Mm, I didn't have issues with the coercion as it was so clearly non-gendered - and the heroine, despite her past, never feared that she'd be raped or abused while in the power of authority, if I make sense. I mean, she clearly trusted the people whose power she was in to play by their own rules.
Yeah, the Commander was awesome, and I really enjoyed seeing such a novel social structure in a fantasy novel! Sadly the books suffered from the law of diminishing returns.
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Date: 2010-02-10 06:58 pm (UTC)Yeah, the Commander was awesome, and I really enjoyed seeing such a novel social structure in a fantasy novel! Sadly the books suffered from the law of diminishing returns.