Publishers Weekly, May 19th, 1997
Marion Zimmer Bradley. Viking, $24.95 (412p) ISBN 0-670-85783-1
Bradley's The Mists of Avalon (1983) remains one of the best loved and best-selling--reworkings of the Arthurian cycle. Now Bradley has written a splendid prequel (which she also links to her novel The Forest House), in which she traces the High Priestess of Avalori and the sacrificial Sacred King through three cycles of reincarnation and mythic destiny. In the first century of Christianity, Lady Calllean raises her orphaned grandson, Gawen (whose mother was killed in The Forest House). Initiated as the Pendragon and Sacred Kin...
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