Rediscovery

Darkover, Book 11

De: Mercedes Lackey, Marion Zimmer-Bradley

Narrado por: Christa Lewis

Leonie Hastur has a high degree of laran, the telepathic power of the Comyn caste, and wants to be Keeper of Arilinn Tower, which will give her as much power as her twin brother Lorill, Heir to Hastur. But she has a premonition that something strange and disturbing will come from the sky and change their world forever. She is correct. Ysaye Barnett loves life on shipboard and would happily stay right there, with her beloved computers, forever. Her best friend Elizabeth Mackintosh, a musician and anthropologist, and her fiance, linguist David Lorne, want to marry and have children, which means they need a planet they can settle on and make their lives' work. They are very excited about the new planet, especially when they realize that it's a lost Terran colony. As five young lives and their very different cultures meet, all of them will be changed by the encounter.

©1993 Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mercedes Lackey (P)2015 Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust

enjoyed it

good performance of a book I read many years ago. I enjoyed listening to it. I'd like more performance by this reader.

An excellent book!

An excellent book that fills in much of the background on many of the main characters!

I may be a fangirl

The Darkover series was my introduction to scifi/fantasy for older audiences, and I was thrilled to see that some of the books had made it onto audible. Rediscovery is a later book in the series, but it is written in such a way that you do not need to have foreknowledge. The narration is spot on, and helps to bring Darkover to life.

Awful narrator

The narrator didn’t even try for different tones between men and women, she emphasized words seemingly at random, she made them all sound like chipper little kids. Her narration pretty much ruined the story for me

Disappointing

I remember loving MZB books as a teen, so I wanted to revisit some. This one is certainly not worth it.

The author constantly explains the characters’ feelings, sometimes stating the same thing up to three times - overall a cringeworthy extent.

Side characters also lack any depth with internal monologues that make little sense (I’m almost wondering whether the author had similar figures in her life that she wished would have reacted that submissively).

Also while I’m all up for modern feminism, this book repeats over and over the message “don’t get tied down in marriage, instead follow your solo dreams because it’ll be worth more”. Again, feels like the author is trying far too hard to get a message across.

One of the main characters also seems a bit too obsessive with her love/adoration for her brother - reeks of some building up incest.

Lastly, I also didn’t enjoy the voice actress performance, it was too often over the top and slightly annoying.

Returned the title after about hours.