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Originally Posted by HarryT
I like a lot of Lackey's stuff, but I must admit that I find the constant pushing of the "gay agenda" in some of the Valdemar books to be a little "over the top". I don't have the slightest issue with characters in a book being gay (that is, after all, simply a reflection of the real world), but I find that in some of the Valdemar books it's "pushed forward" to such an extent that it gets in the way of the plot-line.
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For me, it's not that the characters are gay, but that they're... well...
whiny. Not that this is restricted to the gay characters, but they seem to get a double-dose. I like a bit of introspection, but Lackey takes it to a new level. There wasn't so much of it in
Arrows of the Queen and its two sequels, but it really interfered with my enjoyment of pretty much all her books since the
Last Herald Mage series. I found myself skimming through the bits with the really moody characters.
But perhaps that's just me.
