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March 27 - 10 downloads March 28 - 4 downloads March 29 - 4 downloads March 30 - 56 downloads* *On the 30th 'Shardfall' appeared on digitalbooktoday.com, advertised on the Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books List, till 4/2. This is a free service for perma-free Kindle books: 4 days' listing...

I'm not about to post every review I get on the forums, but the previous one hurt so much that I want to give you this one, too. It is quite the opposite :).

I understand. My condolences, Mindfire.

I agree with Tom in this. Also, if anyone wants to discuss this further, please do it in another thread. 'Lioness' suffers enough controversy without that.

I realize that, and on this subject got some good advice from my beta readers. I changed some things and explained some things, but in the end this is how I see it. NB: I'm talking about peer sex, not teen-adult. Sex happens :). I am firmly convinced that openness about sex and good...

Your story sounds OK to me, but I'm probably the last one to judge. I am a product of the '60s/'70s (at least intellectually, not practicing) and as we had neither right-wing politics nor televangelists to halt it, our mores are still more relaxed. I do remember reading that the age of consent...

'My' Kell girls start their sexual life early as well. Maud at eighteen had had already two lovers and Wemawee at sixteen wasn't a novice either. I keep to the legal limits as they apply to the Netherlands, and over here the age of sexual adulthood is 16. Between 12 and 16, children may have...

March 22 - 22 downloads March 23 - 27 downloads March 24 - 8 downloads March 25 - 8 downloads March 26 - 11 downloads I don't really know where they come from. It's not the book tour, for that one is about 'Lioness' and these are the free 'Shardfall' book. The book is still on page 1 of the...

@CM Yes, I took that in consideration. They do it by magic, and have all sorts of suppressor spells (I really didn't want Kell women with mustaches), of which a few were badly calculated. I haven't written it down that detailed, but I look at it again when I have Mindfire's comments, whether I...

You're quite welcome, CM. Besides, our outlooks are not dissimilar. Over here we are taught to treat everybody the same. Well, that is what I did in my book and see what comes of it :) But I'm glad we have a sensible discussion, and if it can help other people as well, all the better.

@Nimue: Based on your question I rewrote the part where Maud explains their sex-swap to Jurgis. Is this more acceptable? Later in the book, after Wemawee managed to teleport herself away, her lover Wargall joins Maud and the others. He wants to clear the name of his clan, and prove himself...

Because they got too much 'urges'. I see it as a body that makes too much testosterone and needs medication to keep the levels down. The women have sex whenever they please. All children are raised communal. There is no whispering, it's all open and above the board. And no, I don't really need...

That is encouraging! Dank je wel, Steer.

I'm not making snide remarks. Only to base a whole book evaluation upon a handful of excerpts meant to give a hint of the action and no more, serves no good. I'll wait till Mindfire is done reading and based on his advice and comments already made here I will decide whether to change pages and...

Darkwriter - You have the book, so you know what you say here is not what the book says. Did you read it? First, there is no diplomatic mission. The only mission was to fetch Jurgis out of Brisa, early in the book. After that it is all the MCs own adventure. Wemawee is no official...