Title: Decent story.....if you can ignore the authors social views
Review: The idea was a good one.....but the promise of the story was not played out well. I believe the author had an agenda behind writing this book. Perhaps it was the dedication to all women who had been killed by husbands or boyfriends in the state of Colorodo which prefaced the book that tipped me off? The characters in the book, with the exception of the elf Natil, fall into the stereotypical ideas of the abusive male, and the resigned-to-fate female. Most of the action of the book tells of violent acts against women. Several times the author used the phrase, "men striking women, women scolding men..." to describe the life in a city.
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