posted
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!
Posts: 438 | Registered: May 2006
| IP: Logged |
posted
I think it was CT (or at least I've seen her recommend it before). It's definitely a good read.
Posts: 16059 | Registered: Aug 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
Posts: 763 | Registered: Aug 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
Posts: 763 | Registered: Aug 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
Posts: 1751 | Registered: Jun 1999
| IP: Logged |
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.
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
