Customer Reviews

Night's Child (Sweep, No. 15)

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Before anybody buys this book, let's make one thing clear: Moira's Story is the same thing as Night's Child. Moira's Story was a filler title before the title Night's Child was even decided. Amazon.com just never changed it.

This book is a library bound book, meaning it's a paperback bound with a hardcover. This makes paperback-released-only books more durable on the library shelves than a flimsy paperback (which can get torn up).

You can buy this if you so desire, but don't expect this to be a new Sweep book (the series is over, unfortunately).

I hope this helps out some people.

After the colossal disappointment of the last book in the Sweep series "Full Circle", I was both relieved and wary that another conclusion had been written. "Night's Child" is set several years after the events of "Full Circle" with Morgan and Hunter as twenty-something year olds. Proposing marriage, Hunter plans to settle down and run New Charter (the new alternative to the Council) from home. He has only one last journey to make, and it is here that disaster strikes. The ferry he is travelling on sinks, and no trace is found of Hunter, dead or alive.

The story picks up again fifteen years later: Morgan had married a man named Colm and they had a daughter named Moira. Unfortunately Colm was killed in a car accident and now Morgan and Moira live together in Ireland, members of the Belwicket coven. Despite this tragedy, the two of them are happy enough - despite the rivalry between Belwicket and another coven led by Lilith Delaney that is rumoured to dabble in black magic.

But then things begin to happen: Morgan finds dark magic littered around her front garden, and objects on the ground that remind her of Hunter. When Moira begins dating Ian Delaney, Lilith's son, Morgan is terrified the past is repeating itself in terms of her history with Selene and Cal. Afraid for her daughter Morgan begins an investigation to find who is behind these attacks - could it be to do with her father's family? Are Lilith and Ian really dangerous? Is it possible that Hunter is still alive? Is another dark wave looming?

At times, especially near the beginning, the writing is slow and sluggish with detailed descriptions of Moira's witchcraft classes and Morgan's healing rites. Often Tiernan repeats or contradicts herself several times in the text, for instance, Morgan thinks: "To end a relationship with her soulmate was fighting destiny." On the very next page we are told: "With the way things were, they had to pursue their separate destinies." Er - is it just me, or did Tiernan just tell us that soulmates shared the *same* destinies? There are several more inconsistencies like this throughout the story.

Furthermore, Tiernan's grasp of Irish dialect is painful to behold: "Away with ya" and "what a beautiful day, nae?" appear clumsy and inaccurate. Although the main culprit behind the attacks is an innovative idea, Tiernan drives home the possibility of Ian being evil so many times that it becomes fairly certain he *isn't*.

Readers may be vastly disappointed at the lack of characters appearing from previous books. Bree, Robbie, Raven, Alyce, Alwyn, Mary K. and Morgan's parents are all given brief updates on where they are and what they're doing, but the rest of the Kithic coven are completely forgotten. Alisa is mentioned, but no information is given on what she's now up to, which is really quite unforgivable considering Tiernan devoted an entire book to her in the series. Killian turns up briefly and out of the blue, and then just as inexplicitly disappears. Daniel Niall is mentioned several times, but no information is given on either him or his other son Linden. Dagda is dead. Only Sky is given a useful and interesting place within the context of the story.

Yet despite all this, "Night's Child" was the conclusion to this series that I was hoping for. Morgan is a reasonable portrayal of the teenager we knew in the series, and Moira is a likeable, spunky young heroine who reacts realistically enough to the situation unfolding around her. There are some nice new characters, such as Morgan's mother-in-law Katrina, and toward the end the plot unfolds quickly and excitingly. This should definitely be the end of the "Sweep" series, as Tiernan only just gets away with recycling several old ideas (ie, a replay of the Selena/Cal storyline, another dark wave, another threat from Morgan's family) and it wraps up nearly every loose end from the other books. Despite its faults, I was satisfied with this ending.

This is a new story of Morgan but not in the regular series (hence it is not labeled 15). Much time has gone by and Morgan has a 15-year-old daughter named Moira.

The book opens with a prologue not too long after Full Circle. Morgan has returned to Ireland and is helping to rebuild Belwicket. Hunter is traveling all over setting up the New Charter, the successor of the Council. But tragedy strikes and the book shoots forward 15+ years.

The story is told in alternating fashion between Morgan's and Moira's viewpoints. Moira is looking forward to her initiation and a boy seems to be interested in her. Her mother is immediately suspicious. Between that and spellcraft homework, Moira comes to learn far more of her mother's past. As she tries to deal with the knowledge and how it might affect herself, Moira gets caught up in events as danger returns from the past.

An excellent story that starts grim but is compelling right to the wonderful ending. Hopefully there will be more of these Super Editions in the future.

This is the 15th book in the series and I have got to say that it's better than all of the others put togther. Ms Tieran really does exceed herself with this latest instalment. I'm not going to give to much away about the story because it is so full of twists and turns you HAVE to read it for your self.
This book is based twenty years later than the rest of the series when Morgan is a full grown woman and initiated witch. The story is told by Morgan and her 15 year old daughter Moira.
The prologue of the book misleads you into thinking that the story is going to be terrible, but believe me it does get MUCH better. The Prolouge is so sad that it had me in tears! I did'nt think that I could possibly read the rest of it!
But as with all of the sweep collection it is full of heartache, love, betrayal and some serious magic.
This book will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. I really hope that Tieran writes another one for the series because they just keep getting better and better.
One thing that I really loved about this book was seeing how much Morgan had grown and what had happened to the other main characters from the collection over the years.
If your a fan of the Sweep collection you have to read this book, but if you hav'nt read the other books I would advise you do so or else it won't be nearly as good!
I know you'll all enjoy this one.

well, overall the book was really great. it was satisfying to know what happened to morgan...but she just wasn't the same. i mean, lets be honest, didnt we all kinda love her as that young, AMAZING, inexperienced teenager? i know i did.

before i read nights child, i had read all the other 14 books twice, and even though i knew what was going happen, it was sooo sweet with hunter and all that. after reading night's child, i feel like morgan is a very differnt person than she used to be, and now i just cant go back to reading her as a teenager. i feel sort of...unconnected to her. maybe its only because i AM a teenager, young and inexperienced. but this new morgan seems sort off sad and depressed without hunter, and with hunter shes not at all like her young self.

so, before you read the last book, make sure you WANT to know what happens, and not only what you wish would happen.
let me also just say i thought i was really depressing when you learned that she almost died after hunter did, and then she chopped her hair off. it makes me wonder how much of the love in this book could be real, and if you can really love someone as much as she loved hunter. can you? i really hope you can.
- Lia, 13 (PLEASE rate this!!)

Ok, I just picked up the first SWEEP book by incident about a week ago. And I got HOOKED! I mean, I actually was sorta stupid and picked the book up just because I loved witchcraft and, well, the character Morgan and I have the same name(yes, stupid reason, but moving on...). But, anyways, I got SO hooked, and ended up reading the whole 14 books within a week! I could really relate to Morgan, and the books were just really realistic and well done, unlike some books that are way to predicatable and make teens out to be moody and "Oh, whoa is me! The Earth is ending! Blahdadiblah"(and a lotta authors have done this, I swear to God). But Morgan, and all the other characters, you just had to love!
Anyways, when I picked up this book, I knew it hadn't gotten the best of reviews, but I said "Oh, what the heck. A lot of things get bad reviews, and you should just find your own opinion". Halfway through the book, I knew the reviews were true. I mean, it was written to be in like a week span, but the main character, Moira, found out about 4,000 things about her past!And it seemed like all the characters I had loved had changed into really annoying people! The only one of my favorite charcters that remained true was Sky, and she wasn't really a main part. Morgan was invincible, which really annoyed me, because one of the things that made the other 14 books so great was that she was still human, so still vulnerable. But now NO ONE CAN DEFEAT HER! I mean COME ON!
And Moira....Ok, I gotta tell you the truth, I REALLY didn't like her. I mean, she seemed like a sweet kid, but she didn't really seem to have any feelings about anything. If my dad had died just 6 months previously, I would probably not be in a cofffee shop fliritng with boys! She didn't seem to CARE that her father died! But I'm probably just being harsh about that...
Anyways, I'm not usually that harsh with books, but this was just really not well done. I agree with the reviewer who said it was better to just, after #14, make up your own ending for Hunter and Morgan, because it had to be better then this one(unless they died or something, then probably not...). All in all, I think Cate is a superb writer, but this was NOT her best book WHATSOEVER.

I have a die hard fan of the Sweep Series since the first book came out. I was so excited when I found out Night's Child was going to be released and I bought it the day it came out. As much as i love Sweep, I have to say that this final book was very dissapointing. The book felt forced and unrealistic. It was hard to get into the story because Morgan just didnt feel like the Morgan you get so close to in the rest of the series. With out Hunter, the story seems empty. I almost regret reading this book becasue it ruined the essence of the sweep series. I would still recommend reading the book, but just be prepared for a major let down.

I am sad that this is the last book of the Sweep series. I as satisfied with this book but a lil dissapointed. I was glad the Morgan still contacted her adopted family and Bree and Robbie. I was satisfied that the book mentioned what was going on with them and how they were along with some of the blood witches that were in the series. I was dissapointed that it didn't tell us how Alisa was doing or if she was still into Wicca or if she was initiated. Also some of the coven members from Kithic were not even mentioned. I was glad that Killian stay close to Morgan but his mother and other brother and sister were really mean to Morgan. Ciaran was mean to Morgan before he died. She had to do what she had to do. Iona is a bitch. Morgan is the Destroyer, the sguiurs dan. Morgan is like her birth father but she is the good version of him. Morgan can heal and destroy. There is a light and dark side to everything. Everything has to be in balance. Moira seems to have inheritied a lot of her mothers power. They both live in Ireland and Morgan has rebuild Belwicket along with some of the members that had survived the dark wave. Hunter is also in this book and so is Sky. Morgan is the most powerful witch that anyone has ever know. This book is good so I gave it 3 1/2 stars because of some of my dissapointments. Read to see what happens to Morgan, Hunter, and her daughter.

I liked this book, maybe not as much as the other WICCA books. I got confused a little about the whole jumping foward all those years bit. I dont like 15 year old Moira as much as I liked 17 year old Morgan. I liked the length of this book more than the others though, there was more attention to detail. I thought the whole de ja vu thing with Selene and Cal and Ian and his mum was quite good, but kind of the same thing that happened with Morgan when she was Moiras age. I would of definitly have liked to have read about Morgan's life from 17 onwards, instead of skipping straight to here. All in all, I do hope there is more books to follow this one. Anyone know if there is???

Well it was an okay book but left me empty inside. It was not as emotional. I love all 14 of the regular series but this one kinda made me mad. Morgan seems TOO powerful, like no challenge can come in her way. In the Sweep series shehad to figure out things and well there was a bit of luck to it. But in this book she can do just about anything. And Hunter dies in the beginning, that is what should happen, none of this o wait never mind he has been trapped on an island without food and such for sixtenn years! come on, like that would EVER happen. Moira is just a little twit with no real emotions. Plus all that happened in the book was WAY predictable. Over all if you liked the series and thought of your own happy ending on what happened with Morgan and Hunter, dont read this book. It is a disappointment.