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Minstrel
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Your villainess makes Sitara look sane.
I am kind of going for insane with this one. Of course, this is also the story that has a pothead elf who's one of the good guys.
O.O
Your villainess makes Sitara look sane.
Tantalizing. As in "I'm going to dance around this subject and then pan to the curtains". A la Guy Gavriel Kay starting a chapter of The Lions of Al-Rassan with a sentence about Jehane really enjoying sex, and proceeding to not include any sex, "offscreen" or otherwise, in the entire chapter. I'm not saying I want to read lots of sex or anything, but I get irritated when an author uses the possibility of future sex as an attention-grabbing opening and then fails to deliver.
The other side of that coin is GRRM, who can get several pages into a sex scene before the reader even knows whether it's consensual. *shudder* Dude should stick to writing about food.
One of the many reasons Martin's work is... not for me.
Wait, if she's a Fae, how can she touch an iron poker?
She protected her hand with a cloak so it wouldn't burn her.
I might have gone too far in implying they weren't realistic. Perhaps his books are just too bleak for my tastes.
I keep telling you guys, everyone is going to die. Everyone.
I think Martin's women are flawed, interesting, and powerful in many different ways. If you only read the first book and give up half-way through, then you're not going to see how the character arc works for them.