Rating: 
Summary: Wonderfully done!
Review: Well-researched, well-written and excellently plotted -- this book has it all. As reviewer MJ Lowe says, you need not know Xena to enjoy every bit of this book.Which begs the question, doesn't it -- when the writing is this good and the setting so luscious, why must one woman be tall, older and dark-haired and the other young, naive and blonde? Maas's writing is good enough that Xena and Gabrielle were only starting points. She takes these traits and makes them over in two new, refreshing characters. Like Lori Lake, LJ Maas doesn't need the Xena crutch. It's fun for the Xena fans but I would love to see the wings really stretch for this writer. With writing and imagination like this I bet Maas would do just fine with two redheads of the same age and height.
Rating:
Summary: One of the best of the Xena ubers!
Review: With this wonderful, erotic lesbian thriller (with a more palatable outcome than the admittedly excellent "The Blue Place") as well as her more mainstream and poignantly romantic novel "None So Blind," Maas, a great online fanfic author of classic and "Conqueror" Xena tales, has written two of the best and most memorable "uber" (Xena and Gabrielle by any other name would still be just as infinitely fascinating) novels. Can't wait for a sequel to "Meridio"! And "None So Blind" is just as good as Rita Mae's possible closet uber "Alma Mater."
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