The Temple at Landfall

This book was a real surprise. It starts out as a slow, mediocre fantasy and quickly turns into a fast-paced, action-packed, lesbian science fantasy dystopia. Yeah. I found it gripping and very well written. It's about a planet of all women who have developed psychic gene splicing by special gifted women called imprinters. They also do psychic cloning of animals and psychic healing. A strange religion has grown up around the imprinters, a sisterhood, which was reminiscent of my Catholic school experience with a few evil nuns. There are battles with snow lions, conflict between factions of soldiers, and cynical heretics to add adventure, excitement, and humor to the book. You just have to get past the first twenty or thirty pages for it to get exciting. This book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. It's part of a series of five books and there are several ways you can order your reading of the books. This one is the first published.

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