A while back, I posted a thread about my liking female protaganists for some reason, and it soon led to a bunch of recommendations, and I haven't been able to read hardly any of them, but I was able to find 'The Deed of Paksenarrion'. It was awesome!!!
I'm still kind of in shock.
Anyway, whoever recommended it, thank you very much!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I think it was CT (or at least I've seen her recommend it before). It's definitely a good read.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I liked those books as well. Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
I don't see what you see in it, honestly. Bog-standard fantasy, clunky writing. Female protagonist, quantity, one, quality, highly average.
Posted by Nathan2006 (Member # 9387) on :
Eh, to each his own.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 233) on :
Elizabeth Moon has a lot of other good books. All of them are a little clunky in some ways, as KOM mentions, but they're all pretty good. I find the archaic technology she uses for her FTL capable star ships particularly funny, myself.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I'm glad you liked it, Nathan2006. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I liked that it was more accurate about the different fighting styles, and I thought it was a fairly well realized world with very well defined characters.
It isn't one of my favorites, as I have only re-read it once or twice, but it was good.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 233) on :
Her fighting styles are based on pretty solid historical examples, but the rest of the milieu felt really patchy in the first couple of books. I think she does bring it together by the last book, but perhaps that's more because she developed a unified narrative that concentrated on a core conflict between two main powers. Apparent dualism always has a strong sense of thematic unity.
Posted by dean (Member # 167) on :
Yeah, I agree with Survivor. The beginning parts read as if Moon decided to write the quintessential sword-and-sorceress fantasy novel, but by the end it becomes more than that.
Posted by Nathan2006 (Member # 9387) on :
***** Possible Spoiler *****
I just wish that she and the Duke got together.
I know it would have been cliche, but I wouldn't have cared.
But that's my only quibble. It still had a happy ending, which is refreshing after reading the books in 'A Song of Ice and Fire', or 'American Gods'. Don't get me wrong, I love those books, but they're so dark. I have to space out my readings or else I find I'll get in a funk for a couple of days afterwards.
I did think that the books gradually got better, with the third being the best, and the first being the worst. But I don't willingling analyze books on the first read... On the re-read, maybe, but not the first. I find it inteferes with my reading experience.
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