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Terrilian #5
The Warrior Victorious
Terril tries to escape from the planet New Dawn, where the government has implimented a forced breeding program in hopes of creating advanced empaths
415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1988
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Sharon Green
149 books109 followersBorn and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Attended New York University and graduated with a B.A. in 1963. Married in 1963, had three sons, divorced in 1976. Raised the sons, Andy, Brian and Curtis, alone in New Jersey. Worked for AT&T as a shareowner correspondent, then as an all-around assistant in a construction company, then sold bar steel for an import firm. Left that job as assistant sales manager. I've been writing full time since 1984.
Hobbies: knitting, crocheting, Tae Kwon Do, fencing, archery, shooting, jigsaw puzzles, logic problems, math problems, not cooking.
Don't do my own research, since if I did I'd stay with that and never get any writing done. I usually can finish a novel of about 120,000 words in about three months.
Hobbies: knitting, crocheting, Tae Kwon Do, fencing, archery, shooting, jigsaw puzzles, logic problems, math problems, not cooking.
Don't do my own research, since if I did I'd stay with that and never get any writing done. I usually can finish a novel of about 120,000 words in about three months.
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November 15, 2025
FINALLY finished this book and series!!! YAY!!!
There was some really good character development in this book and Terry is an interesting main character. BUT Some elements of this story just have me screaming! The abuse suffered by this character over five books is just wild. I am really surprised to be honest that she has not gone mad at this point!
The ending is what I thought would be the outcome. Do I agree with it? I'm really not sure! I think I almost would have preferred for Terry to end up with Amazonian women isolated from all men for a good long time!
I don't agree with this author on a lot of the content in these books but she does know how to write a good story and a sympathetic FMC.
So I feel really mixed about this series and personally am glad to have finished it!
There was some really good character development in this book and Terry is an interesting main character. BUT Some elements of this story just have me screaming! The abuse suffered by this character over five books is just wild. I am really surprised to be honest that she has not gone mad at this point!
The ending is what I thought would be the outcome. Do I agree with it? I'm really not sure! I think I almost would have preferred for Terry to end up with Amazonian women isolated from all men for a good long time!
I don't agree with this author on a lot of the content in these books but she does know how to write a good story and a sympathetic FMC.
So I feel really mixed about this series and personally am glad to have finished it!
January 10, 2013
Note to science fiction fans who read this review: I read this in the '80s from a Science Fiction standpoint. This time I am evaluating it from an BDSM Romance standpoint. And this is spoilery so be careful if you haven’t read this yet.
So, to recap where we left off: Terrilian led the assault on the Chama of Vediaster and she and her Rebel Alliance were successful. Only then she found out that by beating the Chama she had become the Chama, Tammad tells she can no longer be his, She is so distraught that when she is grabbed by her former Slave Master she almost gives in, and then she rides into the woods to kill herself only to be spirited away by agents of the Amalgamation.
Of course, she doesn’t remember any of this because when she wakes up on New Dawn her memory of everything going back to when she was woken up by an unenveloping quadriwagon has been erased and she has been conditioned to serve as breeding stock for a forthcoming Army of Empaths. As you might expect, she is quickly unconditioned, shown off, punished and claimed by a Blonde-Haired Blue Eyed Alpha who plans to use her to achieve his own personal goals. Like that has never happened to her before.
After some forced Submission and a Torture Session with a Sadist, she eventually escapes, has a run-in with some Rejects, and eventually is rescued by the man who set most of these wheels in motion.
And that’s only the first half of the book. I had vaguely remembered her being held at the facility but had completely forgotten just how bad it was. I didn’t remember much of all after that.
I never mind watching the guy suffer a bit of rejection so I wasn’t bothered a bit that Tammad had to go through some. Karma is a wonderful thing. Frankly I thought the final explanation as to what happened was a little too Deus Ex Machina. And I really wanted her parents to hear the whole story start to finish - all the rapes, beatings, abandonments, etc. - but maybe it was for the best that they and her brothers didn’t. It was amazing that Len actually figured out he had a spine.
Speak of Lenham... the explanation for Len’s behavior from the Real to the Liberty Scene to the Hamarda Rape Scene to the Palace Rape Scene and all the various and sundry other events was that he was trying to boost her ability and torturing her was the best way to accomplish it. Okay. And the fact that he had a way to phone home but let Terry suffer for we don't know how long in the grasp of the Savages and the Hamarda needed a bit more explaining.
I really liked how she never actually gave up the Chama title. I think that could prove handy in the future. I know she isn't interested in power, but I would think the Chama might want to go say hello to her old friend Kednin at some point - preferably with a sizable force of w'wenda with her.
"Indeed are you changed from the woman I knew, changed in a manner I had not thought would please me. No longer do you accuse me of all manner of odd doings, no longer do you seek to disobey me in all things, no longer do you deny the love you feel. And I, I am fully as changed as you, for no longer do I feel your obedience necessary to my happiness, and no longer do I wish to discount what council you give me as foolishness. Much pain did we both need to suffer to accomplish these ends, yet have we finally and in truth accomplished them." - Only fair to point out that not only did she suffer most of the pain, but he inflicted a good deal of it.
"I don't care for the idea of being spanked again." - It was switching for the first two books and then Tammad gave up and called them beatings like she did after that. And it wasn't until this book that she was actually spanked. So, technically, even though he had beaten her many times he had only spanked her once.
So the final question that is often raised in the reviews: Why did she accept so much? Was it Stockholm Syndrome or what?
My theory is that it was the Mental Conditioning that the Amalgamation had put her through along with her isolation. She really was very unhappy - staying totally aloof from everyone around her. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t have some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion regarding giving control to whoever spoke the activation word to her - I have a feeling that Murdock knows more than he is saying on that point. So it isn’t a great answer but it does explain some things.
Of course there were a few dangling plot threads at the end: The Real and Terry’s friend who had been enslaved by it? Where did Farian and her pet null come from? Why did Hestin seem to know more than he was saying? Why did Hestin remind her of the slave? Did Sandy ever get the quadriwagon to envelop?...
So, to recap where we left off: Terrilian led the assault on the Chama of Vediaster and she and her Rebel Alliance were successful. Only then she found out that by beating the Chama she had become the Chama, Tammad tells she can no longer be his, She is so distraught that when she is grabbed by her former Slave Master she almost gives in, and then she rides into the woods to kill herself only to be spirited away by agents of the Amalgamation.
Of course, she doesn’t remember any of this because when she wakes up on New Dawn her memory of everything going back to when she was woken up by an unenveloping quadriwagon has been erased and she has been conditioned to serve as breeding stock for a forthcoming Army of Empaths. As you might expect, she is quickly unconditioned, shown off, punished and claimed by a Blonde-Haired Blue Eyed Alpha who plans to use her to achieve his own personal goals. Like that has never happened to her before.
After some forced Submission and a Torture Session with a Sadist, she eventually escapes, has a run-in with some Rejects, and eventually is rescued by the man who set most of these wheels in motion.
And that’s only the first half of the book. I had vaguely remembered her being held at the facility but had completely forgotten just how bad it was. I didn’t remember much of all after that.
I never mind watching the guy suffer a bit of rejection so I wasn’t bothered a bit that Tammad had to go through some. Karma is a wonderful thing. Frankly I thought the final explanation as to what happened was a little too Deus Ex Machina. And I really wanted her parents to hear the whole story start to finish - all the rapes, beatings, abandonments, etc. - but maybe it was for the best that they and her brothers didn’t. It was amazing that Len actually figured out he had a spine.
Speak of Lenham... the explanation for Len’s behavior from the Real to the Liberty Scene to the Hamarda Rape Scene to the Palace Rape Scene and all the various and sundry other events was that he was trying to boost her ability and torturing her was the best way to accomplish it. Okay. And the fact that he had a way to phone home but let Terry suffer for we don't know how long in the grasp of the Savages and the Hamarda needed a bit more explaining.
I really liked how she never actually gave up the Chama title. I think that could prove handy in the future. I know she isn't interested in power, but I would think the Chama might want to go say hello to her old friend Kednin at some point - preferably with a sizable force of w'wenda with her.
"Indeed are you changed from the woman I knew, changed in a manner I had not thought would please me. No longer do you accuse me of all manner of odd doings, no longer do you seek to disobey me in all things, no longer do you deny the love you feel. And I, I am fully as changed as you, for no longer do I feel your obedience necessary to my happiness, and no longer do I wish to discount what council you give me as foolishness. Much pain did we both need to suffer to accomplish these ends, yet have we finally and in truth accomplished them." - Only fair to point out that not only did she suffer most of the pain, but he inflicted a good deal of it.
"I don't care for the idea of being spanked again." - It was switching for the first two books and then Tammad gave up and called them beatings like she did after that. And it wasn't until this book that she was actually spanked. So, technically, even though he had beaten her many times he had only spanked her once.
So the final question that is often raised in the reviews: Why did she accept so much? Was it Stockholm Syndrome or what?
My theory is that it was the Mental Conditioning that the Amalgamation had put her through along with her isolation. She really was very unhappy - staying totally aloof from everyone around her. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t have some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion regarding giving control to whoever spoke the activation word to her - I have a feeling that Murdock knows more than he is saying on that point. So it isn’t a great answer but it does explain some things.
Of course there were a few dangling plot threads at the end: The Real and Terry’s friend who had been enslaved by it? Where did Farian and her pet null come from? Why did Hestin seem to know more than he was saying? Why did Hestin remind her of the slave? Did Sandy ever get the quadriwagon to envelop?...
July 12, 2019
I found this book hard going and was glad to see it finished.
I had read the previous volumes in this series years ago and I quickly remembered why I held off on reading this end chapter. Sharon Green is a curious author in that she has a tendency to over describe matters leading to a potentially leaden narrative, I read somewhere that this series was intended as some sort of feminist coounter blast to the divisive Gor novels of John Norman. If that is true then I fear her wish to make a point outweighed her wish to tell a story.
The main problem however is with her heroine the wonderfully monikered Terrilian Reya. Terri is a Prime (a psychically potent individual) who gets sold by her boss to a He-Man esque barbarian on a planet where male might makes right. The two argue, misudnderstand each other, fall in love, split up and repeat ad infinitum. Terri who undergoes a lot of nasty demeaning treatment including several enslavements and multiple sexual assaults at the hands of various psychos and bullies throughout the series slowly develops from self pitying doormat to badass. The progression is poorly handled though and this book where she is doped up and attempted to be used as a hypnotised breeding machine for a group of bad guys who apparently were always around (but were never hinted at in the previous books) is a series low for nastiness. Terri's actions until the very end portray her as an arrogant, almost delusional brat with a suicide wish. She is hardly easy to like and her refusal to trust anybody while in some ways understandable is full on paranoia.
I am glad I have finished the series but I doubt I shall revisit this chapter of it.
I had read the previous volumes in this series years ago and I quickly remembered why I held off on reading this end chapter. Sharon Green is a curious author in that she has a tendency to over describe matters leading to a potentially leaden narrative, I read somewhere that this series was intended as some sort of feminist coounter blast to the divisive Gor novels of John Norman. If that is true then I fear her wish to make a point outweighed her wish to tell a story.
The main problem however is with her heroine the wonderfully monikered Terrilian Reya. Terri is a Prime (a psychically potent individual) who gets sold by her boss to a He-Man esque barbarian on a planet where male might makes right. The two argue, misudnderstand each other, fall in love, split up and repeat ad infinitum. Terri who undergoes a lot of nasty demeaning treatment including several enslavements and multiple sexual assaults at the hands of various psychos and bullies throughout the series slowly develops from self pitying doormat to badass. The progression is poorly handled though and this book where she is doped up and attempted to be used as a hypnotised breeding machine for a group of bad guys who apparently were always around (but were never hinted at in the previous books) is a series low for nastiness. Terri's actions until the very end portray her as an arrogant, almost delusional brat with a suicide wish. She is hardly easy to like and her refusal to trust anybody while in some ways understandable is full on paranoia.
I am glad I have finished the series but I doubt I shall revisit this chapter of it.
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December 25, 2015Series ends with a Bang
Terry ends up on the planet New Dawn in the hands of the Empaths true enemies, Rathmore and the Central Government. As usual the villains plan on taking over the Amalgamation and further enslaving the Empaths. Satisfying end to a series filled with the personal and social development of Terry and her abilities. This last book see her becoming a competent responsible adult that can finally hold her own. Sexual situations are not graphically described but the content is exploring themes of non-consentual sex, abuse, and D/s. Definitely for mature readers.
The Mind Warriors Series follows this book, continuing after the fall of New Dawn and following the empath female warrior, Jilin, who ends up on Rimilia. Tammad and Terry will make a short reappearance in this series also.
Terry ends up on the planet New Dawn in the hands of the Empaths true enemies, Rathmore and the Central Government. As usual the villains plan on taking over the Amalgamation and further enslaving the Empaths. Satisfying end to a series filled with the personal and social development of Terry and her abilities. This last book see her becoming a competent responsible adult that can finally hold her own. Sexual situations are not graphically described but the content is exploring themes of non-consentual sex, abuse, and D/s. Definitely for mature readers.
The Mind Warriors Series follows this book, continuing after the fall of New Dawn and following the empath female warrior, Jilin, who ends up on Rimilia. Tammad and Terry will make a short reappearance in this series also.
January 8, 2011
I read this so long ago. It was one of my first ones I've read which involved sexual slavery in a non-con way. It disturbed me on several levels because I was aroused yet felt it was wrong. I wonder what I would think of it today after reading so much taboo BDSM. I'd probably just need a little "me" time.
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July 6, 2009If you liked the Terrilian Series, check out the Direct-to-eBook sequel series "Mind Warriors" at http://www.sharon-green.net/adventure... as well as the individual books listed here on Goodreads. It continues the plot from where this book ends.
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