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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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• ― nashiitashii said on Oct 25, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Excellent book. can't wait for sequel.

    

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• ― jackie said on Jan 20, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm. But en route to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldier-sorcerers from the northern woodlands. Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made of human bone, they wage a secret, ongoing war against the scourge of the "malices," immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving human and animal alike.

It is Dag—a Lakewalker patroller weighed down by past sorrows and onerous present responsibilities—who must come to Fawn's aid when she is taken captive by a malice. They prevail at a devastating cost—unexpectedly binding their fates as they embark upon a remarkable journey into danger and delight, prejudice and partnership . . . and perhaps even love.

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