[LMB] OT: Tamora Pierce books was Introduction

[Anita]

On Nov 15, 2007 8:55 AM, Beth Mitcham <mitcham.beth at gmail.com> wrote:

> I enjoyed the Pierce books, my main quibbles that the world-building seems
> thin, the characters have very modern attitudes even when their societies
> do
> not,  and some of the relationships set off my squick meter (older teacher
> marrying his student before she turns 16), for example.
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One of the things that seems to have caused problems with the world-building
of the Tortall world-frame is that she is stuck with decisions she made
early in her career as a writer. Yeah I have to agreee about the characters
with very modern attitudes. One of the things I liked about Terrier is the
incomes of the Dogs (militia/police force) comes entirely from bribes.

I'm going to nitpick about Daine and Numair. She's 15/16 when they become
involved and he does propose then but she's not silly enough to marry him
then. They don't marry until Trickster's Choice, IIRC, and by then I
estimate that Daine would be about 25. I'll also say that when I first read
the Immortals that didn't set off my squick meter because I was young enough
not to see the problem.

I think one of the other reasons why the Tamora Pierce books appealed so
strongly is that the characters are so passionate about what they do.

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