- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Legend paperbacks (16 April 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099167107
- ISBN-13: 978-0099167105
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,220,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
Marion Zimmer Bradley is reknowned for her ability to create real-life, complex characters, and this book holds no exception. Tracing the life paths of two defiant and independant women in a world where female independance is seriously frowned upon, Shattered Chains is a journey of self discovery and makes one question "conventional thinking". The complex attitudes and lifestyle of Darkover have formed fan clubs world-wide, and any fan of Bradley's will fall in love with Magdalen Lorne and Jaelle n'ha Melora as they have her hundreds of other characters in classics such as Mists of Avalon and The Firebrand.
Format:Paperback
This is the first book in the intriguing Renunciates trilogy MZB wrote from 1976 up until 1984. It introduces the two central characters, Jaelle and Magda/Margali, along with some background for the former, and also marks the first lengthy description of the Dry-Towns (at least in terms of Darkovan chronology). The trilogy as a whole is MZB's most concerted effort to explore the issues of feminism and female oppression in Darkover up until that point, though she had previously engaged in single volumes such as Hawkmistress! and Two to Conquer. The book also marks the first extended narrative inclusion of Terrans within their own milieu - Two to Conquer had previously featured a displaced Terran, but now we can see Terrans operating from their own spaceport. A less pleasant aspect of the plot is that it appears to engender a rather derogatory parallel to Islam, as the women of the Dry-Towns are clearly situated within an Arabic civilisation, but kept literally in chains. While MZB may not have intended the comparison, it is an inevitable one - the Dry-Towners are shown are irredeemably chauvinistic, brutally enslaving the women of Dry-Town society to forever wear chains in symbolic acceptance of their submission. Nevertheless, the way in which the book manages to weave together three disparate sections into a cohesive whole is enjoyable, and it performs its job of setting up the next two books admirably. Note that if you want to follow the Darkovan chronology, you'll need to read The Spell Sword and The Forbidden Tower before you move on to Thendara House.
Format:Hardcover
A good fun feminist fantasy book, though best as a prequel to Bradley's "Thendara House". Some of Bradley's most engaging heroines; definitely one of the best in the series.
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