Witch Hill (from Ex Libris)

7/1/05—Witch Hill by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I liked Mists of Avalon, so at some point, I gathered a few more by MZB. Well, it may very well be that Mists of Avalon was the high point in MZB’s writing career. While I read it in one sitting, Witch Hill was a bit fluffy (of course, I guess being able to read it in one sitting might, itself, point to that fact). It appears that MZB wanted to write erotica and so crammed as many sex scenes as possible into under three hundred pages and then tried desperately to form a plot around it. She confuses the Great Rite with “promiscuity” and Witchcraft of the most Ancient Ways with Devil Worship, even while, at the same time, she’s trying to draw a dividing line among them. Still, there was enough forward action that it kept me reading. I noticed, however, that there wasn’t much of a dénouement after the climax—the story almost immediately wrapped up after the main action, rather like the author had spent all her time and energy in the buildup and simply wanted to get the story over with.