Title: very very bad
Review: Okay... I will admit that I haven't fully read this book. I started reading and gave up in disgust. The 'prejudice' that Kel gets seems forced. Tortall has had a 'female' Kings Champion for ten years and the guards to the Mother Goddess are females, so the 'weak female' prejudice doesn't ring true, especially from the man who has to train her. Yes it's a medieval world, yet the queen can fight and so does her bodyguard, the queen's riders are amongst the best fighters in Tortall and many women swell their ranks, so why would people be against female Knights... Surely with the history of Tortall, people would know that some women can fight.To have a book that focuses solely on kel's desire to be accepted as a knight, by laying the sexist attitudes on her with a trowel, particularly in a world like Tortall, seems wrong. And I couldn't get past the 'no women can become a Knight, they're too weak' attitudes from the council. Particularly given the recent history of Tortall.
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