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The Ring of Ikribu (Red Sonja, #1)

David C. Smith,

Richard L. Tierney

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Nov 16, 2020 Clint rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sword-sorcery, dead-trees, fantasy, reh-and-reh-pastiche, 2020

This clips along at a furious pace, as expected from Mr. Smith.

My complaint with this novel is not with the novel itself, it’s with the Red Sonja lore. I’m not an expert. My Sonja experience comes from a handful of comics written by Roy Thomas, but I hate the idea that her chastity vow was imposed upon her by some spiritual wing and if she breaks the vow, she looses the fire that makes her bad ass.

I want Red Sonja to be a bad ass because she is the She-Devil with a Mother Fucking Sword, not as ...more

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