Rating: 
Summary: Okay..but not as 'good as it gets'....
Review: Marion Zimmer Bradley is a wonderful author, but I'm sorry to say that she doesn't show the story development that she usually has. Her character development is still great, but not good enough for 4 or 5 stars.The story of Margaret Alton is quite interesting. She goes to the planet of her birth and learns that she is a telepath with the "Alton Gift," among other gifts. The back-of-the-book-synopsis says that there's a 'trap that was set for her centuries before her birth,' and that was what interested me in the book. But the 'trap' is the gift. She learns that she has these things about half-way through the book, and then you are looking forward to this 'trap,' but that is the trap. The characters are neat, but as for the story, it is weaker than it could have been. Nice try Ms Bradley...I'm still looking forward to other Darkover Novels (I've heard that this one isn't the best one of the bunch...)
Rating:
Summary: Okay..but not as 'good as it gets'....
Review: Marion Zimmer Bradley is a wonderful author, but I'm sorry to say that she doesn't show the story development that she usually has. Her character development is still great, but not good enough for 4 or 5 stars. The story of Margaret Alton is quite interesting. She goes to the planet of her birth and learns that she is a telepath with the "Alton Gift," among other gifts. The back-of-the-book-synopsis says that there's a 'trap that was set for her centuries before her birth,' and that was what interested me in the book. But the 'trap' is the gift. She learns that she has these things about half-way through the book, and then you are looking forward to this 'trap,' but that is the trap. The characters are neat, but as for the story, it is weaker than it could have been. Nice try Ms Bradley...I'm still looking forward to other Darkover Novels (I've heard that this one isn't the best one of the bunch...)
Rating: 
Summary: Not one of her best...
Review: The best thing I can say about this book is that it's about Darkover. Other than that I found it over-long -- ponderous, in fact -- overloaded with explanation upon explanation about Darkover society that should be telegraphed by now as it is in the other Darkover books. Obvious in plot, syrupy, peopled with characters that take sudden questionable leaps of logic and emotion... It comes out as a bad romance novel that quits in mid-plot. Perhaps MZB is just so famous that her editors don't dare make suggestions any more? She can do much, much better than this. Go get The Shattered Chain or The Bloody Sun instead.
Rating:
Summary: A little dissappointing...
Review: The book wasn't that bad...although a little overdone. The thing that upset me the most was that the whole Regis & Danilo relationship that was so carefully built before was shattered. Regis got married, and Danilo just gets to stand in the background, smiling? That bothered me so much, the rest of the book seemed dry. Although I would still reccomend it to others, especially those that haven't read Darkover before.
Rating: 
Summary: I wish I could give it 6.....
Review: The first Darkover book I've read, and one of the best Sci-fi/Fantasy books I've ever read. I now plan to read the rest of the series. MZB did a good job of writing the main character.
Rating:
Summary: Half a book is better than none
Review: The first half of this book was interesting, tight, suspenseful, and entertaining. The rest of it was, well, scattered. Conflict and plot points were introduced, only to be totally ignored by the so-called "ending." Perhaps the publisher was kicking and screaming for this one, and the author needed to finish it before it was actually finished. Still, visiting Darkover and so many of my old friends was quite pleasurable; and if MZB ever takes it into her mind to finish this novel, I will get my hands on that book as fast as I can
Rating: 
Summary: a great first book read
Review: this is the first book of the darkover series i have read and i found it to be great. i read it in a day or so and true the plot does beg to be enhanced but i found the idea of this strong willed heiress who takes nothing in this male dominated societ intriguing. too many of the other people who read this got hung up on geneology and such things from the other book and simply couldn't enjoy the book. the only thing that troubled me was references to other,earlier books but i know that was to be expected. also people say that the "confrintation" in the middle of the book led to an aimless anticlimax which is completely untrue. you see the heroine struggle to find balance and try not to kill anyone with her "gifts" and the end made me run out for the next book. i admit that this is not a book for hardcore darkover fans but a very good book for someone new to the series.
Rating:
Summary: I wish I could give it six....
Review: This is the first Darkover book I've read, and I think that the rest of the series will turn out to be very promising indeed. MZB wrote the character very well, and you could really understand it. When she died, the series probably ended too, a great loss to the Sci-fi/fantasy world. If any of her relatives are reading this, you have my condolences.
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Summary: Excellent Book -- Continues the Darkover tradition.
Review: This story continues the storyline started in The Heritage of Hastur. The main character is very believable. Lew's daughter (the main Character) steals your heart with the problem she is faced with and how she overcomes it. I can't wait for the next Sequel
Rating:
Summary: I started with this book and was hooked.
Review: This was the first MZB novel I ever read. After finishing it, I wanted to know more about Darkover. I was hooked. Because I had never read any of her books before I didn't notice any of the inconsistancies that everyone says are throughout the novel. It was great as a first book because it encompases everything about Darkover. It made me want to go out and buy all the other books in the series, just to learn about all the families of Darkover. I give the book an 8. It was great.
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