Yeah, no, I totally get what you're saying - tons of writers have romantic couplings where the woman still gets to be awesome afterwards (and some, like Alanna, where the guy is perfectly happy with not being as awesome as the girl, which I think is great). But yeah -- I haven't read Nimisha's Ship, but one of McCaffrey's books that always bothered me that way was Damia (and possibly Rowan, though I don't remember that one as well), which in addition has the ick factor where she finds Twu Luv with the guy who's basically been a parental figure her whole life. Who can take care of her. Ick.
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Date: 2009-04-29 10:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, no, I totally get what you're saying - tons of writers have romantic couplings where the woman still gets to be awesome afterwards (and some, like Alanna, where the guy is perfectly happy with not being as awesome as the girl, which I think is great). But yeah -- I haven't read Nimisha's Ship, but one of McCaffrey's books that always bothered me that way was Damia (and possibly Rowan, though I don't remember that one as well), which in addition has the ick factor where she finds Twu Luv with the guy who's basically been a parental figure her whole life. Who can take care of her. Ick.