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Passage (The Sharing Knife #3)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Lois McMaster Bujold--five-time winner of the Hugo Award--brings us the third installment in her New York Times bestselling romantic fantasy
The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage
Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their...more
The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage
Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their...more
Hardcover, 437 pages
Published
April 22nd 2008
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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?
Wait, no, I'm being cheap. See, here's the thing:
Putting aside that this is an incredibly disingenuous thing for Dag t...more
Wait, no, I'm being cheap. See, here's the thing:
Dag said more slowly, "He was just an ordinary patroller, before his knife got broken. But if ordinary folks can't fix the world, it's not going to get fixed. There are no lords here. The gods are absent."
Putting aside that this is an incredibly disingenuous thing for Dag t...more
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 center of it, but rather than telling their story, this book starts to show how they can change the world around them. Over the course of the story, they start to build something new; a nomadic group of m...more
Aug 16, 2008
Jeffrey
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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. The Malices are demons/aliens who kill and enslave people and grow and grow eating people's souls. The Malices cannot be killed by ordinary humans. The Lakewalkers discovered that if you stab a Malice wi...more
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.
"I enjoyed Passage as much as I did Beguilement, and even more than Legacy. Of course, I do like a good ""road trip"" 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 life to be fairly accurate - it was certainly fascinating to me. I also enjoyed the continued development of Dag's abilities, and experimentation with them (complete with bad ideas and consequences).[return][return]It's also gr...more
I keep on reading Bujold's Sharing Knife books, because I keep on expecting Bujold to suddenly stop sucking and go back to being awesome.
This is not the book in which she does that, and yet...
To be honest, the problem with these books is not that they're bad, but rather that they're by Bujold, and they're not very good. I described them to Karen H. as a good book to take along on a long bus ride if you wanted to get your knitting done. However, I think if you took this book on a long bus ride, y...more
This is not the book in which she does that, and yet...
To be honest, the problem with these books is not that they're bad, but rather that they're by Bujold, and they're not very good. I described them to Karen H. as a good book to take along on a long bus ride if you wanted to get your knitting done. However, I think if you took this book on a long bus ride, y...more
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Passage is the third book in the expected four book series (Horizon is out in hardcover as I write this and is supposed to be the conclusion). It picks up where Legacy left off; Dag and Fawn are on their way south after being turned out from Dag's home Lakewalker camp for marrying a farmer girl. The first stop is Fawn's family farm. The Bluefield's aren't much more accepting although a few members of the family are glad to see them.
Fawn's brother Whit ends up tagging along as they continue sout...more
Fawn's brother Whit ends up tagging along as they continue sout...more
This is the third book in The Sharing Knife series, and the first thing you should know is that these books are not self-contained. In fact, I read the four volumes of The Sharing Knife was intended as one novel, but was split up because of the length. So what we have is the middle part of a novel, perhaps the least action filled, with the young Fawn the farmer and her quite older Lakewaker husband settling into their relationship and with Fawn's brother along for the ride as they travel downriv...more
So far I think this is the least solid novel in this series. While Bujold does a great job of integrating back story and world-building into the story, this is a bad novel to start with in the series because if you haven't become invested in the characters by following their adventures with the first two novels, I doubt you'll be swept up in the story enough to want to finish this one.
That said, I don't think this is a bad novel, because I was invested in the characters and did want to finish th...more
That said, I don't think this is a bad novel, because I was invested in the characters and did want to finish th...more
The third adventure for Dag and Fawn in the Sharing Knife sequence. Like the other two this doesn’t rocket along, but it’s rich in detail and character development and has a lot of charm. Dag, a Lakewalker, and Fawn, a farmer, marry against the will of both their families. Eventually Fawn’s farming family sees sense, but the Lakewalkers are so intransigent in their refusal to accept Fawn that Dag resigns as a patroller and leaves his kinfolk and his dangerous life hunting killing supernatural ‘m...more
Passage was a great follow up to both Beguilement and Legacy. Dag and Fawn's journey is entertaining and eye opening. The world building is nothing short of awesome. The Lakewalker mythology, while very intricate, is completely understandable and the writing is simply enchanting. The relationship between Dag and Fawn continues to evolve as they settle into married life, though much of the romance is put on the backburner in this story and it focuses more on Farmer/Lakewalker relations. Prejudice...more
Mar 28, 2011
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Do you want to read about two far-sighted individuals who want to improve the world? Then you should give this story a try, it is a journey both literally, from far inland all the way to the sea and spiritually, as the couple try to gap the great gulf between their two peoples. Dag, the magic wielding Lakewalker and his young bride the Farmer-girl Fawn continue their story with plenty of adventures, but instead of fighting malices, they are this time fighting against...more
Do you want to read about two far-sighted individuals who want to improve the world? Then you should give this story a try, it is a journey both literally, from far inland all the way to the sea and spiritually, as the couple try to gap the great gulf between their two peoples. Dag, the magic wielding Lakewalker and his young bride the Farmer-girl Fawn continue their story with plenty of adventures, but instead of fighting malices, they are this time fighting against...more
Passage is the third book in Bujold's Sharing Knife series. It is a continuation of the story begun in Beguilement and Legacy. In Legacy, Dag and Fawn come face-to-face with the bigotry of Dag's Lakewalker clan. Near driven out, Dag chooses to leave instead. But he does so with a mission in mind: to heal the rift between Lakewalker and farmer.
On one level this mission of Dag's is a personal one: acceptance of each of the peoples amongst the other would grant his marriage a greater acceptance. On...more
On one level this mission of Dag's is a personal one: acceptance of each of the peoples amongst the other would grant his marriage a greater acceptance. On...more
I really, really like anything Bujold has written from her science fiction soap operas to her magical medieval histories to this fantasy series that is loosely reminiscent of the interface between pioneers and Indians with a dash of supernatural evil demons thrown in. I think I like her writing so much because her characters are strong, good-hearted, self-sacrificing, loving people taking on difficult tasks because it is the right thing to do. In Passage the third book in Bujold's Sharing Knife...more
With this book being the third so far in a series, you expect it to be a continuation of the story and characters you've grown to know from the previous adventures. This one definitely is that and is once again up to the standards that you come to expect after you've read the first book. I enjoyed the characters and their new adventure into uncharted grounds for each. The story was quick paced and had lots of different action not seen before but with lots of room for off shoot stories to follow....more
I generally prefer science fiction to fantasy because as a philosophical materialist I am perpetually exasperated by the idealist propensity to take the supernatural seriously. Nevertheless, I do like fantasy because it usually makes no pretense that the integral supernatural aspects of it are anything but make-believe. Occult and rreligious works, though, which try to pass off the supernatural as real are exasperating indeed. This book is a fantasy that has an aspect to it that I as a philosoph...more
4.5 stars. In this third installment of the Sharing Knife series, we discover that malices aren't the only threat to the denizens of the wide green world. This book takes a break from the Lakewalker-Malice war, but we are treated to a quaint little tale of Dag and Fawn journeying down a river in a flatboat encountering adventure and a multitude of dangers and obstacles along the way. I loved the story as well as the setting and atmosphere for most of this novel, so vivid that I could picture eve...more
I’m not really sure what to say about this book. It was so. . . flat. No character seems to read like they should. Dag does not read like he is mature and upwards of 50 years old (or whatever ridiculously age he was given when Bujold wanted to write about a Pedophile. And all I can think of is Dag yelling at his friends “She was 18 dude it was all LEGAL!”) while Fawn doesn’t read like she has much of a personality beyond supporting Dag.
Maybe I just don’t like her very much but whenever Fawn star...more
Maybe I just don’t like her very much but whenever Fawn star...more
This is the first book in the Sharing Knife series that feels like a Bujold book. Parts of the writing still feel clunky. Fawn, at age 19, is still the wisest character in the book. But, for the first time, the story seems to be really going somewhere. Fawn and Dag take a trip on a river boat, headed South. Along the way they pick up a lot of side characters, taking the story from the Fawn & Dag show towards more of an ensemble story.
As the characters travel and move through the world, they...more
As much as he values his position as patroller, Dag sees another purpose for his future. His people are not willing to accept Fawn as his wife and that is only part of the problem—they also refuse to accept that a more trusting, cooperative relationship is needed between farmers and Lakewalkers. He decides to leave his people, find a place where his marriage to Fawn will be accepted, and do his best to improve relations between farmers and Lakewalkers. He also hopes to gain understanding of his...more
I generally love Bujold, but this series just isn't for me. In this third book of the series, the pacing is slow, the protagonist can do no wrong, and the lovey-dovey bits make me wince. On the other hand, the characterizations are generally very fine (as always with Bujold). One more in the series to go, and then hopefully she'll be on to things that I find more appealing.
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Book three in the Sharing Knife series expands the world quite a bit, as Dag and Fawn journey from his home all the way to the sea. If parts of the story feel like Mississippi river stores, well, they should. The author even admits basing the geography on the Ohio, Wabash and Mississippi rivers (called the Grace, Beargrass and Gray in the book), and the town at the mouth of the Gray sure sounds a lot like the location of New Orleans. There are several new characters introduced and a lot of infor...more
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Somehow several years have passed since I read the first two books in this series, so a lot more time has passed for me than for the characters. But it is relatively self-contained; our newlywed heroes, Fawn and Dag, travel down river and further explore the nature of the powers shared by Dag and his people, while also delving a bit further into human nature and the relationships between two groups of people who have been brought up to regard each other wi...more
Somehow several years have passed since I read the first two books in this series, so a lot more time has passed for me than for the characters. But it is relatively self-contained; our newlywed heroes, Fawn and Dag, travel down river and further explore the nature of the powers shared by Dag and his people, while also delving a bit further into human nature and the relationships between two groups of people who have been brought up to regard each other wi...more
Continuing the story of Fawn and Dag, now unwelcome in both of their homelands, they head down the river so that Dag can show Fawn the sea. Their party grows with each stop and Dag and Fawn search for a solution that will allow Lakewalkers and Farmers to live together in harmony.
Why I picked it up: This is a slow moving story, but it still engrossing and after two books, I've fallen in love with the characters and their world.
Why I finished it: I am routing just as hard as Fawn and Dag to find a...more
Why I picked it up: This is a slow moving story, but it still engrossing and after two books, I've fallen in love with the characters and their world.
Why I finished it: I am routing just as hard as Fawn and Dag to find a...more
I haven't finished this one yet, but so far it stands up with its predecessors, Beguilement and Legacy. Being Australian, I find the name "Dag" somewhat unfortunate - I know one head of the UN was called Dag, but there is no suggestion that this Dag is Scandinavian and it does not have nice associations in the Antipodes.
Anyway, Dag and Fawn, having fallen out with Dag's people set off on a quest to convince the farmers that "malices" or "blight bogles" really exist and how to tell. They have als...more
Anyway, Dag and Fawn, having fallen out with Dag's people set off on a quest to convince the farmers that "malices" or "blight bogles" really exist and how to tell. They have als...more
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 like some of the side characters that were introduced here. Dag exploring his abilities was also interesting. Even though I didn’t like this installment as much as the first two I’ll still be reading t...more
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 and all that jazz. I won't babble on and on, though; it sort of got me to think about in the back of my head where I'm not paying attention about a lot of things that are more important than just what...more
I am not gonna lie, this series is not for everyone. It's long and mostly boring as far as pacing but the characters feel like old friends telling me about their lives. I love Dag and Fawn. Which is quite necessary to stomach their May/December love -- is in his mid fifties while Fawn is only eighteen. I usually barf at an age difference this extreme but these two have grown on me. I just can't think of Dag as a pedophile although some other characters are put off by the marriage.
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One of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold burst on to the scene in 1986 with Shards of Honor, the first of her tremendously popular Vorkosigan Saga novels. She has received numerous accolades and prizes, including two Nebula Awards for Best Novel (Falling Free and Paladin of Souls), four Hugo Awards for Best Novel (Paladin of Souls, The Vor Game, B...more
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