I liked the idea and was, at first, won over, but got put off by all the natives being dirty, primitive and/or stupid, and her increasing use of torture and mind-control, and...
There's this scene in book one where there's been a flood and she's visiting it. The peasants explain that there's no clean water to drink, none. So she asks for dirty water and spells several buckets of it clean.
And then bathes in it. Ugh. I mean, luckily that world seems not to have cholera, but... ugh. From that point on, I lost all sympathy with her.
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Date: 2009-05-17 07:05 am (UTC)There's this scene in book one where there's been a flood and she's visiting it. The peasants explain that there's no clean water to drink, none. So she asks for dirty water and spells several buckets of it clean.
And then bathes in it. Ugh. I mean, luckily that world seems not to have cholera, but... ugh. From that point on, I lost all sympathy with her.