I have read some of her earlier books and liked them, although never a big fan, but while I tried to read Mists of Avalon a couple of times that story I could never get. Well, I have never been that fond of those stories which take some classic villains and then try to turn them into heroes anyway... But yes, it was such a disappointment to find what the woman was actually like.

But in some ways the worst part of the whole life history of Bradley and Breen to me is that they seem both have been twisted by what was done to THEM when they were children. Moira was able to cut that chain, maybe because she, as her rebellion, turned to Christianity, but the abusers of both of her parents were Christians, even if they seem to have completely missed the point of the religion while clinging to the outer form only, and what they did to their children drove them away from that religion to neopaganism and magic practices in their worst form.

But way too often the whole damn thing repeats because abuse of children can create such thoroughly broken, twisted individuals that they then, in their turn, often become abusers themselves.