Of course, these thoughts directly correlate with actions. He takes a surprising amount of pride in only having sex with women consensually, and even then, he’s more than happy to make deals where desperate women without other recourse offer him sex in exchange for his help. He thinks of women almost exclusively in terms of their attractiveness and his chances of getting in their pants. Hoolies, he even made me laugh a few times. I normally would hate this approach, but Tiger has just the right amount of self-awareness to make it work.
He’s half talking as if telling the story at a bar-he issues lots of asides for the reader’s benefit-and half as if he’s narrating events as they unfurl. They team up, mostly due to Tiger’s desire to bone Del, and tackle the dangerous obstacles standing between her and her brother.Īll of this is told through Tiger’s narration. A chauvinist sword-for-hire-Tiger-meets a hard-as-ice woman-Del-seeking her kidnapped brother. Because I expected a ridiculous book, I was disarmed by how much I enjoyed it. In hindsight, this might have been a problem in-and-of itself.
I admit I bought Sword-Dancer largely for a laugh due to the phallic and sexualized cover illustration, and so I went into the novel without expectations of quality. I just finished reading Sword-Dancer by Jennifer Roberson, and I am so dissatisfied.
*** Warning: References to rape and slavery***
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