Also, the wizards (male) are good, while the sorceresses (nearly all the female characters) are evil.
Ever read "The Swan Kingdom"? Don't. It has the same problem, reversed: men are corrupt and selfish tyrants who don't understand the land. Women are good, pure, sometimes nature-magic-endowed rightful rulers. The only exceptions are the villainess, who isn't human (so far as I could tell), and the heroine's Designated Love Interest, who you can tell is different because he's enough in touch with his feminine side to have a little magic, though it's not nearly as good as any woman's, of course.
...It annoyed me. >.>
I'd love to see you spork the Fifth Sorceress book. It sounds terrible. XD
Or maybe because women have become victimized by the Vatican into becoming synonymous with the Devil and therefor are automatically evil unless you worship the goddess.
Ugh. The Fifth Sorceress is a sexist piece of filth that doesn't deserve to be call a book; it's more like a 200+ page wank-rag for Robert Newcomb. It's not innovative at all, the female characters derive their power from having oodles and oodles of sex, the book reaches Terry Gookind-esque levels of BDSM action at some points, the main character is a Gary Stu on par with Eragon (sorceresses needing sex? Hello attractive main character!), the editor was asleep at the wheel when it comes to spelling/grammar, and it has a positively absurd tacked-on ending that leaves an out for an undoubtedly ridiculous sequel. Not to mention the homo-erotic subtext you could shake a hunk of meat at.
The Fifth Sorceress is the only book I have ever torn the cover from and thrown in the trash. I want my money back. >:|
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Ever read "The Swan Kingdom"? Don't. It has the same problem, reversed: men are corrupt and selfish tyrants who don't understand the land. Women are good, pure, sometimes nature-magic-endowed rightful rulers. The only exceptions are the villainess, who isn't human (so far as I could tell), and the heroine's Designated Love Interest, who you can tell is different because he's enough in touch with his feminine side to have a little magic, though it's not nearly as good as any woman's, of course.
...It annoyed me. >.>
I'd love to see you spork the Fifth Sorceress book. It sounds terrible. XD
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Apparently the sorceress have to have massive amounts of sex by raping victims because of a result of their magic or something... I'm not really sure.
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And it sounds like she did it a lot better than this guy, because people's gender didn't determine whether or not they were evil. =P
I never got that one.
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The Fifth Sorceress is the only book I have ever torn the cover from and thrown in the trash. I want my money back. >:|
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... I'm a sad, sad, sad individual... Sad, Sad, SAD, sad individual.
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I've seen genetic magic done before. And from the looks of it, done better, too. It can be interesting, but it's not novel.
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Genetic magic is hardly a novel thing.
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