Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem
Author of A Sword in Her Hand
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- Birthdate
- 1963-12-01
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- België
- Birthplace
- Gent, België
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- Works
- 19
- Members
- 228
- Popularity
- #98,697
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 14
- ISBNs
- 46
- Languages
- 5
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Four months into the marriage, she can slip out of their bed in the middle of the night, and she can put on his clothes. She can look in the mirror and like what she sees. She can sneak out of the house before dawn and visit the baker's scrawny son, who has just been drafted into the army, and offer to take his place. Vive l'Empereur!
Hot on Stance's tail all the while is her younger brother Pieter, determined to bring Stance back home to Ghent where she belongs. (The battlefield is no place for a young lady, after all.)
Ironhead, or, Once A Young Lady is the riotous and powerful story of a fierce renegade, and the silly men who try to bring her down.
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.
My Review: I can only say that Stance makes a perfectly good male character...selfish, unthinking, insensitive to the feelings of others...and a generally unpleasant person to read about for those reasons.
I suspect this is not the author's intent. I can't prove that. I was reading along and suddenly had the thought that I wasn't clear why Stance was female to begin with. Does this selfish, thoughtless teenager who's only focused on how ro get what she wants actually need to be female? The message that sounds like it sends to me is "only boys get to do, say, think, and act exactly as they please." I don't like that message.
The translation read very well, in that I was never bored...just squicked out...and I particularly enjyed the oddly specific details of how that era's firearms worked. Not a book I'd give to my granddaugher but fine for adults.… (more)