Helpful Score: 2
Part Buffy-the-vampire-slayer, part the UK's "Hex" series, and other recognizable fan/cult themes dealing with a secret world under the skin of the one we knowingly inhabit. Ancient religion of moon worship, female power, and goddesses. For millenia, men have had the upper hand but now women are taking back the world. Secret societies, prophecies, destinies, inherited powers, suspicious or auspicious births and deaths, and the lives of a few ordinary people get caught up in the web of plots and counterplots, deceipt and treachery starting from their time together at a bizarre university. But it is really an accident that these particular people meet one another? Originally written in 1995 some of the shock value seems weak given many other more explicit films, tv, and books on similar themes since then but it is well written and fast paced with some good twists. I will look out for more by this author and wish I'd heard of her back in '95!
Helpful Score: 1
I realize that I'm in the minority...but I felt this was overwritten and wordy...and not in a good way. Ugh. Unreadable...author WAY too enchanted with the sound of her own voice. Trying to be super-descriptive and poetic...like classic Anne Rice, and somehow, failing miserably...at least for me.
