Shallow Thoughts On SK: Beguilement

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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.

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[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

I thought Curse of Chalion was as good as Mirror Dance, and maybe (in a lot of ways) even as good as Memory (minus the Miles-bias at the end, where Haroche gets destroyed and Miles gets a shiny new job, which does kind of disturb me). But it's certainly a very different book.

I think she could do it in the Sharing Knife universe, but I'm increasingly less convinced she can do it with Dag, Fawn, or any of their compatriots.