Once upon a time I decided to continue rereading Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover series. It has taken almost 2.5 years to do it, but I’m finally done.
Or at least as done as I intend to be. I did not read every single book. I skipped all the anthologies, most of the co-written works, and all of the ones written by someone other than MZB. I also skipped three non-anthology, MZB-penned books—The World Wreckers, The Forbidden Tower, and Two to Conquer—for the simple reason that I remembered disliking them the first time around, and I thought my opinion unlikely to have changed. I reread Hawkmistress! in 2014 but did not review it (I gave it a B+, which was just good enough for me to keep it as part of my Darkover set). I also read Exile’s Song (Grade: B), The Shadow Matrix (Grade: C+), and Traitor’s Sun (Grade: B), and then gave them away.
And that’s it. I’m glad that I decided to read these books. Not only was it fun to revisit a favorite fictional land, but it also felt good to dispose of some books that I did not need.