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    <body><![CDATA[There was absolutely nothing good about this book that I could find. Paxson's link-up of MZB's Atlantis and Avalon series was embarrassingly bad. Bad writing, bad characterization, and to top it off, the text of the edition I read was full of errors! Maybe if someone had bothered to edit this, he or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50391472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a huge fan of &quot;Mists of Avalon&quot;. This is a prequal to the Mists story. I think it's okay; it centers around the fall of the mythical city of Atlantis and how some Atlanteans escaped and sailed off to England to build Stonehenge and develop what eventually leads to modern Goddess-worshi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75431372">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was OK.  In light of the fact that I only bought it because I loved &quot;The Mists of Avalon&quot;, it was a terrible disappointment.  The dialogue didn't seem to fit the time period and seemed the same from person to person, despite personality, nationality or caste.  The character names...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63623875">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting explanation to how the standing stones of Stonehenge got there.  I think that Diana Paxson did a very remarkable job keeping the same flavor of all of the Marion Zimmer Bradley Avalon series of books.<br/><br/>I also did not know that there was a reincarnation theme running through ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38653352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another in the Mists of Avalon series, this novel takes us the furthest back - to the ancestors who founded Avalon after escaping the fall of Atlantis. I think this novel follows some of the characters we met in Bradley's Fall of Atlantis, but I liked this book better than Fall. As I said in my revi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10678801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I went into this book knowing Bradley did not write it, and I could feel that throughout the book. I had a hard time bonding with it, but Paxson did a good job of explaining how the coloney arrived. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a very interesting verion of what happened to Atlantis and how Stonehenge came to be.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm over trying to recreate my Mists of Avalon experience........it is impossible.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am willing to read just about anything but I just couldn't get into this. Maybe it's the time - too far back even for me - or perhaps the characters. I think I'll just move on to my next book. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very different but in a good way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[great to see begining of avalon.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Marion Zimmer Bradley's other books (Avalon series), but I had a hard time keeping my interest with this book and didn't even finish to the end.  I think the change in authors made a big difference.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very heavy in the name department. Some of the characters have multiple names / similar names and I thought it detracted from the actual story. It was pretty good *non committal shrug*]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another prequel to the Mists of Avalon and obviosly not written by MZB (comes after Fall of Atlantis).<br/><br/>Very plot-driven story explains the connection between Atlantis and Avalon.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff.  I loved reading Paxson's view of what Stonehenge was built for, and what happened to Atlantis.  Some might find it too dramatic and feminine.]]></body>
    
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