My main issue with The Lions of Al-Rassan is that the fakey-Muslim religion and the fakey-Christian religion are represented by male warriors, whereas the fakey-Jewish religion is represented by a female doctor. Now, in general, female doctors are much more awesome than male warriors, but the whole thing is so . . . in line with ideas about Jews in medieval Europe, which has nothing to do with the actual situation in Spain in the thirteenth century which is what the novel is based on.
But hey, I can't complain too much, at least a) he included Jews at all and b) he did not establish one religion as being clearly superior to another according to the in-world rules. (I am looking at you SO HARD, Lois McMaster Bujold; you are in general a much better writer than GGK, too, and you don't have all those weird dudes-writing-ladies issues.)
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Date: 2015-01-16 11:42 am (UTC)But hey, I can't complain too much, at least a) he included Jews at all and b) he did not establish one religion as being clearly superior to another according to the in-world rules. (I am looking at you SO HARD, Lois McMaster Bujold; you are in general a much better writer than GGK, too, and you don't have all those weird dudes-writing-ladies issues.)