by Marion Zimmer Bradley
This was actually really disappointing for me. I expected more from Marion Zimmer Bradley, but this book just didn't deliver. It wasn't horrible, but I wasn't thrilled with it, either. The story was fairly slow for the first half, roughly, and barely picked up towards the end. It was fairly predicta...
Bradley's "Witch" series is not as good as her Darkover novels. Part of the problem is that most of the books follow the same plot. Girl discovers she has powers, girl sleeps with men, and girl reaches a conclusion about her powers and about her men. This book is one of the worse because the cent...
While I wasn't expecting great things from this book, I was hoping for at least a smooth read. Unfortunately, the foreshadowing was heavy-handed verging on ham-handed, and the fact that Ms. Bradley apparently felt the need to find (and share with the reader) places for quite a few minor characters ...
Truth Jourdemayne has always hated her father, although she doesn't remember him. Thorne Blackburn was a celebrated occultist and near-cult leader of the 60's, but one of his rituals ended in the death of Truth's mother, and the disappearance of Thorne himself (one assumes, to escape murder charges)...