Mortification Scale: 3 Tomato Faces
- 1 TF for SciFi/Fantasy
- 2nd and 3rd TF for seriously embarrassing cover
- 4th TF not given because it is MZB!
- 1st book in a series of three books within the Darkover series that examines the role of women in society
- Fantastic details - an entire world that the reader is dropped into
- Thought provoking dissertation of societal ills
Margali was raised on Darkover, but was born a Terran. She is forever caught between two worlds never feeling at home in either. When her ex-husband/childhood friend, Peter, is kidnapped by bandits, Margali goes in search of him, setting off a chain of events that will end up resolving her internal conflict. Rather than being part of one or the other, she will be a bridge between her two worlds. Of course, all of this is realized over the course of an exciting adventure into the mountains and off to the Ardais Domaine for Midwinter; through the swearing of the Oath of the Renunciates and the beginning of the realization of what sisterhood really means.
Excellent! I highly recommend this trilogy to anyone with any interest in gender studies or anyone looking for a good read.
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