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Catherine M. Wilson: The Warrior's Path

When she was a child, the author of When Women Were Warriors happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began, „Once upon a time, a young man went out to seek his fortune.” But she would have been delighted to discover even one story like that with a female protagonist. Since she never did find the story she was looking for all those years ago, she decided to write it.

In Book I of the trilogy, Tamras arrives in Merin's house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin's house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras.

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Enciklopédia 7

Szereplők népszerűség szerint

Gnith · Maara · Merin · Tamras · Vintel


Kedvencelte 1

Várólistára tette 3

Kívánságlistára tette 1


Kiemelt értékelések

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Catherine M. Wilson: The Warrior's Path

Okos, őszinte könyv. Nagyon emberiek a szereplők, bensőséges és többször önismereti jellegűek benne az elbeszélések. Nem fantasy a szó szoros értelmében, hanem egy alternatív történelmet mutat be egy bronzkori matriarchális rendszerről. Nincsenek benne nagy ütközetek, kalandos csaták, inkább csak a szív és az ész belső küzdelme mutatkozik meg.
Imádtam a be-beszúrt történeteket, ezt Emma Donoghue-nál, A. S. Kingnél és Malinda Lonál is nagyon élveztem; persze ezt is nagyon el lehet rontani, de itt szerencsére nem ez történt, sőt!
Ami kicsit zavart, az a Tamras-Sparrow szál, emiatt is vontam le az egy csillagot, ugyanis szerintem az teljesen felesleges volt – kivéve a barátságukat.

Összességében ez egy nagyon jól sikerült kis kötet.

Ajánlom.


Népszerű idézetek

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„Why do you care about Vintel's opinion?”
„I don't!” I said. „I don't care what she thinks!”
„Of course you do. Why else would you be angry?”
I couldn't think of a good answer.
„Shall I tell you why?” she said.
I nodded.
„Because you didn't know you had a choice.”
„What choice?”
„To be angry or not.”
It was the silliest thing I'd ever heard. „That's not a choice.”
„Yes,” she said. „It is.” She waited patiently for me to understand.
„How coud that be a choice? When someone insults me, it makes me angry.”
„If that's true, then your feelings will always be at the mercy of others.”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: döntés · harag · Maara · Tamras · Vintel
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    „Im not sure I understand you,” she said. „Are you telling me you saved my life because you were angry with me?”
    The idea struck me funny.
    „Yes,” I said, trying not to smile. „Furious.”
    „Furious?”
    „Enraged,” I said.
    „Oh dear.” And then she smiled.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Maara · Tamras
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    „Were there once only women warriors, Mother?”
    „Don't know.”
    „Oh.” I started to get up.
    „Why?”
    „Who else should take a life? No man ever brought a child out of his body.”
    Something about that explanation bothered me. „Do you mean that a woman may take a life because she can give life back?”
    „No, no,” she said. „Think of a woman whose body has made a child. Who gave birth to it. Cradled and nursed it. Loved it. She will hold life dear differently than someone who has not.”
    I wondered if once only mothers had been warriors.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Gnith · Tamras
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„[…] There's something comforting about things that are familiar.”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Tamras
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    „Food is the distance you can travel in a day and the cold you can withstand at night.”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Maara
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„The last thing I want is another war,” the Lady said. „When I was young, I learned the ways of war, but no one taught me how to keep the peace. If anyone knows how to do that, she must be the wisest woman in the world.”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Merin
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„How had the queen recieved her heart's desire when she recieved the mirror?” Maara asked me.
„She didn't understand its power,” I replied. „She wanted dreams that would foretell the future, but she failed to read the future in her own face.”
„If the Lady had such a mirror, would she have the wisdom to use it well, do you think?”
„I don't know,” I said. „The Lady is clever, but I'm no judge of wisdom.”
Maara's eyes held mine. She had a strange expression on her face, as if she was seeing something unexpected.
„The Lady may well have such a mirror,” she said.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Maara · Tamras
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    Seldom it happens that wisdom will conquer anger or that grief will yield to compassion, but that day the queen's heart was satisfied.

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    If people of the same tribe could believe so differently, how would I ever understand the world?

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Tamras
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    „[…] From what you've told me about her, she says so little that it would be difficult to catch her in a lie. And sometimes the greatest lies are found in what people fail to say.”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Merin

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