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Jalav, Amazon Warrior #2
An Oath to Mida (Bk. II)
Wounded and near death, Jalav, war leader of the Hosta clan is kidnapped by northern barbarians who believe she is the one the legends say will journey to Sigurr's Peak
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First published June 7, 1983
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Sharon Green
148 books109 followersBorn and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Attended New York University and graduated with a B.A. in 1963. Married in 1963, had three sons, divorced in 1976. Raised the sons, Andy, Brian and Curtis, alone in New Jersey. Worked for AT&T as a shareowner correspondent, then as an all-around assistant in a construction company, then sold bar steel for an import firm. Left that job as assistant sales manager. I've been writing full time since 1984.
Hobbies: knitting, crocheting, Tae Kwon Do, fencing, archery, shooting, jigsaw puzzles, logic problems, math problems, not cooking.
Don't do my own research, since if I did I'd stay with that and never get any writing done. I usually can finish a novel of about 120,000 words in about three months.
Hobbies: knitting, crocheting, Tae Kwon Do, fencing, archery, shooting, jigsaw puzzles, logic problems, math problems, not cooking.
Don't do my own research, since if I did I'd stay with that and never get any writing done. I usually can finish a novel of about 120,000 words in about three months.
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May 16, 2017
Book 2
This follows Crystals Of Mida. Jalav is forced to submit to Ceralt, who claims to love her. Unfortunately he doesn't love anything she does or says. He doesn't respect anything she achieved or her former position as War Leader. Instead he is determined to change her into a obedient, servile, sex slave. This is while he continues to proclaim his eternal connection to her. The Gods move in mysterious ways as the book builds into a revealing climax in more ways than one. Definitely for mature audiences.
This follows Crystals Of Mida. Jalav is forced to submit to Ceralt, who claims to love her. Unfortunately he doesn't love anything she does or says. He doesn't respect anything she achieved or her former position as War Leader. Instead he is determined to change her into a obedient, servile, sex slave. This is while he continues to proclaim his eternal connection to her. The Gods move in mysterious ways as the book builds into a revealing climax in more ways than one. Definitely for mature audiences.
September 4, 2017
Jalav continues her quest and adventures. She has to be strong enough and be a survivor. Nothing is easy.
February 27, 2013
This book is hard to classify, in so far as it's a book of a particular time, and it's... in a way. lampooining a very specific thing. The Author has stated that this, and some of her other earlier works, were inspired by her annoyance with the 'Gor' books by John Norman, and her desire to portray such situations(that is sexual dominance/submission fantasies basically) in a more nuanced and realistic fashion.
Thus the book in a way is a service to many similar conceptions that inform the Gor novels, while overly mocking them. The protagaonist, Jalav, is an 'Amazon'. An almost absurd Warrior from a Matriachal culture in which life is about killing and battle and occasionally capturing men to mate with. In the course of the book, she suffers being captured herself and subjected to sexual slavery and domination at the hands of 'males'.
Written in the first person, we are given Jalav's viewpoint, which has an interesting structure of providing things that 'we' would find normal(i.e. A man's desire to 'take care' of his woman) as being absurd and insane. It's a good motif and technique, if used to the point where even the satire runs thin.
The spoof of Gor is obvious, both in the way it lampoons certain linguistic traits of those books(the over-use of 'male' and 'female' as nouns for example. i.e. "The party arived, Four Males with their females in tow.", the bizarre over-description. Weird references to Hair and elaborate yet consistant references to ritual elements of culture. Weird names, such that all food items are named, but with odd, 'unearthly' names... etc.), and in the way it ultimately undercuts one of 'Gors' central running themes. By the end of the Novel, Jalav is just as she was before, if perhaps now slightly enamoured of one of the 'men' she was captured to. She hasn't found 'glorius freedom 'in her captivity, just a look at her own culture through others eyes and vice-versa. It takes the biological determinism that underpins so much of Gor and kicks it in the teeth.
The thing abotu this book is that it's so focused on this introspection, you almost forget there is a 'plot' going on. Indeed, I realized by the end that this was basically a novella, padded out with vivid description fo sex, dominance/submission play and so forth. The fantasy plot that underpins it, is actually kind of interesting, and sort of hints at more in a future volume which I may actually be interested enough in to read.
That all being said, if you don't have the background in certain things, than this book would just come across as an absurd offensive collection of nonesense. I'd recommend it to those who like a bit of levity in their fantasy, coupled with some BDSM themes. Or those who want to read what is a really brutal Lampoon of Gor.
Thus the book in a way is a service to many similar conceptions that inform the Gor novels, while overly mocking them. The protagaonist, Jalav, is an 'Amazon'. An almost absurd Warrior from a Matriachal culture in which life is about killing and battle and occasionally capturing men to mate with. In the course of the book, she suffers being captured herself and subjected to sexual slavery and domination at the hands of 'males'.
Written in the first person, we are given Jalav's viewpoint, which has an interesting structure of providing things that 'we' would find normal(i.e. A man's desire to 'take care' of his woman) as being absurd and insane. It's a good motif and technique, if used to the point where even the satire runs thin.
The spoof of Gor is obvious, both in the way it lampoons certain linguistic traits of those books(the over-use of 'male' and 'female' as nouns for example. i.e. "The party arived, Four Males with their females in tow.", the bizarre over-description. Weird references to Hair and elaborate yet consistant references to ritual elements of culture. Weird names, such that all food items are named, but with odd, 'unearthly' names... etc.), and in the way it ultimately undercuts one of 'Gors' central running themes. By the end of the Novel, Jalav is just as she was before, if perhaps now slightly enamoured of one of the 'men' she was captured to. She hasn't found 'glorius freedom 'in her captivity, just a look at her own culture through others eyes and vice-versa. It takes the biological determinism that underpins so much of Gor and kicks it in the teeth.
The thing abotu this book is that it's so focused on this introspection, you almost forget there is a 'plot' going on. Indeed, I realized by the end that this was basically a novella, padded out with vivid description fo sex, dominance/submission play and so forth. The fantasy plot that underpins it, is actually kind of interesting, and sort of hints at more in a future volume which I may actually be interested enough in to read.
That all being said, if you don't have the background in certain things, than this book would just come across as an absurd offensive collection of nonesense. I'd recommend it to those who like a bit of levity in their fantasy, coupled with some BDSM themes. Or those who want to read what is a really brutal Lampoon of Gor.
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