Shallow Thoughts On SK: Beguilement

[ase]

My Deep and Meaningful post was derailed by norabombay and I trying to write science fiction epics on the phone again, so I will instead offer this thought: my second, scattershot dip into The Sharing Knife: Legacy is not reconciling me to the romance or Fawn; it's making me gesture emphatically at The Steerswoman's Road instead. I am not supposed to be annoyed at plucky Fawn, but oh, I really, really wish her selfish recklessness were not presented as courage.

Comments

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

Hmm... so I'm willing to give Cordelia a pass because selfishness for the sake of mother love (whether she should have felt mother love for an embryo is another question, and I've never quite forgiven Bujold for the authorial manipulation where they couldn't have any more children Because I Say So) is understandable to me, and I'm sympathetic.

Selfishness on Fawn's part for the sake of... uh? The arrogance that she might be able to do something other more experienced people can't? I'm not buying it.

I don't know, I think Cordelia would have figured out some way to die nobly or something. I kind of trust Cordelia to take care of herself, and I don't trust Fawn. Maybe that's what it comes down to.

(Which is kind of what ase was saying, but in different words.)

*goes to look for Kirstein*

[ase.livejournal.com]

Selfishness on Fawn's part for the sake of... uh? The arrogance that she might be able to do something other more experienced people can't? I'm not buying it.

Thank you for nailing what I would have spent a lot of time trying to say.

I am not going to guarantee that everyone will like the Steerswoman series as much as me, because it's pretty much a descriptive checklist of what I want in my sf/f reading, but I think it's interesting enough that other people will enjoy it too.

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

The arrogance that she might be able to do something other more experienced people can't

Sounds like a teenager to me!