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The Black Jewels Trilogy
by Anne Bishop
The Dark Jewels Trilogy (and it's many spinoffs) is probably a lot darker than many of my friends would probably prefer. It does deal with a lot of sexual topics so I found myself skimming a fair bit of pages, but I found it on the BYU library bookshelves, so it can't be too bad, right?
Anne Bishop does a fantastic job at building the complex social structure in these books. There's not as much detail on how the magic of this world works, which I would have found interesting, but she is wonderfully detailed about the social interactions of the characters--and it's these social interactions that drive the story. One of the things I found really strange (yet fascinating) is that the story is never told from the perspective of Jaenelle, the woman who is, in the classic sense of the word, the hero of the story. Instead you see her through the eyes of the people who matter most to her: her adoptive father, her adoptive brother, and her lover. I really loved this aspect of the story, although it meant that some parts of the story, which would have been interesting to read, were left out. Jaenelle is the one who knows the details about certain key events, but you are never quite privy to this knowledge. At the same time, some of my favorite scenes (the ones that make you smile and giggle a little to yourself for various reasons) are ones that probably would have been cut had Jaenelle been the main veiw point character.
Anne Bishop does a fantastic job at building the complex social structure in these books. There's not as much detail on how the magic of this world works, which I would have found interesting, but she is wonderfully detailed about the social interactions of the characters--and it's these social interactions that drive the story. One of the things I found really strange (yet fascinating) is that the story is never told from the perspective of Jaenelle, the woman who is, in the classic sense of the word, the hero of the story. Instead you see her through the eyes of the people who matter most to her: her adoptive father, her adoptive brother, and her lover. I really loved this aspect of the story, although it meant that some parts of the story, which would have been interesting to read, were left out. Jaenelle is the one who knows the details about certain key events, but you are never quite privy to this knowledge. At the same time, some of my favorite scenes (the ones that make you smile and giggle a little to yourself for various reasons) are ones that probably would have been cut had Jaenelle been the main veiw point character.