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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
IOn a side note, this series is also notable in that Caudwell never explicitly identifies Hilary Tamar's gender. See if you can find any place in the story where Tamar is referred to as him/her .... or where there is any gender-specific reference to clothes, etc.
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Nope, never specified. I love the ambiguity, and just picture Hilary as a sort of androgynous don of the type that many of us have probably had as a teacher or professor at some time or other. But, this is what drove my best friend to hate the series. She couldn't get over not knowing Hilary's gender, and it just ruined it for her - thus leading to my previous comment that you either love the series or hate it.
Sadly, the first one,
Thus Was Adonis Murdered, is not available in e-book yet, and although this isn't totally a series that you MUST read in order, I do think that
Adonis does the best job of introducing the characters. Sigh - hopefully someday!