I haven’t even finished this book yet, but am already pleased with the representation of women in it. Throughout the story we can see powerful sorceresses, female rulers, chiefs of cults and all sorts. The main character, for instance, is one of the five gods-chosen leaders of a religion and of a nation. Three of those leaders, by the way, are women. One of them has quite a liberal sexual life and, although not everybody approves of it, she goes on having sex with whoever she wants, which is cool. There might be some small details that one could say are sexist (one of the characters, for instance, needs to subtly convince a lad to invite her to a party, instead of inviting him herself), but they seem to be part of some cultures showed in the book, instead of a recurrent theme, and the characters that face such sexism find ways to fight or defy it. The fact that this book’s story is set in a medieval fantasy universe and the author chooses not to treat women as inferior to “add verisimilitude” to it speaks loads for itself. I’ve just read about half of it, so something else may come up and change my mind. I’ll let you guys know if such thing happens. But, so far, this book seems to portray a variety of interesting female characters. Maybe more POV characters could be female, but, as I said, I’m not done with it yet, so that may still happen.
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