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Passage (The Sharing Knife #3)

by Lois McMaster Bujold, Bernadette Dunne (Read by)

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"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." "But th...more

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Apr 14, 2009

Lightreads rated it

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Shelves: disability, fantasy, fiction, romance

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:

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...more

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May 01, 2008

Rachel rated it

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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...more

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Aug 16, 2008

Jeffrey rated it

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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 Mali...more

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Feb 07, 2009

Valerie rated it

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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.

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Nov 04, 2009

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"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).[re...more

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Jan 21, 2009

Brownbetty rated it

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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 ...more

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Sep 13, 2011

Brie rated it

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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

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Mar 28, 2011

Books-treasureortrash rated it

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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 figh...moreBook Review: 2 Treasure Boxes

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 evil people and helping others on their trek. This book takes place immediately following Legacy.

Lois McMaster Bujold has written numerous Science Fiction and Fantasy books and series including The Vorkosigan Saga, The Chalion Universe Series and the The Sharing Knife Series. Passage is the third book in The Sharing Knife Series which has a total of four books. These books fall into the Fantasy genre but can also be considered a Romance since it revolves around a love story. There is magic in this universe that is welded by the Lakewakers and it takes place in a society that is equivalent to ours in the early 19th century. It occurs after the fall of a greater society that was destroyed by the creation of evil creatures known as Malices. In this world the Lakewalkers serve by destroying these creatures as they continue to randomly pop up. The story is told in a third person narrative by the two main protagonists Dag, the Lakewalker and Fawn, the Farmer girl.

Our protagonists have gone on a voluntary exile from Dag's family and community. They knew it was either that or face being told to leave. Together they decided it would be best to be out on their own and in the process start to breach the distance between the Lakewalkers and the Farmers. There was not as much excitement in this book as in the previous two books. There were no conflicts against malices, but there was trouble against people including bandits and renegade Lakewalkers. Dag was given the opportunity to learn more about his magic and we understand more about how it works. This book showed much more depth into the characters and how this world works.

I thought it was really interesting how Dag's healing abilities worked. It showed how this is a great attraction for those who need it, but it also showed what the ill effects of using it can be. Once again clarifying that there is always a price. This also gave insight into how and why the old world was destroyed. The two start out on their journey alone, but by the end they have accumulated a number of people that travel with them. Effectively creating their own mobile village which is comprised of an amalgamation of different peoples. This is a reflection of who they are and what they are trying to accomplish which is to bring the world together.

I highly recommend this series. If you enjoy reading a good, original fantasy story that revolves around a romance then you will enjoy this book. This is a stand alone book, but you will enjoy it more if you read the books in order as the story builds from book to book.

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Jan 10, 2011

Scott Marlowe rated it

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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 acce...morePassage 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 another level it is a matter of long term survival for all. Because there is little communication between Lakewalker and farmer, the scourge of their land, called malices, could potentially run rampant someday because farmers remain ignorant of the early warning signs. It is with the intention of educating farmers of the malice danger that Dag sets out from his home with his wife, Fawn.

They hire themselves out to a flatboat boss, Berry, and Dag begins his journey of farmer healing and enlightenment. They are joined by two other Lakewalkers and a motley lot of farmers/riverboat-types who are drawn to Dag and Fawn's mission in their own individual ways. Much of the story focuses on this personal quest of Dag's and how, in the process, he also develops his 'ground' (magic) to a level not hereto seen in the world.

That bears some explanation: in Lakewalker society an individual is chosen early on for a specific vocation based upon the promise of their ground. Such vocations include patroller, medicine-maker, ground-setter. The principal responsibility of the Lakewalkers is patrolling the lands in search of malice; most Lakewalkers are selected as patrollers. But some others who demonstrate a greater degree of 'groundsense' may become medicine-makers or, even further, ground-setters, able to manipulate almost any material. Dag has already spent most of his life as a patroller by the time we meet him in Beguilement. In Passage, he begins to experiment with his groundsense and, aided by Fawn's knack for seeing things from her own unique perspective, finds that he has the ability to bridge the gap between patroller, medicine-maker, and ground-setter.

Passage is a good book. It's well-written, flows evenly, and possesses a myriad of interesting yet believable characters. But it also stumbles a bit in its singular purpose. Dag's quest is fun to follow, but it becomes too much of the story or, really, the entire story. Not until the end, when Dag must face a renegade Lakewalker and the mayhem he's caused, does the storyline break away into new territory. In short, I felt Passage would have benefited from a bit more going on. There is some mystery in the form of Boatboss Berry, whose family has disappeared somewhere downriver, but it's not enough.

In summary, once again Bujold doesn't disappoint in delivering a folksy tale with plenty of interesting and intriguing characters and magic, though, in the end, this one could have used an injection of something more. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the conclusion of Dag and Fawn's journey in book four, Horizon.

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Aug 07, 2009

Dlora rated it

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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

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Dec 08, 2010

Sue Smith rated it

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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 foll...more

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Mar 04, 2010

Roger Loran Bailey rated it

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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

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Aug 10, 2011

Dani rated it

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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 whenev...moreI’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 starts to talk I find my eyes have rolled across the living room floor and I get a break from reading this mess to go pick them up again. It’s like she’s there just to remind readers of facts they forgot:
“But Dag didn’t you say _________.”
“Oh that’s right Spark!”
-Problem Solved-
And oops my eyes rolled away on me again.

I don’t feel driven by the main save-the-whole-world-with-love-and-understanding plot because it’s just not that interesting. It’s an old man whining “why can’t we all just be friends?”. I found the other characters more interesting but even they fell flat along the way. I’m not sure what it is but I found the only good part of this book started way too late. Not only that, but the book drags on at the end.

It wasn’t as bad as some of the books I’ve read this year but it won’t be anything I’ll remember either. I wish I had’ve picked up a different book by Bujold first because reading these ones have sort of turned me off her. It’s sad because when the series first started and Fawn was pregnant two options opened up to me:

“Wow” I thought. “It’s not normal someone gives their main character a handicap like this at the beginning of a book. Hmm. . . Most people don’t do this. Ok there are two ways this will turn out,
1. She’ll actually be a pregnant main character. Or…
2. She’ll lose the baby.”

I read through more of the book.

“And of course she loses the baby. How tragic, a thing I wasn’t attached to and neither was the main character, is gone and no longer a burden. Ho hum… all that potential gone.”

And those thoughts, the ones I had at the very beginning of the book about Fawn’s baby, those apply to this entire series. Ho Hum so much wasted potential.(less)

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Feb 11, 2010

Lighthearted rated it

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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 h...more

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Jun 14, 2008

Grillables rated it

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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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Mar 10, 2010

Kristen rated it

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Jan 26, 2009

Kris rated it

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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 in...more

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Jan 09, 2012

Nicholas Whyte rated it

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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 ...more

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Oct 18, 2011

Robert rated it

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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" r...more

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May 04, 2009

Dana rated it

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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

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Jan 25, 2009

Krissie rated it

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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 wh...more

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Oct 10, 2010

Rebecca Huston rated it

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The story of Dag and Fawn continues in this third volume, with plenty of action, new characters, and a trip by flatboat. As always, Ms. Bujold's writing is spot on and makes for a terrific read. What I really like about this series is that neither Dag nor Fawn really fit the stereotype of the perfect hero or heroine, but are very human, and so, much more interesting to read about.

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Jul 30, 2010

Sarah rated it

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This book was better than Volume Two, but it certainly was not anything more than extremely average for the genre, and it has some gender issues I find troubling.

Part of the problem is that I'm rather disappointed in LMB's choice of female protagonist (Fawn), and Fawn's relationship with the male protagonist (Dag). After the kick-ass female characters like Cordelia Naismith and Elli Quinn from the Vorkosigan books, having a young, helpless, domestic character like Fawn is more than a...more

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Feb 17, 2011

Hirondelle rated it

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This is so slow it took me 2 years to finish it. But still it was worth it and interesting (to me), and so far my favorite of this series. What I did not like:

- it is slow. Seriously.
- The dystopia. And small (though getting larger in this book) universe just gives me claustrophobia.
- main characters are so lovey-dovey in love, impossibly wise and unnaturally powerful.
- and seriously, I want to know what happens to baby raccoon. It disappeared from narrative, and ye...more

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Jan 29, 2010

Margaret rated it

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Jo Walton had an interesting post on Tor.com a couple of weeks ago, about types of series, which helped crystallize some of my thoughts on why this series didn't quite work for me. It seems as though it's meant to be a series like The Lord of the Rings, which is essentially one book broken up into separate parts for publishing; in fact, if I recall correctly, the first two books of The Sharing Knife were presented as one book broken up. However, the overall feel of the series is more like what W...moreJo Walton had an interesting post on Tor.com a couple of weeks ago, about types of series, which helped crystallize some of my thoughts on why this series didn't quite work for me. It seems as though it's meant to be a series like The Lord of the Rings, which is essentially one book broken up into separate parts for publishing; in fact, if I recall correctly, the first two books of The Sharing Knife were presented as one book broken up. However, the overall feel of the series is more like what Walton calls "style two", in which there is an overarching story arc to the series, but each volume has its own story arc and closure. The problem I had is that each volume doesn't have quite enough story arc and closure; there's all too much journeying and too little action.

My other major problem were the characters, especially Dag and Fawn, the two main characters. They're from two different cultures, and essentially the books are about how they first fall in love and become a couple, and then how they start to reconcile their separate cultures. But I found both of them too perfect to be truly interesting after the initial romance part: Dag is too noble, Fawn is too cleverly intuitive, always coming up with exactly the right suggestion. I felt as though they needed some balancing imperfections to make them more real (as Miles Vorkosigan feels real: brilliant, but with serious challenges). There's insufficient cost for the resolution to feel satisfying; nobody really loses much, and I never felt as though anyone was in real danger (again unlike the Vorkosigan books).

What I did love was the worldbuilding, which is always one of Bujold's strengths. Here she gives us a frontier setting, like the American Wild West, where Dag's people are those who live with the land while Fawn's people are farmers. The magic is nature magic, the enemies (the malices) are like primeval, malevolent forces of nature. Interestingly, there are hints that the world itself developed from a more classically fantasy world, with kings and nobility.

I don't want to be too negative here, because I did enjoy the books, or I wouldn't have read all four of them, and I really loved the world. I just don't think they're Bujold's best work, though I'd love to see her return to the world and do something else there.(less)

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Aug 29, 2008

Res rated it

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The one where Dag, more or less banished by his Lakewalker family, takes Fern and her brother Whit on a trip downriver.

I'm enjoying these books more as the series continues and the romance takes a backseat. Here we don't even have a malice to contend with, just the knotty issues of the relationships between farmers and Lakewalkers, and deeper explorations of capabilities that even Lakewalkers don't understand.

I'm enjoying the hints of history we're getting; there's a trad...more

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Jul 10, 2008

Rebecca rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okay, so this is the third book in a four-book series (fourth isn't out yet). It's also fantasy romance -- to the point where people on the Bujold mailing list make a game of guessing whether reviewers are fantasy fen or romance fen by how the reviews read. And, I like it -- enough to have books 2 and 3 in hardcover.

So, I'm going to try not to spoil books 1 and 2 for this. The book has kind of a post-apocalyptic fantasy feel to it. Dag, Male Main Character, is a member of a group of pe...moreOkay, so this is the third book in a four-book series (fourth isn't out yet). It's also fantasy romance -- to the point where people on the Bujold mailing list make a game of guessing whether reviewers are fantasy fen or romance fen by how the reviews read. And, I like it -- enough to have books 2 and 3 in hardcover.

So, I'm going to try not to spoil books 1 and 2 for this. The book has kind of a post-apocalyptic fantasy feel to it. Dag, Male Main Character, is a member of a group of people called Lakewalkers, who use their magic to kill monsters called malices that would otherwise suck dry all of the life force on the continent. (They are also descended from a group of mage-kings who used to run the area and caused the malices to come into being, so it's sort of an ancestral guilt thing.) Fawn, Female Main Character, is a Farmer (non-magic settler in the area) who, at the start of the book, is running away from home thanks to getting knocked up out of wedlock. Fawn happens to get kidnapped by a malice's goons, and Dag is present to help save her -- though Fawn is actually the one who delivers the final blow to the malice. Since this is a romance, they end up falling in love -- which creates problems, since Lakewalkers and Farmers don't trust each other, and barely interact. Dag's people are unhappy, Fawn's people are unhappy -- we have conflict (you know, besides the malices who will eat the world).

Now, this could turn predictable, but Bujold uses Dag and Fawn's romance to explore how the Lakewalkers and Farmer interact. And it isn't simple -- by Book 3, Dag and Fawn are out to find a way to bring their two cultures together, since the other two models (avoid each other, and have mages rule non-mages) don't seem to work. Dag also promised Fawn a trip to see the ocean, so they are heading down the river by boat. The geography is similar to the Great Lakes/Southeast US -- Bujold has a history of doing that with her fantasy -- so you can imagine the two of them heading down the Ohio/Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By Book 3, Dag and Fawn are comfortable in their relationship -- which makes me squee.

Overall, this series does a bit better than the other series I'm reviewing. I could get a sense of both Dag and Fawn as characters and how their relationship grew. Also both of them had problems and brought things to the relationship -- both characters had family issues, Fawn had the twit of the guy who got her pregnant (who she had a crush on, but he was just interested in an easy lay), and Dag was a widower (his wife was killed by malices -- he also lost an arm in this). Having both characters POVs let me see the other from their eyes, which was nice. It also helped that both Dag and Fawn related to the other people on the boat -- Fawn's brother, Whit, the boat captain, a couple of stray Lakewalkers they picked up. A friend of mine commented that calling it a romance was overly simplistic -- it is a book about relationships, and not just Dag/Fawn.

So, yeah, I like this series, and can't wait to see how it concludes. (less)

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May 30, 2008

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This is the third book in the Sharing Knife series. I think (hope) there's one more to come. In this book, Fawn and Dag are trekking south away from his home Lakewalker camp again. They have been essentially kicked out of the camp, but not exactly exiled. They just didn't approve of his marriage, and Dag wouldn't abandon Fawn. The malice attack in LEGACY was so disastrous because farmers didn't know anything about malices--how to recognize one or what to do when the signs of a malice appear--Dag...more

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May 16, 2008

Ruth rated it

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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.

Starting this book without reading the first two really would be stepping in the middle of the story; those books explain the deadly, almost silent battle Dag's Lakewalker kin have been fighting for over a thousand years, and the reason why Fawn's farmer people look on their mixed marriage with suspic...more

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Jul 17, 2008

Trin rated it

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A much more engaging and fulfilling installment than the last book in the series, Legacy. I enjoyed seeing Dag and Fawn’s quest to better integrate the Lakewalker and Farmer societies take shape; I liked the reintroduction of Fawn’s brother, Whit; and I loved when the story became a river narrative, a kind of Huckleberry Finn with magic.

I hope there’s another volume; I’m still not convinced that Dag isn’t getting into something dark and dangerous and way over his head, and that Faw...more

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“For Berry, you just be there, Whit. Be the one person in the wide green world she doesn't have to explain it to, because you were there and saw it all for yourself. Hand her a clean cloth if she cries or bleeds, and some warm thing for the pain that doubles her over. The time to hold her will come. This day isn't over yet.” — 4 people liked it

“The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.” — 1 person liked it

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