- Hardcover: 435 pages
- Publisher: DAW Books; First Printing Signed by Author edition (27 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0886777054
- ISBN-13: 978-0886777050
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,296,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Haunted by fleeting, nightmarish memories of her childhood on Darkover, Margaret Alton flees her home with her uncommunicative, brooding father to take a job as assistant to musicologist Ivor Davidson, a career that takes her back to Darkover and a terrifying confrontation with the past.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was first introduced to the world of darkover in "Sharra's Exile" and have been addicted ever since. When "Exiles Song" first came out I was intrigued. And I discovered it was about Lew Altons daughter! Through her discovery of her home world to her discovery of her uncle Rafe Scott and finally her discovery of her awakening telpathic gift. The battle with Ashsarra Alton to the discovery of her shadow matrix. This is a wonderful book to start the darkover series. Form start to finish I could hardly put it down. Margaret Alton's journey begins in Thendara when her mentor and friend Ivor Davidson dies. In her despair she meets her uncle Rafe Scott. This is the begining of her true journey. Deciding to finish the work she was sent to darkover to do(study music) Margaret sets off for the Kilgard Hills with Rafella a free amazon. She ends up at Armida and meets her cousin Mihkail Hastur-Lanart. Within the hold of threshold sickness Margaret is confronted with many obsticals from Asharra Alton, the arrival of her shadow matrix, her estranged father Lew, her uncle Gabrielle trying to marry her off to his chauvanistic son, her hiership to the Alton Domain, her strange and extremely powerful Alton LARAN, and her growing love for Mihkail. However, "Exile's Song's" real conclucion is in the "Shadow Matrix". I would recomend "Exile's Song" to any long or first time readers of darkover. If you would like yo contact me about more darkover or any novels drop me an email.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
just read exile's song in one sitting. it was nice to revisit darkover but was left unsatisfied. reminded me a bit too much of hawkmistress. why do most her strong female characters [which is a lot of the charm of mzb] always end up having to go to a tower and then we hear no more of them? though maybe we will hear more of marguerida alton!
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Well written and a good addition to the Darkover series
One of the best of the post Marion Zimmer Bradley books in the Darkover series, and a fantastic telling of Comyn and their powers.
Published 21 months ago by Kevin Bransbury-jones
A Fantastic Book!!!!!
Actually this is the first of the Darkovan books I had read. It was just sitting there so I decided on reading it. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 1999
Hasn't this been done before
I've read a lot of the Darkover novels and this will probably be the last one. I actually love Margret Alton's character, which is why I give it 3 stars, but it just seems like... Read more
Published on 25 Jan 1999
I started with this book and was hooked.
This was the first MZB novel I ever read. After finishing it, I wanted to know more about Darkover. I was hooked. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 1998
Better than I expected
I resisted buying Exile's Song expecting to be disappointed by a sequel in a series that already had to many books, but was pleasantly surprised. Read more
Published on 7 May 1997
Half a book is better than none
The first half of this book was interesting, tight, suspenseful, and entertaining. The rest of it was, well, scattered. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 1997
Enjoyable but needs work
I believe that this book was good but the most exciting stuff came 1/3 of the way until the end. The information concerning her mentor was important but did not need to take up... Read more
Published on 3 Feb 1997
The worst Darkover novel I've ever read
Marion gives credit to a "co-author," one of the Friends of Darkover writers, whose "voice" seems to me to be very strong in this book, as well as amateurish. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 1997
The best Darkover novel I have ever read.
A story of corage, and defeating yourself, breaking your
own limits. The great following that Sharra's Exile deserved.
This one the mandatory for Darkover fans.
own limits. The great following that Sharra's Exile deserved.
This one the mandatory for Darkover fans.
Published on 24 Nov 1996
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