The Oathbound
ISBN:
9781439557570 (1439557578)
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
High Fantasy,
Adult,
Heroic Fantasy,
Sword And Sorcery
Series: Valdemar: Vows and Honor -3 (#1)
I don't know why I went into this book believing it to have a feminist vibe— albeit some 70s first wave feminism, complete with slut shamey, creepy fetichistic and essentialist vibes, as well as the good ol' rape, which the author uses and... Well, you know the rest.Warning : spoilers ahead.And boy ...
Trigger Warning: There are mentions of one of the characters rape that takes place in her past. Nothing too graphic, but there are no warnings for it in any of the blurbs I've seen. It's best for people to be prepared. Note: This books is a bunch of loosely connected short stories collected into one...
I can remember Tarma and Kethry's introduction in a short story in the Sword and Sorceress III anthology, and they stood out to me even then. This particular book is more a collection of those early short stories, rather than an integrated novel like the sequel Oathbreakers, but it's not any less of...
I'd forgotten just how choppy this book was. It shows its bones as a collection of loosely linked short stories too clearly; some sections have no connection to the plot's main through-line at all. Throw in lack of coherent worldbuilding, an obsession with rape (I'd remembered this as the Lackey wit...
Trigger Warning: There are mentions of one of the characters rape that takes place in her past. Nothing too graphic, but there are no warnings for it in any of the blurbs I've seen. It's best for people to be prepared. Note: This books is a bunch of loosely connected short stories collected into one...
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