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Le Vol de Pégase, tome 7 : La Tour et la Rûche

par Anne McCaffrey

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Séries: The Tower and the Hive (5), Le vol de Pégase (8)

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For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various talents to help mankind - some are telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid species that kills all life it finds.Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much - especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered - that the Hivers should have been exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family.The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances. They are confident of success - if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at destroying all they have worked for.… (plus d'informations)
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The conclusion of the Tower and Hive series. McCaffrey finally winds up all the far-reaching strands of her plot managing to give mostly happy ends at the finish. Some of this book feels forced- such as the strange relationship of Laria and Kincaid but other bits are quite fun. The sheer number of characters and their different settings gives a bit of a fractured feel to the book, I sort of want to concentrate on just one or two plot threads instead of six. It's a mixed bag for sure.
re-read 2/5/2023 ( )
  catseyegreen | Feb 5, 2023 |
We get a little more plot-wise since it's the last book and needs to wrap things up, though the wrap-up still feels kind of incomplete and all over the place. There are plotlines (e.g. assassination attempts) and entire characters (e.g. Vagrian) introduced for no apparent reason. They could have been cut out completely without impacting anything else.

Zara reverted back to her book 3 values, making me wonder if someone else entirely wrote book 4. And according to the acknowledgments, McCaffrey had no idea what conclusion she was writing toward for the first four books, which was probably why it took so long for book 5 to be written; no wonder everything seemed to fall apart and not move forward in the last few books.

As if what we already knew about Kincaid's toxic past from the last book wasn't enough, McCaffrey adds in this book that he had an abusive childhood and, later, a dead (male) lover. It's like she felt the need to "appease" readers for forcing a gay character on them by giving him every possible horrible event in his life. Although why she bothered to make him gay when he only has sex with a woman and starts a family with her is beyond me. WTF.

Overall, this series was a struggle to get through, and after my tough time with another of McCaffrey's series, I'm not going to give much more of my time to her. ( )
  hissingpotatoes | Dec 28, 2021 |
Anne McCaffrey is one of my all time favorite sc-fi/fantasy authors. Her 'The Tower and the Hive" series is among my favorite series of all time. The characters are engaging and the story grabs me right about and keeps me interested until the very end. I do feel that story gets a weak towards the middle but it picks up at the end. A great ending to a great series. ( )
  KateKat11 | Sep 24, 2021 |
This wasn't a great book, but it ended the series reasonably well. And it left me wishing there were more stories in this universe, from this point out. ( )
  bookbrig | Aug 5, 2020 |
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65 points, 3 ½ stars.

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You see how that official blurb for the book only has two sentences? Yeah, because that is about how much happened in this book. This was such a disappointing end to a series that started off so good. It was overly long and overly drawn out. Nothing happened expect deflection from things that were going to happen but didn't.

I was just so bored. Nothing that happened felt at all real to me. I didn't even want to finish the book and found that I just didn't care about what was happening on screen. Everything I did care about wasn't the focus, or kept getting interrupted. I just felt like I had to finish, for the sake of the four previous books I had read and mostly enjoyed.

The Tower and the Hive series, until this point, has mostly been focused on the characters. Characters I absolutely adored throughout the series. Now it focuses on nothing I cared about. There are a hell of a lot of info dumps, as all that stalling for time on the part of the author's for the previous two books in the series has caught up with her. There is a lot of McCaffrey trying to figure out the last of the outstanding problems for the series by the seat of her pants. There were even some problems that weren't even a problem prior to the start of this book for good measure. Overall a bore, and a chore, and annoying, too.

The best part of the series, the characters, were disappointing as well. Their final relationships were disappointing, and the screen time was almost non-existent (compared to The Rowan and Damia). The ending to their individual arcs were very bland and hurried. Just so disappointing.

And the science throughout the book (and perhaps the previous book, too, they all kind of just run together in my head) was ridiculous. Quite literally, I laughed out loud at some of the things that were accomplished "with science". I've read some doozies before, but this was quite special at times.

Overall, I loved the start to this series, but I'm so utterly and completely disappointed in the end. It just felt like it was stretching out the story to its detriment. I would recommend reading The Rowan as a standalone and leaving it there. ( )
  keikii | Jan 23, 2020 |
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For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various talents to help mankind - some are telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid species that kills all life it finds.Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much - especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered - that the Hivers should have been exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family.The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances. They are confident of success - if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at destroying all they have worked for.

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