...

Probably the book that inspired me to read more. I loved it so much. Its from the point of view of Morgan Le Fay and bits of her life before she becomes the woman who is feared...not sure if that was right but anyways before the time when she becomes "evil" as a lot of literature describes her. Its an easy book, I love the way things carry on and the dynamics of the sisters. This pretty much pushed me to research about Arthurian legends. OH god it was just really good.

I fell in love with this book as a kid, and I can still vividly recall many scenes from it. Morgan hiding in the forest with Annie... Morgan and her sister Morgause in their nurse's dug-out home.... Morgan's mother sitting before a mirror, murmuring, "Arthur, Arthur" over and over again. Hoping to reread this soon, maybe in the summer (2014).

I liked this book very much for several reasons, One of them is the setting. Medieval England is the best! simply the rich culture (and religion!) of that area captured by this book are amazing! Another reason is that Avalon was simply so enchantingly and vividly described that I could almost vividly see it in my mind’s eye! Overall this is a really good book and a must-read

It was an okay time killer but I just couldn't relate or anything to the book. THe ending was kinda stupid. She didn't get the guy, i think he dies in battle or something because its his "fate". Its all about how you can't cheat fate.

Most people know Morgan Le Fay as an evil sorceress, but when you read her life story, you think differently. The book is so amazing! But if you don't like crying emotional books, do NOT read it. It's really four books in one. But I highly recommend it.

3.75/5I Am Morgan le Fay is an interesting reading experience. When it's good, it's incredibly good, and when it's bad, it's sort of mediocre. It's hard for me to describe just how much I loved the first half of this book. It jettisoned me back into my childhood self, just discovering fantasy. It reminded me of reading The Dark is Rising for the first time as a 12 year old, and the sense of shivery magic that is so deeply rooted in a place that it feels like it could be real. I absolutely loved

If this was one of those books you inhaled during your lunch or study period, do your inner child a favor and re-read it. Otherwise, it's a good "I need to waste a few hours and can't sleep" read.I can vividly remember reading this in elementary school, no more than eight years old, and at twenty five, it stuck with me- specifically the ending, and I was DYING to know why. I picked this up and read it in about five hours, in one sitting, it was just as impactful as I remembered, moreso now, sinc...

I first read this book as a child. Around when I was in 5th or 6th grade. I remember falling in love with the story and being so fascinated by Morgan. I was just starting to get into Arthurian legends and I loved how this book shined a different light on Morgan. Morgan, the half-sister of King Arthur, is usually portrayed as not truly evil but manipulative and selfish. This book is a look into her childhood, and the events that have altered her views on life. Nancy Springer brings so much comple...

*Read this as an audio book* This was a high 3 for me almost a 4 i loved the start of the book but my interest dropped off around the time Morgan got to Avalon. it seemed rushed to end and doesn't do a very good job of explaining her magic and how shes learned to use her new powers. Maybe it was because of it being an audio book and i was coming to the end of my work day where i can listen to books while i work that made me get lost during the final chapters of this or maybe it was just the rush...

Beautifully written, and so terribly sad! From the death of her father when she was very young, to the forced marriage of her mother to the king (Uther Pendragon) who killed her father, to *that* man's death and her subsequent need to flee for her life, Morgan's story is sad. The only break she (and the reader) gets is during the few years when Morgan lives in hiding with her old nurse, a Cornish "peasant" who is revealed to be a wisewoman. At 15, Morgan is summoned to Avalon, and events are set...

* English / Italian review *- This novel gives a different perspective on Morgan Le Fay. Although it's definitely well written, the author to me was unable to infuse that sense of reality, magic and mysticism and the intuitions contained in the books by Marion Zimmer Bradley and/or Mary Stewart, so unfortunately this made it boring to me and I was unable to bond with the characters which to me it's fundamental to engage with a novel.- Questo romanzo dà una prospettiva diversa su Morgana la Fata....