[In Thendara House] Bradley has pulled together characters and plot elements from four or five previous stories and has turned out another intricate and richly detailed investigation of the roles of women and men on Darkover…. With none of the heavy-handedness of Bradley's "feminist" novel The Ruins of Isis, this is thought-provoking, dramatic, and engrossing.

Susan L. Nickerson, in a review of "Thendara House," in Library Journal, Vol. 108, No. 16, September 15, 1983, p. 1811.