Several of my friends really like a couple of other series that Anne Bishop writes, so I'm hoping to like those better when I get to them. Despite all the referencing of Hell, darkness, spiders, venom, etc., they pretty typical romances, complete with jealousy, misunderstandings, and forgiveness culminating in happily ever after endings.
Two of them (Lucivar's and Daemon's stories) are basically romances, getting Lucivar married to Marian and repairing Daemon's relationship with Jaenelle (and incidentally marrying them too). Then each of the remaining three centred around one of the three men mentioned above.
The first one was almost incomprehensible to me, so there's that. This volume consists of four pieces of short fiction in the Black Jewels world. If women actually ruled, there wouldn't be all these snarly alpha males hogging the limelight. Supposedly the women are dominant and in charge, but then there are Saetan, Daemon, and Lucivar rampaging about, making all these theoretically powerful women wet themselves from fear.
The illogic of this fantasy world drives me nuts.
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