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dragonlady7) wrote2017-01-07 01:59 pm
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The Wheel Of The Infinite is probably not anywhere near as interesting as what you’re reading now in terms of satisfying fantasy things– it’s really well-constructed, but it’s a oneshot and it’s mostly action, so you just get hints at it all. It’s mostly really cool because the main character is a dark-skinned older woman– I don’t know that her age is specified, but it’s eventually revealed that she has an adult son, and not like, a young adult son– and as part of her Epic Quest she’s on by herself, she accidentally rescues a (blond, green-eyed) barbarian, and it turns out that his prior line of work was as a nobleman’s bodyguard before he got banished, so he hardcore latches onto her and winds up as her sidekick. And she tries to get rid of him but he won’t go, so she winds up taking him as a lover, and it’s just great because he’s clearly, like, twenty, and she’s gotta be fifty, and there’s all kinds of angst about other things but that part’s not anything anyone’s worried about.
And it’s just a minor character detail, but she can see that he’s got holes where he used to have earrings; when he was banished, he lost all his honor, and so clearly took those earrings out himself because he no longer merited them. We get very little of his POV, but at some point the main character has a little extra money so she casually buys him earrings and gives them to him, and he’s obviously in total shock about it and it’s clearly got some deep significance she knows she doesn’t get, but she figures she gets the gist, and sure enough, for the rest of the book he’s wearing her earrings.
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The Wheel Of The Infinite is probably not anywhere near as interesting as what you’re reading now in terms of satisfying fantasy things– it’s really well-constructed, but it’s a oneshot and it’s mostly action, so you just get hints at it all. It’s mostly really cool because the main character is a dark-skinned older woman– I don’t know that her age is specified, but it’s eventually revealed that she has an adult son, and not like, a young adult son– and as part of her Epic Quest she’s on by herself, she accidentally rescues a (blond, green-eyed) barbarian, and it turns out that his prior line of work was as a nobleman’s bodyguard before he got banished, so he hardcore latches onto her and winds up as her sidekick. And she tries to get rid of him but he won’t go, so she winds up taking him as a lover, and it’s just great because he’s clearly, like, twenty, and she’s gotta be fifty, and there’s all kinds of angst about other things but that part’s not anything anyone’s worried about.
And it’s just a minor character detail, but she can see that he’s got holes where he used to have earrings; when he was banished, he lost all his honor, and so clearly took those earrings out himself because he no longer merited them. We get very little of his POV, but at some point the main character has a little extra money so she casually buys him earrings and gives them to him, and he’s obviously in total shock about it and it’s clearly got some deep significance she knows she doesn’t get, but she figures she gets the gist, and sure enough, for the rest of the book he’s wearing her earrings.