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Title: Slow, Plodding
Review: Sheepfarmer's Daughter starts with awesome premises: A sheepfarmer's daughter makes good; she commits herself to a life for which she has passion; she is a person of character, mercy and dedication. That is where its appealing characteristics end.It plods. It spends much time in the nitty-gritty aspects of recruitment and training. Being an Army veteran, I think the more interesting aspects of the story lie elsewhere. I can read biographies and analyses on military training in the Middle Ages.I barely finished this book and did not move on to the others. I think the litmus test for pacing is R.A. Salvatore. Never plodding, never slow, always interesting (sometimes silly or stupid, but redeemingly so). I hope Elizabeth Moon takes a few pages from his writing style.
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