It’s also very tightly focused on the adventures, which will mark it down for some but up for those like me, and a lot of the resolutions come about due to Jirel’s sheer willpower rather than the might of her sword, which is nice. The writing’s decent, there’s a few good lines, the plot has a few twists, and the action and worldscapes are what makes this a cut above. Now, I will freely admit that weird violent adventures is a sweet spot of mine, so Jirel of Joiry would have to do some work for me to not enjoy it.
I’m sorry, did you miss the part where I said “Eowyn with a bad attitude invading worse acid trips”? The language is a little dated and some of the descriptive prose gets more than a bit dense, but for the most part this flows free and easy. It is perhaps closer to the mark to say that this is Eowyn with a bad attitude invading worse acid trips. The glib summation of this is “Female Conan”, but that misses some nuances to say the least. There were only six short stories written about her and the books are collections of some or all of them. What Jirel normally walked into was some horrific supernatural realm full of sinister eldritch types who, while occasionally fearful of her, mainly wanted to torment her in some way. Jirel of Joiry was a character who first appeared in Weird Tales, a formidable swordswoman and the lady of some mythical part of France, who acted like she walked right out of one of R.E. Welcome to the next installment in my Retro Reviews! If the limerick wasn’t enough of a clue, today’s book features a heroine straight from the lists of fantasy’s most bloody-handed and bloody-minded, and it is a delight to read. Who was one real tough sword-swinging belle,
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