I'm sort of ambivalent towards Rowan. While I like her as a character, I too find it hard to warm to her - I'm not sure I think her insensitive or judegemtnal, but certainly brusque and ever truthful, even if it does hurt. I think that if I were in the Trennels/Kingscote world, I'd like Miranda and Jan and Ginty among others, but I doubt I'd like Rowan much, even if she were my sister. She certainly wouldn';t be someone to whom I went for comfort if I were upset, though I might go to her for clear-eyed advice.
Basically, she does have many admirable traits, and is a good character in the novels, but she's got a very hard shell, which we only once get through, I'd say, at the end of Run Away Home. But perhaps that's because of being stuck with the family firm at what is really a very young age.
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Date: 2006-01-26 07:29 pm (UTC)Basically, she does have many admirable traits, and is a good character in the novels, but she's got a very hard shell, which we only once get through, I'd say, at the end of Run Away Home. But perhaps that's because of being stuck with the family firm at what is really a very young age.