Will definitely have to track down some of these books after reading your review of them. It's hard to find good female heroes these days as you pointed out earlier in this review. I hate to be sounding like a pyscho fanboy, but how goes the writing on the latest AQ?
yowsa?! glad I wasn't up too late or else I would've said a few words myself, but I understand why though you didn't get a lot of time for writing. Hope the story progresses well and can't wait to read the first chapter when the book is finished!!!
Sounds interesting; I'll have to keep an eye out in the used bookstores.
Have you ever read Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet? The first two books are about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to train as a knight, the second two books are about her adventures as a night. She's written several other book sets in the same universe. The other one that's mostly action oriented is the Protector of the Small quartet, which is about the first girl to try for her knighthood openly after the events of the first quartet. They're all pretty easy reads since they're classified as young adult, but they're more engrossing than your average YA.
Seeing as how this seems to be filled to the brim with stuff I love, I'll have to get my hands on it.
After a little research, "The Disfavored Hero" seems to be a revised version of the first book, published later. However, considering I can buy the un-revised version for $30 less on Amazon, I think I'll just get that one. (seriously, you can get all 3 for like $15, total, on Amazon)
Just a small remark. Ms.Salmonson did not actually have to go as far as Japan and a historically dubious figure to find female warrior heroes. Marzia degli Ordelaffi, Joan of Arc, Queen Tamar of Georgia and Queen Isabel of Castile (who commanded the long and bitter war for Grenada, although she does not seem to have fought in person) were indubitably real persons, and were only the best known of a considerable number of fighting women of the period. Italy was particularly rich in them. As with many other things, the so-called Protestant Reformation was a disaster in this field as well: one of Luther's own goals was to get the girls "back" into the kitchen, to which Western civilization had never previously confined them.
Read the Golden Naginata years ago and remember liking it and telling myself I should find the others and read them. Never did. I may try to look again.
In a way your reaction to these books remind me of my own reaction to Margret Ball's Flameweaver/Changeweaver series.
And don't engage the troll. They regenerate a HP per round and keep coming. Or employ acid or fire on the offender.
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I hate to be sounding like a pyscho fanboy, but how goes the writing on the latest AQ?
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Have you ever read Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet? The first two books are about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to train as a knight, the second two books are about her adventures as a night. She's written several other book sets in the same universe. The other one that's mostly action oriented is the Protector of the Small quartet, which is about the first girl to try for her knighthood openly after the events of the first quartet. They're all pretty easy reads since they're classified as young adult, but they're more engrossing than your average YA.
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After a little research, "The Disfavored Hero" seems to be a revised version of the first book, published later. However, considering I can buy the un-revised version for $30 less on Amazon, I think I'll just get that one. (seriously, you can get all 3 for like $15, total, on Amazon)
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I'd like to apologize to you, Inverarity, for my part in fucking up this comment thread.
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In a way your reaction to these books remind me of my own reaction to Margret Ball's Flameweaver/Changeweaver series.
And don't engage the troll. They regenerate a HP per round and keep coming. Or employ acid or fire on the offender.
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