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Title: "Good to have her back, but cruel and violent"
Review: In her previous books, especially Sardonyx Net, we saw a writer dealing with issues of slavery, power exchange, and physical and psychological cruelty. In Dragon's Winter, the physical cruelty is on the ascendent and seems sometimes more important than character and plot. She is a wonderful writer, and she develops characters and makes you care for them a lot before they are brutally dispatched. I haven't read too many fantasy novels since the late '80's, so maybe the genre has changed and I'm behind the times. This is a really good book, and I look forward to the second one, but I was put off by the violence and cruelty.
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