Rating: 
Summary: Best in the Trilogy
Review: This was the first Darkover novel I read and since then I've read probably 6 or 8 others. I think I like this one the best, although Hawkmistress and Stormqueen come in close. The conflict between the two societies is enhanced in this novel because of the culture shock Jaelle and Magda go through in each others opposite world.
I would recommend this to everyone.
Rating:
Summary: Two different worlds ...
Review: Two different worlds have conflicting problems. One of the major ones is that the two worlds are trapped on one, together.Two cultures, one is male-dominated and another is ruled by technology. The cultures continue to fight for dominance and in the middle of it two women from different cultures find themselves working together ... Jaelle, now married to the Terran Peter Haldane, is trying to fit into the life of a Terran. Her life has changed drastically. She has to eat the same things that Terrans do, dress and talk like them and also get used to their lifestyle (which is nothing like her own). Two of her major problems are; one, she can't understand how the medics, who are men, can be so impersonal about women. The major issue for her though is ... her husband is supposed to stand up for her, fight for her, and think for her. What's with that?!?!?! Magda is living with some Renunicates now, widening the way her mind think and making new friends. She finds that she can think and speak for herself. She also finds that some people, men and women alike don't support the Renunicates and their way of thinking, while others agree with Renunicate ways. After a time the two women have to put together the information they learned as well as their differences, combining them and using them together may be the only way that they will survive ...
Rating:
Summary: Two different worlds ...
Review: Two different worlds have conflicting problems. One of the major ones is that the two worlds are trapped on one, together. Two cultures, one is male-dominated and another is ruled by technology. The cultures continue to fight for dominance and in the middle of it two women from different cultures find themselves working together ... Jaelle, now married to the Terran Peter Haldane, is trying to fit into the life of a Terran. Her life has changed drastically. She has to eat the same things that Terrans do, dress and talk like them and also get used to their lifestyle (which is nothing like her own). Two of her major problems are; one, she can't understand how the medics, who are men, can be so impersonal about women. The major issue for her though is ... her husband is supposed to stand up for her, fight for her, and think for her. What's with that?!?!?! Magda is living with some Renunicates now, widening the way her mind think and making new friends. She finds that she can think and speak for herself. She also finds that some people, men and women alike don't support the Renunicates and their way of thinking, while others agree with Renunicate ways. After a time the two women have to put together the information they learned as well as their differences, combining them and using them together may be the only way that they will survive ...
Rating:
Summary: If this is your first Darkover book...It won't be your last!
Review: Years have passed since I read Thendara House for the first time.
I have read it at least five times since. The essence of humanity
is revealed from two perspectives; Technological vs. pre-industrial civilization. I find myself abhoring the trappings of "progress"
and the subsequent belief that people must move forward at all costs.
I, like Magda, quickly learned in Thendara House that a person can be incapable of understanding the subtleties of human behavior and responses,
but more importantly, come to understand that there are as many ways to live as there are people living.
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