Jacqueline Carey

Or do something that they cannot, which enables them to then do their goal.

So like, for example, in Jacqueline Carey's, you know, in the books that I love so much, the Cashel books, the main character, Phaedra, never learns how to use a sword.

She's never a warrior woman, right? She has got her lover with her who is a warrior.

And so she never does the fighting, right? Whenever there's fighting, he always does the fighting, right? That doesn't make her a damsel in distress because she has all of the other agency.

Yeah, exactly.

And yeah, I rant about the whole damsel in distress because...

It kills me for like that Jacqueline Carey story.

So many people today see that as, well, you can't have that.

We are gonna look at how power is wielded not with armies or magic swords, but on a deeply personal level, proving that epic fantasy isn't just about armies clashing.

This brings us to Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart.

This novel is incredible.

It's often credited as the sophisticated blueprint for the massively popular romantasy genre we see everywhere today.

Like, Jim C. Hines is in here.

Jacqueline Carey's in here.

Yes.

But then you've got some, like, really interesting ones, so it, it goes either way.