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timwolfe 's review for:
The Sword Woman
by Robert E. Howard
So yeah, I'm gradually adding the books I've read in the last year. This was one I'd been looking for a little while, since I'm increasingly drawn to low fantasy (the non-epic sort) and learned there were a few very early such stories written with female protagonists. (These stories, for instance, were written in the 1920's.)
There were a few good ideas and story twists here, but the characters were pretty one-dimensional -- even the heroine leaned too much on stereotypes of the "feisty woman" (from her fiery temper to her red hair). She also tends to be brutal and heartless, maybe because most everyone else (men) she meets is, too (which is a grim, one-note world that wouldn't hold my interest much longer than these few stories).
Still it's nice to think that someone was putting a sword and pistol in the hands of a woman nearly a century ago, letting her reject marriage and stand on her own... not to mention become a mercenary who will take on all comers.
There were a few good ideas and story twists here, but the characters were pretty one-dimensional -- even the heroine leaned too much on stereotypes of the "feisty woman" (from her fiery temper to her red hair). She also tends to be brutal and heartless, maybe because most everyone else (men) she meets is, too (which is a grim, one-note world that wouldn't hold my interest much longer than these few stories).
Still it's nice to think that someone was putting a sword and pistol in the hands of a woman nearly a century ago, letting her reject marriage and stand on her own... not to mention become a mercenary who will take on all comers.