Ahahaha! Actually I didn't do a Rape Watch for Maledicte because the book handled its sex and violence so well it just wasn't worth it. The Book of Words, however, is way up there - definitely registering high on the Goodkind Meter.

Mmm...it seems to me we may need to adapt the scale a bit because registering on the Goodkind scale can only be a bad thing (from what you've said about Goodkind), therefore we need to be able to appropriately score books that have sex and violence in them (as many fantasy books do) but do them well (which many fantasy books don't)

But since one would only apply the Goodkind meter to a book that *does* have sex and violence (which I'm getting sick of writing out in full - siolence? vex?) it strikes me that 0 ought to simply register as well handled sex and violence - i.e. as far as Goodkind as you can get.

I can potentially see how some people might be offended by a few features of Pirate Freedom - I could potentially imagine, for example, someone taking issue with Wolfe's views on child abuse on the Church (he thinks the Church should spend less time treating every priest as if they are a potential pedophile and more time teaching kids that the correct response to being felt up by an adult is punching, kicking, and yelling), or the treatment of Christopher being raped (I get the impression that he was traumatised by it, but hides it most of the time because it's a painful memory for him; other people may say "Hey, this guy writes about being raped as if it were like having your lunch money stolen!"), so I think 1 milliGoodkind is justified; I think he handles the issues in question perfectly well, but I'm well aware that a few people might disagree.