Connavar, how can you say this when you haven't read anything like a fair sampling?
Ironically, there are plenty of readers who are firmly convinced that Robin Hobb is a male until somebody tells them otherwise. I wonder if this is due to her style of writing (which is, interestingly enough, a lot more gritty and tough than Megan Lindholm's) or because nobody names their daughters Robin anymore? When I was growing up, it was a name far more often bestowed on girls, at least in this part of the US, so my first reaction when hearing the name was to ask "Male or female?" But I've met many, many people who automatically assume male.
