screw you

I guess the problem is that it just such a big part of the middle three books. And she'd have interesting concepts like the ancestor thing, and then go an make them brutal and impossible to reason with savages in the end. It disappointed me mainly in context of the things that were handled more skillfully. She clearly set out to have the exotic locales and people as a mainstay of the series, so it bothers me that in large part it was done like that.