Well, I did give it a shot several years ago after loving Moon's Heris Serrano books (I know I've pimped those out here before, military SF with a female lead and strong focus on female characters, including many that are middle-aged or elderly...how often do you see that?), but bounced off because I wasn't in the mood for modern fantasy when I picked it out of the library, and had to take it back before I got around to feeling like finishing it. I don't remember there being any rape in what little of it I did get through, though -- she runs away from home because she's uninterested in the arranged marriage her father's trying to spring on her, and joins a mercenary company because she always wanted to be a warrior like her cousin. Looks like Baen has that whole first book online (http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0671654160/0671654160.htm) if you want to give it a shot for free...
(Also, the friend who'd recced it to me had also recced, but with strong warnings about the content, Robin McKinley's Deerskin, so I really doubt Lela would have neglected to mention if this one was full of rape and trauma too...)
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Date: 2008-10-08 12:59 am (UTC)(Also, the friend who'd recced it to me had also recced, but with strong warnings about the content, Robin McKinley's Deerskin, so I really doubt Lela would have neglected to mention if this one was full of rape and trauma too...)