Black Jewels sporking

[beroli]

I'm going to begin a critical deconstruction/sporking of Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series. I'm going to try to be scrupulously fair; if you think I've read something wrong, by all means, tell me. I reserve the right to disagree (and to tell you to drop it, or take it to your own journal, if it gets to being pointless back-and-forth).

If I don't have something specific to say about a chapter, I'll summarize it, so that people who haven't read the books will still be able to follow along with the narrative.