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Nov 09, 2007
Mike
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What a disappointment. It started out just fine with Lessa, sole survivor of her family wreaking revenge on the evil dude who conquered "Ruatha Hold". The whole dragon/human mind meld thing was okay too. The part that really disgusted me was the whole raping/physical abuse shtick by the supposed hero. My thoughts were, if this was my daughter as the heroine, then the only thing to be done would "bag and tag" that F'lar a**hole cause I would have invented the .45 cal and then blown his head off w
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Felt rather outdated. It annoyed my that the main male character F'lar mistreated Lessa the way he did, I mean shaking her everytime he was ticked at her ? Come on, If Lessa was half of what she was portrayed to be she would have told him to piss off and at least shook him back, I realize that this was written in the 60's but still...
I sincerely hope that McCaffreys writing improved as time went on like everyone says her writing did, but seeing how many 5 star reviews there are here i am wonderi ...more
I sincerely hope that McCaffreys writing improved as time went on like everyone says her writing did, but seeing how many 5 star reviews there are here i am wonderi ...more
Dec 18, 2007
Alice
rated it
really liked it
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fantasy-sciencefiction
Dec 26, 2007
Snake
marked it as to-read
May 15, 2008
Violaceous
marked it as to-read
May 17, 2009
Tonia
marked it as to-read
