*grumblegrumble*

[katikat]

You know, I really hate authors - especially female authors - who tend to portray males as assholes and females as a some sort of sacrament on principle. In the real world, it's never that black and white and I hate it when the actions of heroines can be excused time and time again but heroes are doomed by their gender from the start.

Yes, I'm talking about Sara Douglass. I mean, come on! Faraday is saint, Azhure is saint, Rivkah is saint. But Axis is a jerk. Yes, Faraday loved Axis, but she just had to marry his brother Borneheld to save Axis' life (I still don't understand that reasoning though). She shared Borneheld's bed but she did it to save Axis' life (huh?). She's just a poor suffering soul who abhores violence and wants nothing more than make love to Axis and bear him children and frolick in the Sacred Grove with the Horned Ones... And Axis? After she left him, he dared to take a lover, he dared to care for her, he dared to have a child with her. How dared he? Yes, because that's the only thing he had on his mind because, you know, saving the world is secondary to how much he should cherish Faraday. She left him without explaining anything but that it was for his own good. But yes, Axis is an asshole and a jerk and traitor and literally everybody hates him for falling in love with Azhure when poor Faraday was so suffering for him... Oh, and then they hate him for even thinking of leaving Azhure for Faraday. But both Azhure and Faraday will magnanimously forgive him his wrongs, of course.

GRR!!! Like, for real?!

Comments

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I haven't read that series in so long. Axis was a douche, but I didn't like any of the women much, either. Farady refused to confront her problems, but Azhure was the opposite - way too aggresive. I never got the love for either of them, and don't even get me started on the clusterfuck of the Wayfarer Redemption.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I can't believe that someone on my flist knows this series! *jumps you*

The plot of the book is really interesting. But once the author starts dabbing into relationships, it makes me groan and moan. I mean, Axis doesn't know what he wants but the female characters get on my nerves just as much. And I hate the way it's written - the author sets Axis to be a jerk from the very beginning while the girls, and especially Faraday, walk on water *head/desk* I especially "loved" Faraday's naked frolicking in the Sacrad Grove *snorts*

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

The mythology is really interesting, but when the most stable, well-balanced and likeable person in your books is - wait, have you read the sequel trilogy?

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm reading "Enchanter" at the moment. But since I'm not doing it for pleasure but it's work for me, feel free to spoil me :)

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

Spoil you how much? At the end of the Battleaxe trilogy, Axis and Azhure are crowned king and queen of the whole land, have a bunch of kids, and adopt Faraday's son as well, because Faraday is not exactly dead. They decide one of their kids, Drago, is evil, wipe his memory, and spend his whole lifetime treating him like dirt, before taking off to become gods. Caelum becomes king and totally sucks at it because his parents never corrected him and now he's an arrogant douchebag, his sister Riverstar is a total slut, their baby sister Zenith is possessed by the evil spirit of Azhure's mother Niah, and Drago is the most sane, well-balanced, likeable, sympathetic person in the whole bunch, even though he does eventually bring about Armageddon, totes on accident, he swears. Oh, and their half-brother - Ishmael? - is kind of insanely violent.

Man, I need to reread these books.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Oh my, that's... Wow. Suddenly, I feel like reading some evil!Sam fics XD

But reading that, I wonder if the whole separated races status quo they had at the beginning wasn't somehow better XP And how can someone accidentaly cause Armageddon? It's like the SGA fic by Pru where Rodney accidentaly adopted a child XD

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

The "separated races" thing is what causes the problem in the first place - Drago gets made human and mortal while the rest of his siblings get to be Icarii. he resents it, so when a sorceress offers him back his immortality in return for just a little help, we swear, it won't even hurt - yeah, accidental armageddan. He fixes it in the end, though, and hooks up with Faraday.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

So, Faraday finally found her one-and-only love? Good for her. I never understood her infatuation with Axis - she saw him one time and she knew he was her destiny *snorts* Though it feels kinda like watching Days of Our Lives - confusing family relations, really.

And did you read Fiona McIntosh's "The Quickening" trilogy? She's also Australian.

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

It wasn't like "one-and-only love" territory. It was more like "the world has screwed us both spectacularly. let's be friends." nd then they turn out to be the onyl hope of the world and everybody else is all "But he's evil! But she's dead!"