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I've started this one 3 different times. Each time I tossed it for a different reason: (1) idiotic behavior on the part of the protaganists; (2) total editorial acceptance of the goal of the females to be limited solely to "becoming the girlfriend" or "being a good girlfriend" to the guys; (3) chasm-sized plot holes.

And .... what is Guy Gavriel Kay's obsession with the word "Shape"? Google has a way of counting words inside a book and it found:
Shape: 30 occurrences
Shapes: 19 occurrences
Shaped: 1
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