Kaede’s conflict with her father is that he wants her to make a political marriage, regardless of the gender of her partner. Even so, Lo maintains a realistic ratio of ‘straight’ to ‘gay’ couples in her society. Malinda Lo’s Ash and Huntress are set in societies where people are human with human failings, and yet same-sex marriage and LGBT lovers are accepted as normal. I wondered how you’d create a fictional utopian society, at least insofar as tolerance of sexual difference is concerned: it’s not like there is a non-fiction idyll to draw upon for inspiration. A convention panel in 2011 discussed representations of sexuality in fantasy, criticising George R.R. Kaede’s attraction to women sets her at odds with her father although not for the reasons one might expect. Three guards, Tali, Pol and Shae, accompany them on their journey north.īefore Kaede and Taisin are sent on their journey, Taisin has a vision revealing that she falls in love with Kaede Taisin struggles with this vision because she wants desperately to become a celibate sage.
Both are sent with Con, the crown prince, to visit the queen of the fae whose summons seems to coincide with a sickening of the world. Kaede and Taisin are two girls training to be sages, except Kaede has come to accept she will never graduate to become a sage. Huntress is a prequel to Ash, Malinda Lo‘s first novel, but set hundreds of years earlier.
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