Title: One of the best in the genre
Review: Judith Tarr does an outstanding job in creating two vastly different, but equally believable cultures. Both are interesting, with fully realized characters, and when they finally meet, the clash is exciting, rather than disturbing, uncomfortable or boring (at least one of which describes most of the other horseman vs. goddess worship books I've read). I was surprised that the author chose to make her feminist cluture a true matriarchy, rather than the usual egalitarian societies usually portrayed in these books. While I would have liked to have seen more agency and spirituality from Danu and the other men of the cities--for example, what kind of rituals did they conduct while the women worshiped at the full moon?--Tarr managed to create male characters who were strong and thoughtful, not abused, degraded and twisted, like their female counterparts among the horsemen.
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