She's constantly mentally putting herself down and thinking she's ugly and unfeminine-even though no one else seems to be working to give her this impression. Not only does she know nothing about sex (she's a virgin, which is fine, but seriously, she has never heard anybody talk about sex, not even her many, many, many sisters? Or her warrior traveling companions?), but she seems almost completely lacking in self-awareness. The female protagonist, Tyra, is twenty-five years old, a warrior, and supposedly intelligent, but she reads like a twelve-year-old. The worst thing about this book is the dullness of the characters. I only picked it up occasionally to read when my brain was too worn out to read anything more challenging (and because I was determined to finish-I hate not finishing a book). In fact, this was so dull that it took me about a week to read it because I just couldn't care less about what was happening. Apparently, these are supposed to be funny? I keep reading other people's reviews that say so, but I'm just not seeing it. I didn't hate this as much as I did The Reluctant Viking because it wasn't so explicitly anti-feminist (though it still had a troubling approach to gender), but this book was actually far less interesting. I have never read such a *boring* romance novel.
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