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<blockquote data-quote="Mad Hatter" data-source="post: 1880217" data-attributes="member: 23731">Elemental, I would have to disagree with your assesment of Modesitt's Spellsong Cycle.&nbsp; I will give you that there is an insane amount of feminism going on in the book, thus is a source of annoyance.&nbsp; I would recommend that people should avoid the book like the plague if feminism in the slightest annoys them.&nbsp; However, she doesn't just look at the people and destroy them.&nbsp; The magical system he sets up is pretty interesting and it makes sense.&nbsp; For those who haven't read the series, the magic system is based on song.&nbsp; She has a ton of singing experience since she's a professor of music theory and has sung in opera and other stuff.&nbsp; So in light of this her eventual growth to power with education is reasonable.&nbsp; She's able to blow stuff up and generally cause havoc because she's studied using her voice way better than anyone in that world.As for the villains, they all attack her first.&nbsp; It wasn't just a whimsy thing.&nbsp; The Ebrans tried to kill her first, Dumar attacks Defalk first, the lords rebel, and Rabyn invades her land.&nbsp; So she isn't just going places and killin' people willy nilly.&nbsp; And she isn't always good and right, she makes some horrible errors; sure it works out in the end, but she is the protagonist.&nbsp; I stopped reading the series after Darksong Rising because I felt that the book series should have ended there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad Hatter, post: 1880217, member: 23731"] Elemental, I would have to disagree with your assesment of Modesitt's Spellsong Cycle. I will give you that there is an insane amount of feminism going on in the book, thus is a source of annoyance. I would recommend that people should avoid the book like the plague if feminism in the slightest annoys them. However, she doesn't just look at the people and destroy them. The magical system he sets up is pretty interesting and it makes sense. For those who haven't read the series, the magic system is based on song. She has a ton of singing experience since she's a professor of music theory and has sung in opera and other stuff. So in light of this her eventual growth to power with education is reasonable. She's able to blow stuff up and generally cause havoc because she's studied using her voice way better than anyone in that world. As for the villains, they all attack her first. It wasn't just a whimsy thing. The Ebrans tried to kill her first, Dumar attacks Defalk first, the lords rebel, and Rabyn invades her land. So she isn't just going places and killin' people willy nilly. And she isn't always good and right, she makes some horrible errors; sure it works out in the end, but she is the protagonist. I stopped reading the series after Darksong Rising because I felt that the book series should have ended there. [/QUOTE]

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