Daughter of Elysium - An Elysium Cycle Novel (Paperback)

from CBrachyrhynchos

Daughter of Elysium is an interesting novel set in the same universe as Door into Ocean and Brain Plague. The central characters, The Windclans, are credible as a family unit in a genre that tends to push family relationships to the margins. Much of the novel works on the contrast among the vario...

from comixminx

Was happy to see that it followed up on A Door Into Ocean more closely than I'd expected, as well as inventing a whole new society and set of worlds.

from ecclescake

Liked it, but not as much as "A Door Into Ocean." Favorite stuff: detailed descriptions of the different cultures on different worlds. I really enjoyed the matriarchal Clicker culture; it was interesting to read about the reversed gender roles and realize just how much I've absorbed American gend...

from dwhapax

Did a lot of skimming with this one. I found the main characters's descriptions and monikers bothersome, with their native Americanish names and rather simplistic gender role reversals. A brief description of one of their society members having black, kinky hair that bushed out discomfortingly in...

from greeniezona

Not exactly a sequel, Daughter of Elysium is the second book in the Elysium cycle, following Door Into Ocean. Like Door, Daughter takes place on Shora, but many centuries later. Several new "races" of humans are introduced: the beautiful and long-lived but detached Elysians, to the Goddess-worshi...