New fantasy release with a badass heroine

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Glutton

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The fifth book in the Legend of the Iron Flower series, featuring one of the toughest heroines you've ever seen!

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Action-packed fantasy adventure with a powerhouse female epic warrior in the spirit of Achilles or Beowulf.

The continuing saga of a warrior whose army-slaying sword belies her kind heart.

Nearly indestructible heroine Rose gets a letter from a foreign king inviting her to discuss opening a new branch of the center for magical study she helps run. Upon arriving in his kingdom of Terlon, she learns that his true motive is to request her aid against invaders from a larger country. Though annoyed by his deception, her compassion does not allow her to turn a blind eye to the suffering of his people and she agrees to help.

Following unfavorable developments in the war, Rose finds more and more responsibilities being heaped upon her shoulders. A bitter dispute breaks out over the leadership of Terlon with her caught in the middle, and a battle with the enemy nation's war god looms near. But even that might not be the most daunting trouble fate has planned for her.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B00FGJFHVW/tag=bilthestaarts-20

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/product/B00FGJFHVW/tag=bilthestaarts-20

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/361786
 

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Glutton

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Don't think it would be too mature, it doesn't have any explicit sexual content or anything - it's fairly violent, but no more so than a lot of video games.
 


Umbran

Umbran

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goldomark said:
Than you are doing it wrong.
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If the author is trying to support the fact that you don't need sex to be a strong, powerful woman, no, he's not doing it wrong.

There's this unfortunate trope out there (especially in urban fantasy) that "strong female character" means "has sex with anything that moves". Which, of course, continues to tie the character's strength to her sexual activity, which is silly.
 

Kramodlog

Kramodlog

Naked and living in a barrel
First off, it was a joke.

Secondly, I wasn't aware of this trope. Do you have examples?

Thirdly, women's sexuality has often been represed or absent in characters, except for antagonists who slept with everyone (basically the three female archetypes: the virgin, the mother, the whore). Having a female protagonist that has a sexuality, has a large sexual appetite and is not afraid to use her sexuality has a tool to advance her cause (why is it of for James Bond?), is fine by me.
 

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Glutton

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Well, she does have a sex life, but her being married with two children might be a bit of an obstacle to some things being suggested.

That and she might have some trouble attracting a lot of men anyway if she wasn't married - she's scarred up badly enough to scare kids. She has superhuman endurance that lets her survive some incredible wounds, but still scars when she heals from them.
 

Bullgrit

Bullgrit

Adventurer
Glutton, are you the author of this book? Or in some other way related to the book, (editor, cover artist, etc.)?

Bullgrit
 



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