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Beguilement

(The Sharing Knife, Vol. 1)

By Lois McMaster Bujold

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| Hardcover | 9780061137587

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Young Fawn Bluefield has fled her family's farm hop-ing to find work in the city of Glassforge. Uncertain about her future and the troubles she carries, Fawn stops for a drink of water at a roadside inn, where she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, enigmatic soldier-sorcerers from the woodland Continue

Young Fawn Bluefield has fled her family's farm hop-ing to find work in the city of Glassforge. Uncertain about her future and the troubles she carries, Fawn stops for a drink of water at a roadside inn, where she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, enigmatic soldier-sorcerers from the woodland culture to the north. Fawn knows the stories about the Lake-walkers: they are necromancers; they practice black sorcery; they have no permanent homes and own only the clothes they wear and the weapons-;mysterious knives made of human bone-;they carry. What she does not know is that the Lakewalkers, as a whole, are engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as “malices,” creatures that suck the life out of all they encounter, and turn men and animals into their minions.

Dag is an older Lakewalker patroller who carries his past sorrows as heavily as his present respon-sibilities. When Fawn is kidnapped by the malice Dag's patrol is tracking, Dag races to rescue her. But in the ensuing struggle, it is not Dag but Fawn who kills the creature-;at dire cost-;and an uncanny accident befalls Dag's sharing knife, which unex-pectedly binds their two fates together.

And so now the misenchanted knife must be returned to the Lakewalkers. Together, Fawn and Dag set out on the long road back to his camp. But on the journey this unlikely pair will encounter danger and delight, prejudice and partnership, and maybe even love. . . .

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    The plot wasn't bad, but, like a lot of female fantasy writers, she got caught up in details and had to add things like the "feminist sexual epiphany" scene and spent the last few chapters on them getting married. I'm going to move on to the sequel to this book and, according to my FH, the marriage ... (continue)

    The plot wasn't bad, but, like a lot of female fantasy writers, she got caught up in details and had to add things like the "feminist sexual epiphany" scene and spent the last few chapters on them getting married. I'm going to move on to the sequel to this book and, according to my FH, the marriage is an important part of the continuing storyline. Looks like it, but they spend a LOT of time on it in this book.

    Also, I giggled at the "OMG, she touched my boner" scenes toward the beginning. Heh. How on earth did this turn into a quasi-romance novel?

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