Defining Characteristics: RH and ML

[Tintaglia]

I had never thought about ML as cynical, I need to keep that idea in mind next time I read one of those stories and see if I can find that tone. What do you all think?

It's difficult for me to say, having read only the first two books of Ki and Vandien's quartet and a couple of short stories...
I don't find ML cynical, maybe only... sadder than RH.
I try to explain myself: Robin solves all the threads and the problems, and often her characters have good end (the Liveship trilogy, the Tawny man trilogy), sometimes a excessively good end (Soldier son trilogy: why Nevare

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must return beautiful, rich and loved? Well loved, for me, would had sufficed!

); Megan leaves always a bitter taste on my tongue, (Lavender

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dies, and the child is "sold out"; Janie refuses her humanity and becomes a Windsinger;

in Cut... we know what the granny must do to protege her granddaughter), but I like it.
Now I have at home The rendeering people: I'll hope to have more to say in a while.

Tintaglia, I edited your message a bit to hide the biggest spoilers. -- Mervi
Edited it again, I think the spoiler code plugin must have got broken/changed at some point. I'm truly sorry!