It was Bradley's misfortune that she wanted to write epics in a market designed for 150,000-word quickies. Thus was the Darkover saga broken up into mini-fantasies like this one -- okay for a diversion but nothing to get excited about. And yet it's also possible to see glimpses of the finely-crafted world she has built and to wish someone, somewhere, would collect all these stories in one or two volumes and present them to their best advantage.
