The Realm of Fantasy Forum

I have to agree with all you said. I don't remember the titles of each book, but I thought the first to be fantastic. I believed he really had something no one had done before. The female's had a strong role and personalities, and I bought each new book when it was released. Like you, I became disenchanted, disheartened and eventually disappointed. He blew a great opportunity. I remember throwing one book and not touching it again for a while. I struggled through the last books, hoping for redemption of the series but it left me flat.

I watched maybe fifteen minutes of episode one in the tv series. The girl's hair was the wrong color. Didn't they read the books?

Robert Jordan/ Brandon Sanderson tried taking the extreme opposite with the women in Wheel of Time series and failed in my opinion.
Rather than writing strong willed, and intelligent women, they made them a bit obnoxious, definitely snobby and sometimes downright bitches.
But I'm an old man so what do I know.

Terry Brooks didn't do any better in the Shanarra series.
David Eddings did write a few strong female characters in the Belgarion and Mallorion series. I love the way Eddings wrote as well. I could get lost in his books.
I am writing an epic fantasy story. Epic only because I looked up the definitions of genres and mine is 700,000 words and going. I will split it up into separate books some day. My female MC is the male MC's partner in the Rangers. She is equal in every way and they don't much like each other...yet. I discovered re-reading it, that I wrote a damn romance story into it without knowing.

I have not read many great female MCs, and that is a shame. One good one is the Warrior Chronicles by K.F. Breene. The MC is a female and she is likable, deadly and has issues like us all.

I am partial to the classic story Ivanhoe because that book hooked me on fantasy-sword fights-magic side of fantasy. I read that fifty years ago.

It is our job to write the next great one that sets men and women in the same light, and she should save him a few times. Mine saves him several times because she is a magical healer.
Speaking of running on, I'll shut up. I agree, and will try my best to make my story worth reading for both of us