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Book ReviewWinds Of Fate
Yes another Valdemar novel, and this time featuring an old friend, Skif. The queen's daughter is searching for a mage to teach her magic and so save the kingdom. That is the basic story; but the plot is quite involved and contains Companions' conspiracy, an ancient talking sword with too much attidute and quite a bit of action both physcially and emotionally.
I liked the book, but I didn't like what happened between the princess (Elspath) and Skif. He was pushed too much to the corner, in my opinion. Elspath is bitchy and Skif is a jerk, at least from her point of view. The last few novels from Lackey all featured dominant female characters to the point that males are portraied as either evil or idiots for most of the time. And the plot is mostly about women defeating men. It's started funny, but it's getting tiring. I hope that the next book, Winds of Change , will be better balanced.
Again, I read it in nearly one seating (there are some advantages to being on reading vacation :-) ).
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