A review by magentabyfive
The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley

1.0

I don't get this author. The first book was interesting enough, but I always feel like I'm reading the same thing. There is a strong female on the cover, who turns out to be someone swept by fate, who learns or knows and is beholden to the goddess. Who watches and makes a little effort here and there as men usurp their world and take over and destroy the rights of females, and this is always set in some pseudo historical period I guess to say this is how we lost power. I have no idea. I don't mind tragedies, but she always comes off as whiny, and setting up basically all men as evil or corrupt and wrong minded and putting women down and anyone who isn't "strong" wants all women "weak" and the plot is thin as it stretches years and has "women problems" and in the end is just not my cup of tea and I need to stop reading her hoping for something different. Because the plot is the same, the message is the same, and the characters are never interesting enough to distract from this.