This isn't meant to be confrontational: the ahistorical stuff doesn't bother you? If only the writer had set it as alternate history, I would have been fine with it, but what broke me was her doing sexy dancing on her riverboat as advertising and surviving between stops unraped.

That said, I wouldn't disrecommend it to anyone because I do acknowledge I'm a historicity nut and it colors how I view a book. But I hate for people to think that if only women of the past had shown a little resolution, they could have shaped their own lives. Those who did so had to show a LOT of resolution and were social outcasts, for the most part.

I'm babbling. I just wanted to ask what you thought.

Tammy Pierce (tammy212.livejournal.com