Kudos to you for being able to finish LKH's latest. I gave up several books ago when I couldn't get past the first chapter. *sigh*

MZB. Huh. I completely missed that someone was writing new Darkover. I may need to check them out whilst at the beach.

RH. I was almost completely unimpressed with the first book of this series -- silly me. I kept waiting for something to happen! -- and so haven't read the next two. And as someone said above, great world-building, great characters, great plots... but she leaves me depressed nearly every time. Except maybe for the end of the Live Traders trilogy. What's not to love about the restoration of dragons to the world? *g*