This sequel to 'Golden witchbreed' came out four years after the original novel. Because of the way my TBR pile works, my copy disappeared into limbo, and resurfaced about ten years after I'd read the first novel. It is a tribute to Gentle's writing that I rapidly re-acquainted myself with the situation, characters and events without going back over the original novel. (We still traipsed all over that bloody map, though.) ( )

Lynne returns to Orthe under changed circumstances. As good a book as the first (Golden Witchbreed) provided you tape the last 50 or so pages shut. ( )

Amazing. A meditation on an author's love for a created world, and the necessity to destroy it to protect it from turning into an endless set of sequels. The one and only sequel to Golden Witchbreed. ( )