Hazel
In contrast to The Exile and the Sorcerer, this book definitely feels like the two back-to-back stories that it is. The first is great and the second is a bit shaky at its foundations. I could snark about how of course the British Steerswomen equivalent hinges on censorship and immutable class, or roll my eyes at the more new-agey aspects of the setting's magic, but all in all it's pretty dang readable. Barbarian-librarian F/F with secular humanist convictions is hard to beat as a microgenre!
In contrast to The Exile and the Sorcerer, this book definitely feels like the two back-to-back stories that it is. The first is great and the second is a bit shaky at its foundations. I could snark about how of course the British Steerswomen equivalent hinges on censorship and immutable class, or roll my eyes at the more new-agey aspects of the setting's magic, but all in all it's pretty dang readable. Barbarian-librarian F/F with secular humanist convictions is hard to beat as a microgenre!