An undeniably sweet-natured book, especially by this decade's standards for heroic fantasy. Positively utopian: seriously contaminated, from the present-day writer's point of view, by visions of a world where some people, as regards sexual orientation and preference, get a built-in fair shake unavailable in our reality -- a world born of the writer's never-answered question to her long-lost mom after a bedtime story, many years previously: "Why can't the prince rescue the prince?"
I love this so much, being a princess who prefers to rescue princesses myself. I remember finding the books as a teenager and thinking how real everyone in the books seemed. No stereotypes, no saccharine "high fantasy" speech, just solid characters.
Thank you so much for creating them!
Shadow's readers will almost certainly figure it all out if they have the inclination. I'm sure there may be people for whom the resolution in question isn't edgy, bloody or retributive enough. The only possible response to such folks is: Tough. Go get your own. Mine worked for me.
You too, huh? :(
I can kinda get this, too, I think. When I was a walking open wound I wanted nothing more than to hop a plane to CA, find the bastard and toss him down a flight of stairs. Then I got therapy. LOTS of therapy. And now I feel like - it happened, yes I lost, I hurt, but I healed, and I think things happened the way they needed to, I wouldn't be who I am now without that experience (cliche, but true) and the things he did - well, they caught up with him in other ways. He created his own Hell, so I don't need to send him there myself.
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Date: 2011-10-24 03:34 pm (UTC)I love this so much, being a princess who prefers to rescue princesses myself. I remember finding the books as a teenager and thinking how real everyone in the books seemed. No stereotypes, no saccharine "high fantasy" speech, just solid characters.
Thank you so much for creating them!
Shadow's readers will almost certainly figure it all out if they have the inclination. I'm sure there may be people for whom the resolution in question isn't edgy, bloody or retributive enough. The only possible response to such folks is: Tough. Go get your own. Mine worked for me.
You too, huh? :(
I can kinda get this, too, I think. When I was a walking open wound I wanted nothing more than to hop a plane to CA, find the bastard and toss him down a flight of stairs. Then I got therapy. LOTS of therapy. And now I feel like - it happened, yes I lost, I hurt, but I healed, and I think things happened the way they needed to, I wouldn't be who I am now without that experience (cliche, but true) and the things he did - well, they caught up with him in other ways. He created his own Hell, so I don't need to send him there myself.