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Herrin der Falken by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Romilly uses her power to communicate with and control animals to aid the battle to depose the usurper of the throne of Darkover.
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Title:Herrin der Falken
Authors:Marion Zimmer Bradley
Info:Genehmigte Sonderausg. - Augsburg : Weltbild, [2006]. - 411 S. - Pb. (Darkover-Zyklus ; 3 : Zeitalter des Chaos ; [2]) (Weltbild Sammler-Editionen)
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Tags:fantasy, Spannung, Darkover 03

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Hawkmistress! by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1982)

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This is the back story of Romilly MacAran who made a substantial appearance in Zandru's Forge. She is a remarkable character and the first close up of a girl (she is 15 when she arrives at the Sister House) woman who goes on to become a Sister of the Sword/Renunciate. I enjoyed this book a lot. ( )
  Karen74Leigh | Sep 23, 2019 |
I would class this novel is a Young Adult -- Coming of Age type. Not all of the Darkover novels are of this type. ( )
  KirkLowery | Apr 20, 2016 |
A young girl leaves her home because her father wants to marry her off. These books always start off slow and then pick up at the end. Better that way than the other. ( )
  stuart10er | Sep 27, 2013 |
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 focus on the clash between the two cultures. This is one of the exceptions, set before the time of rediscovery during the era of the "Hundred Kingdoms." Romilly, a member of a minor branch of the Comyn aristocracy, is gifted with the ability to communicate with animals. (Thus the title, "Hawkmistress.")

Although some of the Darkover books are loosely connected, having characters in common, this one can be read completely independently. The series was written out of sequence, and that can make it hard to know where to start. That's particularly so given MZB didn't come into her own as a writer until the mid-seventies, and books published earlier, even though they may fall later chronologically, are much weaker books. Hawkmistress!, however, was published in 1982, when MZB's powers were at their height. However, even though Hawkmistress! is a very entertaining book, with a winning heroine, I wouldn't count it among the best of the Darkover books. (Although it's very, very far from one of the weakest--it's one of the better ones.) However, I'd suggest the (1979 version) of The Bloody Sun or The Spell Sword and its sequel The Forbidden Tower or The Shattered Chain (my own introduction) or Heritage of Hastur as better starting places. ( )
  LisaMaria_C | Oct 22, 2012 |
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C'est dans ce troisième volume du cycle qu'apparaissent les thématiques féministes de Marion Zimmer Bradley. Les femmes ténébranes n'ont qu'une place minime et secondaire : elles sont tout juste bonnes à faire des femmes au foyer. Il est hors de question qu'elles puissent occuper d'autres places et développer leurs talents. En révolte contre cette société misogyne, Romilly MacAran rejoint la Sororité de l'épée, une association de guerrières qui regroupe des femmes en rupture de tradition, bien décidées à vivre pleinement leur vie et à s'épanouir à l'abri des hommes. Ce féminisme militant ne tombe cependant ni dans l'excès ni dans le manichéisme. Les personnages sont particulièrement nuancés et complexes, faisant bien ressortir toutes les ambiguïtés et parfois les impasses d'un féminisme trop militant.

L'homosexualité, qu'elle soit féminine ou masculine, est présente en toile de fond. Plusieurs personnages affichent plus ou moins leurs préférences, là encore sans tomber dans la caricature. Cette thématique se retrouve dans plusieurs autres volumes du cycle, de manière naturelle et plus ou moins diffuse. Ainsi la coutume des « bredins », les frères jurés, recèle beaucoup d'ambiguïtés qui ne sont pas toujours levées.

La Belle Fauconnière est un roman équilibré qui se lit avec beaucoup de plaisir. L'intrigue se déroule sans incohérences et les personnages sont riches et nuancés. La place et l'ampleur des pouvoirs psi sont beaucoup mieux définis que dans le volume précédent : nous ne sommes déjà plus dans l'ambiance « fantasy » de Reine des orages.
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    ROMILLY

"Sunstar, too, seemed flooded with the restlessness of the four moons and their light ... now she was deep in rapport with the stallion ... This was not new to her, she had somehow sensed this before in bygone summers, but never with the full strength of her awakened laran, her suddenly wakeful body ... the scent of the grass, the flooding of life through her veins till she was all one great aching tension ... sweet scents with a tang of what seemed to her shard and doubled senses a tang of musk and summer flowers and something she did not even recognize, so deeply was it part of herself, profoundly sexual, sweeping away barriers of thought and understanding ... at one and the same time she was with the great stallion, and she was Romilly ...."
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She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of the hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. she had the MacAran Gift, the rare laran that conferred mastery over hawk and horse.

There was war in the lands of Darkover for this was the Age of the Hundred Kingdoms when usurpers took the throne and the true king wandered in disguise with a price on his head. Romilly wanted none of all this, but there were those who shared her talents - the men and women of the Towers. And for them, Romilly was the key.

Whether male-garbed or beast--minded, she was also human. And duty to her own true kind pointed her to the ultimate decision ...
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