[In "Two to Conquer"] Bard di Asturien is a brutal, insensitive man, a misogynist who believes all women wish to be mauled by him…. One day Bard murders a childhood friend and is exiled by the king. But with the death of the king Bard returns, and (in a particularly unconvincing bit of hocus-pocus) conjures up his double, Paul Harrell…. Paul and Bard eventually marry their true loves and actually live happily ever after. This installment in Bradley's popular Darkover series is mechanical, hokey and talky. Further burdened by a soap opera sensibility, the book only occasionally ascends to the level of pure and simple storytelling.

A review of "Two to Conquer," in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 217, No. 16, April 25, 1980, p. 78.