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    The Forbidden Tower
    The Forbidden Tower
    The Forbidden Tower
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Forbidden Tower

    Written by Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Narrated by Max Bellmore

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    A Darkover series volume, by the author of The Mists of Avalon, presents four challengers to the planet's sacred traditions--ruling caste member Damon, his betrothed, Earthman Andrew, and Andrew's betrothed, a Keeper of the Sacred Tower.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 15, 2018
    ISBN9781501970917
    The Forbidden Tower
    Author

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Marion Zimmer Bradley is the creator of the popular Darkover universe, as well as the critically acclaimed author of the bestselling ‘The Mists of Avalon’ and its sequel, ‘The Forest House’. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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    • 5/5
      I'm a fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley, but my affection for her rests not on the Avalon books, which I didn't care for, but her Darkover series. Darkover is a "lost colony" of Earth that falls back into a medieval society. Ruled by a psychically gifted aristocracy, after centuries it's rediscovered by a star-spanning high-tech human federation, giving the series a feel of both science fiction and fantasy. Most books in the series examine this culture clash and this book is no exception. This is a sequel to The Spell Sword, which focused on a Terran, Andrew Carr, who at the end of that book married Callista, a member of the Comyn aristocracy. The Darkover series as a whole features strong female characters, but it has enough swashbuckling adventure to draw the male of the species, and indeed this series was recommended to me by a guy (when we were in high school!)Although some books are loosely connected, having characters in common, they were written to be read independently and were written out of sequence. This makes it difficult without a guide to know what story to start with. The Spell Sword should probably be read before this book, but that short novel was written just as MZB was coming into her own as a writer, and The Forbidden Tower, which received a Hugo nomination for best novel, is a much stronger and complex book. Andrew, Callista, Ellemir, and especially Damon, are my favorite characters in the entire series. This also is the most credible book involving polyamory I've read in science fiction, dealing with many of the problems I'd see in such a relationship fairly realistically--more so to my mind than say, Robert Heinlein who also explored the subject. And this is one of the few books in the Darkover series, along with The Shattered Chain and Stormqueen!, where I can still really recall specific scenes and conversations in the book to mind even decades after my read. So this stands as one of the best books in the series.
    • 5/5
      This is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, but I guess I'm finally going to have to admit to it being one of my favourite books. There is something about Marion Zimmer Bradley's characters that makes them easy to care about and difficult to leave.