The Pillars of the World by Anne Bishop

I loved Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels Trilogy so much. But it took me a long time to pick up The Pillars of the World, because it just didn’t sound terribly appealing… And it wasn’t appealing in the least… Anne Bishop is a great writer, but you couldn’t tell by reading The Pillars of the World. It had none of the dark, edgy feeling of her Black Jewels novels and feels like a cop out, as well as a whack over the head with strong feminist beliefs and the Wiccan religion. Read the rest.