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Daughter of Benedict, mother to Merlin and paramour of Corwin. It's... complicated to say the least. Pretty cool in the first half of the series, less cool in the second half.I have to say, while one doesn't have to dig deep to find some archaic notions of gender roles blah blah insert my feminist tirade here blah blah. This series, that written from the tail end of the seventies to the early nineties, is still considerably more progressive and less sexist than plenty of stuff that comes out these days.
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Haven't finished the second half of the series so I can't comment on that, but she's definitely an interesting character. I like how you've got both her human and demon forms in the trump.
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Yeah, I almost went that way with Merlin's trump too, but it just didn't work.
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That would've been pretty cool.
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Maybe he'll get another trump if I ever get around to doing a courts of chaos series.
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Ohh I do like this, not quite how I imagined her looking, but she certainly feels like Dara!
And honestly the so-called sexism doesn't really bother me. It's clear that Amber is a patriarchal society, so the fact that it's the sons that are (mostly) fighting for power only makes sense, and since we're following Corwin it makes sense that it's his struggles we focus on, but who knows what the girls were really up to in the background? In short, I'd rather have good writing that makes sense, than perfectly balanced gender-roles just to be politically correct. (Besides, Amber has Fiona, she makes up for A LOT! XD)
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Eh, I acknowledge it's there, but I don't let it bother me. Even Corwin is pretty self aware of the whole system. Dara's a pretty deft subversion of both the manic pixie dream girl and the demon seductress. The rest of the series is home to several different women, including Fiona, Llewella and Flora. All dynamic and different, and nobody's priority is being a role model, which is another common pitfall for women in books.
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Llewella and Vialle comes close to playing with the "female role model" thing in my opinion, but you're right, all the characters are treated and written as people rather than some stereotype, which is depressingly rare really. But as I said, good writing can make up for a lot, and in this case it never really bothered me while reading the books, and when it was clear that it was there I saw it more as an "issue" (for a lack of a better word) with corwin rather than an issue with the author if that makes any sense?
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More of a feature rather than a flaw? Yeah, that's what I think.
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Nice Trump 
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