[ SECRET POST #3414 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3414 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

While this is not a bad secret, I really would advise against using drop shadows on that size of font. It's hard to read.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, ditto.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the Valdemar books! Although I think it peaked a bit before the Collegium stuff of the last few years. I'm having a hard time getting through them, just a little too drawn out. But Vanyel and the Swordsword sisters and Kero and Herald Talia and all the mages... yeah, the old books are still my happy guilty pleasure.

[caerbannog]

By the sword secret!!!! It is one of my fave books, along with the Vows and Honour series! I'm glad the book made you so happy, I wish I had been able to read them when I was young and naive and doing all the wondering.

[(Anonymous)]

I've see people rag on books with that kind of theme but I'm really glad they exist. Especially for people like you.

[diet_poison]

That's awesome!

As an aside I'd posit that the reason many other books don't portray non-feminine female heroines as questioning or struggling is that many medieval fantasy worlds dispense with gender roles to an extent and present a society much more egalitarian than, say, Europe was 800 or so years ago - sometimes even moreso than Western nations now. I enjoy worlds that are set up like that. But I also enjoy the kind of story you're talking about, where people struggle with gender roles placed on them by society and learn to defy them.

[(Anonymous)]

Whoa, I used to really love those books. Nostalgia attack. By the Sword was one of my favourites among the Valdemar books.

[(Anonymous)]

I passed this on to Larry Dixon I hope you don't mind. He says "Thank you".

[(Anonymous)]

1) who are you 2) how do you have a direct line to the authors of this book

[(Anonymous)]

Mid list author and been friends with Misty and Larry for many many years.

[(Anonymous)]

Awww. I enjoyed this book for the same reasons, OP. But I agree, a big NOOOOOOOOOOO to drop shadow when you're using small font. It's very difficult to read.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so glad it helped you.

For me, I dealt with a lot of emotional abuse growing up and books like Arrows of the Queen maybe weren't enough to make me sit up and go "Oh! It's bad when they do it to her, it's bad when my parents do it to me." but they definitely laid the frameworks for figuring things out later and being able to make a break away from it and starting to heal.