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    <![CDATA[<p> Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Lois McMaster Bujold&#8212;five-time winner of the Hugo Award&#8212;brings us the third installment in her <em>New York Times</em> bestselling romantic fantasy </p> <p> <em>The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage</em> </p> <p> Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples. </p> <p> But they will not journey alone. Along the way they acquire comrades, starting with Fawn's irrepressible brother Whit, whose future on the Bluefield family farm seems as hopeless as Fawn's once did. Planning to seek passage on a riverboat heading to the sea, Dag and Fawn find themselves allied with a young flatboat captain searching for her father and fiancé, who mysteriously vanished on the river nearly a year earlier. They travel downstream, hoping to find word of the missing men, and inadvertently pick up more followers: a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers running away from an honest mistake with catastrophic consequences; a shrewd backwoods hunter stranded in a wreck of boats and hopes; and a farmer boy Dag unintentionally beguiles, leaving Dag with more questions than answers about his growing magery. </p> <p> As the ill-assorted crew is tested and tempered on its journey to where great rivers join, Fawn and Dag will discover surprising new abilities both Lakewalker and farmer, a growing understanding of the bonds between themselves and their kinfolk, and a new world of hazards both human and uncanny. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book three in this romance-fantasy quartet with the cross-cultural marriage. Okay, maybe . . . maybe there's a reason you don't see much midwestern-influenced fantasy out there?<br/><br/>Wait, no, I'm being cheap. See, here's the thing:<br/><br/><blockquote>Dag said more slowly, &quot;He was just an ordinar...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52709410">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This books continues the story of Dag and Fawn; they're married and have essentially been kicked out of Dag's home, and are heading into the great wild world to see the sea, and maybe to find something to do with their lives.  The focus of this book changes a bit... Dag and Fawn are still at the cen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21419550">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Lois McMaster Bujold&#8212;five-time winner of the Hugo Award&#8212;brings us the third installment in her <em>New York Times</em> bestselling romantic fantasy </p> <p> <em>The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage</em> </p> <p> Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples. </p> <p> But they will not journey alone. Along the way they acquire comrades, starting with Fawn's irrepressible brother Whit, whose future on the Bluefield family farm seems as hopeless as Fawn's once did. Planning to seek passage on a riverboat heading to the sea, Dag and Fawn find themselves allied with a young flatboat captain searching for her father and fiancé, who mysteriously vanished on the river nearly a year earlier. They travel downstream, hoping to find word of the missing men, and inadvertently pick up more followers: a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers running away from an honest mistake with catastrophic consequences; a shrewd backwoods hunter stranded in a wreck of boats and hopes; and a farmer boy Dag unintentionally beguiles, leaving Dag with more questions than answers about his growing magery. </p> <p> As the ill-assorted crew is tested and tempered on its journey to where great rivers join, Fawn and Dag will discover surprising new abilities both Lakewalker and farmer, a growing understanding of the bonds between themselves and their kinfolk, and a new world of hazards both human and uncanny. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[THis is the third book in Bujold's Dag and Fawn series and to my mind the best.  Bujold is a fine writer and she has created a very interesting world. Dag is a Lakewalker exile and Fawn is his farmer wife.  In earlier volumes in this series we learned that Lakewalkers,  are hunters of evil Malices. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20770535">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers with their passionate hearts strong and united. The bigotry of blood kin, however, cannot be easily overcome. Leaving behind all that they have ever known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples—but their passage will not be ventured alone. New companions join them on their road: Fawn's brother, Whit, escaping a hopeless future on the family farm; a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers fleeing the catastrophic consequences of an honest mistake; a young flatboat captain searching for her vanished father and fiancé; a shrewd backwoods hunter; and a farmer boy unintentionally beguiled by Dag's growing magery. On an eventful journey to where great rivers join, the ill-assorted crew will be sorely tested and tempered, as they encounter a new world of hazards both human and uncanny. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was better than the second one, I felt the characters and background  were more interesting.  The research that went into the river boats was fascinating, and I enjoyed the author's note on her sources.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Lois McMaster Bujold&#8212;five-time winner of the Hugo Award&#8212;brings us the third installment in her <em>New York Times</em> bestselling romantic fantasy </p> <p> <em>The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage</em> </p> <p> Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples. </p> <p> But they will not journey alone. Along the way they acquire comrades, starting with Fawn's irrepressible brother Whit, whose future on the Bluefield family farm seems as hopeless as Fawn's once did. Planning to seek passage on a riverboat heading to the sea, Dag and Fawn find themselves allied with a young flatboat captain searching for her father and fiancé, who mysteriously vanished on the river nearly a year earlier. They travel downstream, hoping to find word of the missing men, and inadvertently pick up more followers: a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers running away from an honest mistake with catastrophic consequences; a shrewd backwoods hunter stranded in a wreck of boats and hopes; and a farmer boy Dag unintentionally beguiles, leaving Dag with more questions than answers about his growing magery. </p> <p> As the ill-assorted crew is tested and tempered on its journey to where great rivers join, Fawn and Dag will discover surprising new abilities both Lakewalker and farmer, a growing understanding of the bonds between themselves and their kinfolk, and a new world of hazards both human and uncanny. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I enjoyed Passage as much as I did Beguilement, and even more than Legacy. Of course, I do like a good &quot;&quot;road trip&quot;&quot; story, even when the road trip is actually a river trip.[return][return]Even though Passage is fantasy, I imagine that the account of pre-industrial river li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76724359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Passage is the third book in the Sharing Knife series. Maybe my interest in this series is waning because it took me forever to get into this one. I found the first 2/3ds of the book to be really slow. The action did eventually kick in and I couldn’t put the book down for the last 100 pages. I did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54980851">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The jacket said something about this being a romance, but it was way more than that.  And it didn't have any of those overly graphic sex scenes that romances stereotypically have.  It was about exploration and growing up and changing society and changing people and changing the self and human nature...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44292341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The ongoing adventures of Dag and Fawn as Dag tries to single-handedly (heh!!) find the answers to the problems of his world, and Fawn tries to keep her husband from overworking himself.<br/><br/>Starting this book without reading the first two really would be stepping in the middle of the story; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16123065">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful and funny third book in what promises to be a four book series. The action plays second fiddle to the characters of Fawn and Dag, as is usual for this series. (I'd call it romantic fantasy, but it's a much stronger offering than many books from that genre.)<br/><br/>In this third insta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21144380">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A refreshing back to basics book. Overt romance is shelved for a simple story in which many characters, each with their own goals, manage to meet each other with the purpose of traveling down the river to the sea. Magic is a great part of the book as well as the continuing theme of cultures meeting....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52466148">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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