Brief book review.

[matt_doyle]

Yesterday I read a fantasy novel - the start of a series - called The Warded Man. It was excellent, readable, and enjoyable, though as usual I was irritated by the cliche of having the one main female character as the Healer, when the main male character got to be the Badass Warrior. There's a secondary male character who is much less badass than the Healer, so that was sort of okay until the Healer, who'd been saving herself for marriage, was gang-raped by bandits offscreen, not as a means of character development for anyone, but to put her in a position where the Badass Warrior needed to rescue her.


I mean, FUCKING A, SERIOUSLY?

Has anybody read this book, and would you care to discuss it? I will NOT be getting over that plot point, but up until that stage it had a great many virtues and cool ideas worth talking about. I honestly don't know if I'll continue with the series when the next book comes out.

Comments

[lesstraveled.livejournal.com]

Your HTML is screwy in the OP. Can't say about the novel but you've piqued my curiosity enough to place a hold at the library... oddly enough they've shelved it under the Horror genre?

[matt_doyle]

Fixed!

Hunh. I mean, it does have demons eatiing people, but it's in no way horror.