Even though the book is only 228 pages long, it holds so much substance and managed to tell such a full and rich story, I was in awe after I finished. Those characters are actually barely even mentioned and I loved that. All that happens in this book is set before the big events from Arthuriana, before Arthur became the king, before the knights and Mordred came into the whole image. She explained that she was always intrigued by the hidden truth and in case of Morgan (and Mordred) she wanted to unveil what hid behind their "villain"facades that so many writers like to show them as.Īs the title suggests I Am Morgan le Fay focuses on the life of Morgan, the daughter of Igraine and Gorlois and her growing up from a little girl to an adult and a woman from the legends. It sat on my bookshelf for quite few years, waiting until I'll be in the right mood for it, and I'm so so glad that I finally picked it up, because I absolutely loved it! I'll try to put my thoughts in some order, but I'm sorry if it will sound as too rambly.īefore I started the story, I read the information about the author on the back cover and that was already when I new that I'm going to love this book.
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 her differently and that was the reason why I bought I Am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer. That is what my name means: Morgan the fate, Morgan the magical, Morgan who must be feared.Įver since I became interested in Arthurian legends, I've been fascinated with the character of Morgan le Fay. I hover on the wind, and fate falls out of each slow beat of my wings.
"I am Morgan le Fay, and I will never die. In 2007 she surprised her friends and herself by moving with her second husband to an isolated area of the Florida panhandle, where the birdwatching is spectacular and where, when fishing, she occasionally catches an alligator.
She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding, fishing, and birdwatching. DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense.īorn in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery - although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession.
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