![]() ![]() While some events happen to her in the beginning, she begins to take more authority over her choices and decisions little by little, until it is partly her energy and leadership that sustains a large group through a siege. It's part of the underlying irony that this is Ista's justification for travel when she secretly hates the gods and their interference in her life. "The dullness of her life, the stalemate of her soul since then was just long habit." She develops a plan to escape her highly protected life under the guise of a pilgrimage visiting various gods' shrines. However, she recognizes this and longs for some unspecified alternative. ![]() She's had emotional scarring in her past, and years of a cursed "madness" coupled with her status as a royal have kept her wrapped in a cocoon. ![]() Ista is an interesting, complex female lead that is reaching toward change, even if she isn't exactly sure how to get there. Paladin does something I never expected in an epic fantasy she's written a thoughtful coming-of-age story focused on a forty-year old noblewoman who has been fighting her 'god-touched' connection for years. Even if coming-into-one's power storylines are set with werewolves and vampires, a certain uniformity starts to develop. ![]() I'm a longtime fantasy reader, but I've gotten tired of the current crop of twenty year old heroines, the descriptions of their clothes, their vague struggles with boyfriends, and the development of their special powers. ![]()
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