What is the author's style in The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley?

The Forest House is told from a third-person limited point of view. The reader follows the narrative from the perspective of one character at a time. However, this character shifts as the story unfolds. In the prologue and epilogue, the story is told through Caillean at her new House on Afallon. Still, throughout the body of the novel, the point of view shifts from Eilan to Gaius. From time to time, the reader is privy to the thoughts of other characters - Julia, for example, and her desire to have a male son. For the most part, though, Eilan and Gaius provide the framework through which the story is told, and the reader sees the events from their points of view. Eilan's point of view includes her many visions, dreams, and even the experience of her death, as she watches her body being burned and floats above the human scene. The novel could have been told from the first-person point of view, changing with each scene depending on the character, allowing for a similar feeling of proximity to the characters. However, such a mystical story benefits from the relative objectivity of the third person point of view, as this presents the events—even the most mystical, like Eilan's visions—as fact, and not simply the imaginings of one deluded person.