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This is the first in a series of sword and sorcery novels featuring a female sword slinger named Raven. There are certainly elements of Red Sonja in this character, but I think she's generally more richly developed than has been done with the comic book Sonja character. The author, whose real name is not Richard Kirk, shows evidence of being influenced by Robert E. Howard, particularly his stories of Red Sonya, with a "Y" note, and of Dark Agnes. I've enjoyed the series.
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You find a few sentences where the author(s) have done the intermittent Yoda-backwards-talk affectation to make it sound grand or archaic, and then you stumble over sentences like "He had omitted remembrance of the dogs"(p. 13) and finally say to yourself: "Oh, it's going to be one of those."
Despite the assurances of the framing narrative and the foreshadowing of the rest--that she is some kind of powerful, untamed Chosen One with tragic backstory, details to be revealed in some sequel--you get ...more
Despite the assurances of the framing narrative and the foreshadowing of the rest--that she is some kind of powerful, untamed Chosen One with tragic backstory, details to be revealed in some sequel--you get ...more
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