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Summary: This is one of the best Darkover books I've read yet
Review: "Traitor's Sun" continues the Darkover series. The story picks up several years after the end of "The Shadow Matrix". Several of the characters from the earlier books return,but the main focus of this book is on the new characters: Marguerida Alton's son Domenic, and some completely new or mostly unknown characters. This novel is anything but predictable.I won't tell you what happens so I don't spoil it for you,but READ IT! Tell you this much: it focuses less on the psi/magicaspect of Darkover, and on a different problem that becomes DEADLY serious. A problem called the Terran Federation of Planets. For my money, this is one of Bradley's best novels so far.She ROCKS!
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Summary: nice chapter in the "marja comes home saga"
Review: enjoyed the book (as always with darkover) -- didn't enjoy the typos. "hernes" was in the first 10 pages!!! more darkover (are you listening marion?) & reprint walter breen's guide to darkover (it was a little before my time).
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Summary: Engaging, interesting story lines
Review: Even though it does run a little slow, this book is much more engaging than its prequel (The Shadow Matrix). It was a real page turner, I'm looking forward to the next entry. It seems that Marion Zimmer Bradley is writing about Darkover in Chronological order now. (Which is nice when one waits for the next release.) What I don't like is how history keeps repeating itself a little too much. The Hastur heirs all seem to go through the same struggle, over and over again. Gets a little tiresome, even though new aspects are added.
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Summary: One of my least favorite Darkover novels
Review: First let me say that I LOVE the Darkover novels, and own almost all of them. I plan on re-reading them many times over the years.
Over the past few months I have re-read all of the books that I own in their chronological order, and I have found that this novel is probably my least favorite of the group.
The plot seems to drag somewhat in this book, and leans a little too much toward the political aspects of the Darkover-Terran relationship for my taste. I prefer books like Sharra's Exile, The Forbidden Tower or Stormqueen which focus a little more on the telepathic aspects of the culture.
If you love the Darkover books and have read Exile's Song and The Shadow Matrix you will definitely want to read this one, but if you are just starting out, try one of the other Darkover books first.
All in all, a good book with some great moments, but not my favorite of the series.
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Summary: MZB's best yet!!!
Review: i absolutly love marrion zimmer bradley! she is my favorite author, and my inspiration! i've been waiting for this book to be released since i read "exile's song" & "shadow's matrix" (both excellent books.) this story takes place 15 years since "shadow's matrix". it continues the story of the struggle between the darkovans and the terrans. i think that when MZB began the whole darkover series, she saw this book as climax of the terran/darkovan conflict. the best thing about this book is that everything about it is either a shock or a surprise. but the story of marguerida alton-hastur and mikhal hastur and the rest of darkover does not end with this story.... (if you want to talk darkover or valdemar just e-mail me!)
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Summary: Great Story, But Not True Darkovan
Review: I closed the book with two thoughts. It was a good story. I thought the characters were well developed and gave interesting twists to the expected (ie: Giz Alderan's "transformation of character"). The action was good and I was glad to see the Federation take a tumble and see what they had become. That said, it was not a novel of Darkover. There was no mention of a matrix until well into the 300's page wise. There was a mention of the Compact to call Terranan blasters "cowards' weapons" but not o n c e did anyone bring up the Compact and the Ages of Chaos when it came time to fight the "final battle". What set the Darkovans above, if you will, the Federation, was alway their morality. And even if a reader did not agree with it (ie: letting babies die when Federation medicines would let them live) at least it was consistant; and consistant throughout the series. When did the Alton Gift become the ability to communicate 2 ways without going into the Overworld? No one entered that beauiful place of gray shadows where movement was as fast as thought. I will miss Ms. Bradley. I hope, if the Darkover series continues, and I believe it should, another writer is found who knows how to get around on that Bloody planet.
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Summary: Borrow this one from the library
Review: I don't know who to blame this one on: MZB herself or her co-author. If the faults and flaws in this book are Herself's doing, then it's time she packed it in. One of the primary rules for good writing is to show what your characters are doing, not to have them tell you what happened. This occurs over and over again, with more dry, unnecessary and flat-out BORING discussion of the political upheavals in the Federation than even a diehard Darkover fan should be asked to endure. And why is there not one male character in this story that I could respect? The women were almost as bad, alternately whining and threatening the men around them. I didn't give a damn about what happened to anyone in this story, and that was hard to take. MZB has given me, personally, a few minutes of her time and a much-cherished letter, urging me to find what I needed from my life, not what anyone else thought I needed, and fight for it with everything I had. Even though the characters in "Traitor's Sun" talk a great deal about the necessity of such personal integrity, none of them show any signs of possessing it. I'll stick with the earlier books, in which those who occupied them did -- and faced the consequences without bemoaning the fate that had brought them there.
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Summary: wheres the paperback version?
Review: I don`t like buying/carrying/storing hardcovers. Why do we have to wait so long for the paperback versions? I am eagerly awaiting the paperback version of the only Darkover novel I have not yet read.
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Summary: I AM WAITING FOR THE PAPERBACK COVER
Review: I have all the Darkover saga in paperbacks, so I am obliged to wait for the paperback issue of this book but it is very hard. I would like to know if somebody has draw a genealogical tree of the main characters, it would have been very hepfull.
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Summary: Bland but enjoyable
Review: I have been devouring the Darkover books since I came upon them four years ago and enjoying them greatly. I was a third of the way through Traitor's Sun before I found out that Marion had died and was truly upset. I love the world she has crafted over the last thirty years and the thought of no more Darkover books is awful. Traitor's Sun is competent but seems kind of lifeless, more of a boy's adventure book than the usual more mature fare I expect from her. It's still a good book, but try some of the those invloving the Sharra matrix and remember just how exciting and intriguing the world of Darkover can be.
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