This story was okay but you could really tell the author was doing an origin story for a series already well under way. I liked it for the most part. It was interesting but felt incomplete for the reasons I already stated. It was interesting to see the author attempting to deal with women's issues looking back on the beginning of the women's movement from 50 years on. On the whole the book felt very melancholy to me. ( )

Li esse livro anos atrás, quando surgiu a especulação de uma série de TV desta série de livros.
Em minha humilde opinião, as séries hoje em dia superam o cinema em importância na Cultura Pop, então fiquei pensando quando chegará a vez de fazer uma série sobre Darkover. Bom, organizando minha biblioteca neste Carnaval me deparei com as continuações de Darkover que eu ainda não li, não sei bem explicar o porquê. Como eu pretendo ler alguns clássicos, Darkover voltou a entrar em minha lista para (possível) leitura esse ano. Para quem não conhece ou só ouvir falar, a autora Marion Zimmer Bradley sugeriu que a série de livros fosse lida sem uma ordem exata, ou pelo menos na ordem em que os livros foram publicados, já que são livros de fantasia cuja origem é uma história de ficção científica. Enfim, o que interessa de fato é que as histórias existem, a gente não precisa implorar para publicarem. E pelo menos os dois livros que li eram bacanas. Fica a dica. ( )

I am reading this series from book one for the umpteenth time and it is as good this time around. ( )

It's very interesting to see some of these reviews claiming that the book is very sexist where is when I first read this book and the rest of the series around 1995 it seems pretty Progressive to me. I don't know if you reread would feel that Progressive now, but I still recall the entire darkover series as one of the best sets of books I read while I did not like Mists of Avalon. ( )

It's very interesting to see some of these reviews claiming that the book is very sexist where is when I first read this book and the rest of the series around 1995 it seems pretty Progressive to me. I don't know if you reread would feel that Progressive now, but I still recall the entire darkover series as one of the best sets of books I read while I did not like Mists of Avalon. ( )