The Dragon Keeper "Controversial?" Hobb and sexuality. *Major Spoilers up to RWC!

['thul]

It is nice to see authors including such occurrences in the books... Some authors represent such issues in covert ways, and that too works... one example (fairly off topic), is the TV series "True blood" where the issue of homosexual rights is represented in the form of "vampire rights" many of the arguments and such against homosexuality, are simply converted to being against vampires... (i.e. "god hates fags" = "god hates fangs")

In many ways, the fantasy genre is a very classical form, with a prevalence of the "true love", especially in High Fantasy. The act of blurring those edges is very nice, even if 'thul prefers heterosexuality. (in a mild way, if two people of the same gender wishes to mate or whatever, then why stop them?)

There have been other occurrences of semi-homosexuality in the RotE books, but 'thul forgets when exactly (or possibly mix it up with another unnamed series...)