Marya reviewed Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Review of 'Daughter of the Forest' on 'Goodreads'
This is very satisfying for the kind of thing it is, and did not piss me off either as a feminist or (much) as an oh-god-not-another-anachronistic-Mary Sue-tomboy-everyone-loves hater. And it's very readable, and the romance doesn't whack you over the head till the very end.
That sounds like a list of relative virtues, but really, I have a hard time reading fantasy at all lately because of this sort of problem.