I thought this was a brilliant book

Ra lochlann is an unobtrusive narrator but in depicting the defeat of matriarchy doesnt take refuge behind a stance of authorial neutrality covertly to endorse the brutalities of invading patrirachy

I was drawn into this from the first and extremely impressed by the wealth of background knowledge of ancient knossos and mycenae

The story of the main characters their passions loyalties and fates is set against the background of the concerted attack on matriarchy in bronze age greece as typified by the ambitions of poisedon worshipping mycenae on the wealth and sea power of ancient crete the bastion of goddess worship