By The Sword, the Kerowyn novel,is actually my favourite of the lot. It still has problems: structurally it's three or four novellas from different points in Kerowyn's life; plus she's lumbered with a completely unreasonable fear of her own mindspeech gift for clumsy plot reasons, which under any reasonable interpretation of the circumstances Kethry and/or Warrl should have beaten out of her fixed. She inherited it from her grandfather, Kethry's husband, and spent several years living under the same roof as both Kethry and Warrl. Warrl does give her basic training, enough to keep her out of his dreams, but doesn't fix the issue, and Kethry seems almost uninterested. It's only Tarma who really trains her, and that's like leaving her with half her skillset not just untrained, but as a major chink in her armour
But because Tarma did train her to be a mercenary officer, and because she spent her career working as one, the finally-Chosen-in-spite-of-all-her-ridiculous-protests-Kerowyn hits the oh-so-noble and ridiculously unmilitary Heralds like a drill sergeant screaming at a bunch of raw recruits, and the later books become much more believable as a result.
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Date: 2018-01-04 02:33 pm (UTC)beaten out of herfixed. She inherited it from her grandfather, Kethry's husband, and spent several years living under the same roof as both Kethry and Warrl. Warrl does give her basic training, enough to keep her out of his dreams, but doesn't fix the issue, and Kethry seems almost uninterested. It's only Tarma who really trains her, and that's like leaving her with half her skillset not just untrained, but as a major chink in her armourBut because Tarma did train her to be a mercenary officer, and because she spent her career working as one, the finally-Chosen-in-spite-of-all-her-ridiculous-protests-Kerowyn hits the oh-so-noble and ridiculously unmilitary Heralds like a drill sergeant screaming at a bunch of raw recruits, and the later books become much more believable as a result.