Why do women have to be wives? A look at the female characters in Throne of the Crecent Moon
The women in Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon are wonderful additions to the fantasy family. They’re interesting and well developed, and all have their own wants, dreams, strengths, and weaknesses. They’re also not described tit-first, which is a great improvement on George RR Martin’s writings. Yes, I understand –insert female character here- has tits that exist, you don’t need to tell me more about them. The closest we even get to a “tit description” would be in the fact that Zamia has a “boyish body”. Speaking of the devil, Zamia Banu Laith Badawi is a tribeswoman who lived in the desert. The city-folk see her as a savage, but she sees the city folk as weak and uncaring. You get more than one perspective on her, one of them being her own. Through her mind you see she isn’t a savage barbarian, she’s a normal person influenced by her upbringing, just like everyone else. She’s gifted the first ever female heard of gifted with the lion-shape, which allows her to transfo...
