A review by snd1101
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley

3.0

RECEIVED COURTESY OF LIBRARYTHING'S EARLY REVIEWER PROGRAM

While I was so pleased to get this anthology via Early Reviewers, I found it rather disappointing. I had read some of the more recent Darkover books, and it turns out the writing style had changed a lot between the time these stories were written and those other books were published—as happens.

I was, however, much less upset by the writing when I found out that this was not a new post-mortem collection of MZB short stories, but rather an ebook reprint of a collection written in 1993. Several of the stories had clear "feminist" leanings that made me really dislike a lot of the characters, and in others, the writing was too clunky to stand.

On the bright side, I whipped through the second half of the book. The short novella and the following shorts were much more entertaining than the first half.

Overall, it's probably worth reading if you're a big fan of Darkover; if you're a relative noob to Darkover like I am, I don't think it's quite as enjoyable as it could be.