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Conqueror's Child (Holdfast Chronicles) (Paperback)

by Suzy McKee Charnas (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; 1st Trade Pbk. Ed edition (28 Feb 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312869460
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312869465
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.1 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Alldera's rape-conceived daughter Sorrell grows up among the Riding Women until her bond with a fellow misfit leads her to a reunion with her mother, who is building a new society in the former men-cities, and her mother's rapists.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Fems have conquered their male masters -- what now?, 19 April 1999
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This review is from: The Conqueror's Child (Holdfast Chronicles, Bk IV) (Hardcover)
The Holdfast/Motherlines series reaches a triumphant conclusion with this fourth volume. Many authors might have ended with the third novel, THE FURIES, in which the Free Fems, with the help of the Riding Women, invade the Holdfast and overcome the men, their former masters. But the reversal of roles between masters and slaves is only the beginning. As the young heroine says in the epilogue of THE CONQUEROR'S CHILD, there are no real endings.

This final book focuses on the "next generation"; the warriors led by Alldera the Conqueror have won back their homeland, and now her followers must build a new society, where men and woman can live at peace together for the first time in centuries. The renegade male who returns from the wilderness to attack the female-ruled Holdfast proves to be an anachronism; so also, however, does Alldera, already in the process of growing into a legend. The major viewpoint character, Alldera's daughter Sorrel (NOT "adopted daughter"), flees the Grasslands for the Holdfast with a boy child she has taken under her protection. The narrative follows the structure of Dickens' BLEAK HOUSE and Bradley's HERITAGE OF HASTUR, alternating chapters told in the first person by Sorrel with third-person chapters focusing on various other characters, thus combining the advantages of both intimacy and breadth.

Given that men must be kept alive for breeding, must they remain forever prisoners or chattel? Can they ever be trusted? Can they learn to live with females as equals? Can both men and women forget old bitterness and hate? What will become of the new generation of male children? Ambiguous, multifaceted, lifelike characters work together toward answers. Even though there are no "real endings," Sorrel's epilogue ties up a number of loose ends to provide closure for the reader.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Violent end to a violent book series, 29 Aug 1999
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This review is from: The Conqueror's Child (Holdfast Chronicles, Bk IV) (Hardcover)
I have read all four books in the Holdfast Chronicles. I have sometimes wondered what the world would be like in a matriarchal society where women made most of the decisions. Would women be as violent and war-like as men have been throughout history? I doubt it! However, the women in Ms. Charnas post-holocaust world are surprisingly like their former (male) masters. I prefer the utopian world of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland". Neither worlds are particularly believable. But it is interesting to speculate.
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