[JohnH]

I should mention that I do like yours very much. But having only read the first book, I am afraid I have to wait and see where you take both women!

[glendalarke]

More like where did they take me, John H!

Oddly enough, the second book of the trilogy, Gilfeather, also has a sword wielding female on the cover of the American version, even though the character in question - Flame - never picks up a sword, ever, in the whole trilogy and wouldn't know what to do with it if she did. And the main character is the Gilfeather of the title - a man. I guess the marketing people think that strong women characters wielding swords sell books...

[sillysod]

I haven't read most of the books mentioned here, but still, my favourite female characters in SFF are:

Ilian, the female Eternal Champion from Michael Moorcock's The Champion of Garathorm and Ms. Una Persson from various stories of his (although I haven't read all the stories she is in.

Kin Arad from Terry Pratchett's Strata is an intelligent and interesting character, although she is a little generic. I also like Pratchett's Witches, although they are actually comic characters rather than fantasy characters.

I don't have a wide experience of fantasy. These are just some options.

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[MichaelEhart]

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