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The Shadow Matrix

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

About this title: After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited "Laran" gifts of the telepathic Comyn--the ruling families of Darkover. And even as she struggles to control her newfound powers, Margaret finds herself falling in love with the Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain, a man she has been forbidden to marry, for their alliance would irrevocably alter the power balance of their planet!

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Daw Books Date Published: 1997 ISBN-13: 9780886777432 ISBN: 0886777437

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goodreads rating 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Oct 29, 2009
By Anne, Lisle, IL

"This book is part of the Darkover series which is a story line of several novels and short stories. This particular book is part of the last section, after the Comnyn (Against the Terrans: The Second Age). I think there are about 44 novels in this series.

Darkover is a planet that was inhabited by humans from earth after a colonization space ship landed on the planet. They were unable to re-establish contact with Earth, and so settled on the planet. Telepathic and other special abilities came to them from mutation and interbreeding with the native's of the planet.

In this book #26, Margaret Alton has been struggling with her own identity, her laran powers - including complication of this power, and has also fallen in love with a man (Mikhail Lanart-Hastur), whom she is forbidden to marry because of political power balance.

I really enjoyed reading this book from beginning to end. The first part was interesting background on Mikhail, and I have always loved the way Bradley puts you into her world in full color, shape, sound, and smell. You can smell the air, and taste the surroundings.

I also love the two main characters and their descriptions as well as their struggles. It's a love story that involves two people fighting the fire to do what's best for all involved politically - yet one in which they must unite in the end to save the world.

Darkover books have always been favorites of mine, and though I do not read them always in order I am not completely lost reading each one separately. Her characters change frequently over several ages of the planet making her books in series always fresh and new.

This particular book is my favorite in this series for both her use and understanding of the two main characters Margaret and Mikhail, but also for the grandness of special powers used among the characters - while intertwined in a court style political arena.

I have read this book more than once and will read it again."

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goodreads rating 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Sep 20, 2009
By Chuck, Corpus Christi, TX

"This book is of as high quality as any other book in the Darkover canon; Margaret has moved to a Tower to try and learn to control her laran, her latent psychic power. In the tower, she has been largely immune to the political machinations that haunt her because of the birth she is unsaware of. She is heir of one of the most powerful kingdoms on the planet, and she is in love with a man who could conceivably inherit the throne. All this is complicated by the fact that the powers she has developed are unlike any every seen on Darover, and you have some great action, some great political intrigue, and a helluva good read."

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goodreads rating 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Oct 20, 2008
By Susan, Flagstaff, AZ

"Marguerida, Lew Alton's daughter, returns to Darkover and a series of events that has been literally paused in time for years begins to snowball--that's what happenned in Exile's Song. This is what came NEXT

She's still a whiny hero-ine, but what's more annoying is how absoutely perfect Mikhail is... oh well.

At least Romas provided a lovely cover."

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