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  <title><![CDATA[Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>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 &quot;malices&quot;, 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.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lois McMaster Bujold]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Note: I believe I am the only person on the face of the earth who hated this book. If you liked it, this review will annoy you. Also, be advised that there will be spoilers for what we might loosely term the plot in what follows.  <br/><br/>This book suffers from three main problems: <br/><br/>1...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1655222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Sharing Knife is about Fawn Bluefield, a young woman, pregnant but unwed, and scorned by the father of her baby.  Fearing the shame and outrage that will fall on her when news of her pregnancy gets around, she decides to run away from home and make a new life for herself in the city of Glassforg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28006786">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 25 20:55:20 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 25 21:14:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like most Bujold, this was a fast interesting read.  She grabbed my attention with the viewpoint character, Fawn, who was likable and quickly made me care what happened to her.  The world/society/setting seems underdeveloped, but that probably comes clearer in the rest of the series.  Also, when it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40910101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51581414">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 05 11:40:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy Bujold's imagination.  Her fantasy ideas are never like anything I've ever seen before and her worlds are so rich and complex and utterly believable.  And she is so good at letting them unfold slowly and naturally and at making characters that I totally fall in love with.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51581414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41092247">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book of a duology, a fantasy/romance with the emphasis on the romance. Our couple consists of Fawn Bluefield – farmer girl, eighteen, pregnant, running away from home – and Dag Redwing – one-handed, widower, fiftyish, from the militaristic Lakewalker culture. Dag and his patr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41092247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6904555">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Bujold novel I've read, recommended to me by the staff at Bakka Pheonix, and I have to say it's very sweet. It's got a similar tone to Kate Forsyth's work, if that gives you a clearer idea, and I really liked it.  <br/><br/>Fawn gets more than she wanted after experimenting in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6904555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28425750">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book where I can't seperate my expectations (in this case based firmly on my high opinion of the author) from the book itself. This was my second time reading <em>Beguilement</em> and I think I didn't get much more out of it this time around. It's a very slow paced romance book set in a fantasy world...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28425750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42108737">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my least favorite Bujold book to date. Really, it's nothing more than a romance -- and it gets rather sappy. Also, there are more detailed sex scenes in this novel than I've encountered in Bujold's work in the past, and I didn't like that at all. <br/><br/>I really did enjoy the first part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42108737">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bujold, as usual, sets up an interesting situation.  Two people with complex pasts face an ultimate evil.  Unfortunately, as usual, the exciting premise at the beginning of the book rots away into one long, dull conversation for the rest of the book.  I half expected one of the uninteresting charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55333165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53697987">
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    <body><![CDATA[This series had been repeatedly recommended to me, starting nearly a year ago, by a friend of mine. This friend had also advised that I avoid beginning the books too close to bedtime and that I obtain, at the very least, the first two books of this quad so that I could read them back to back. I real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53697987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76535052">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was rather surprised with this book. I knew I would enjoy it, or at least I had high expectations that I would, and I did, more so than I expected. I have read two other Bujold books, The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls, and while both of them had a subtle romance in them, neither of them we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76535052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39667393">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a lot of adult themes in it, and definitely took itself in a direction I was not expecting.  To keep it short and sweet, it was a good book, well written, and a new angle on a save the world from bad things theme, as well as rampant prejudice and bigotry.  The writing makes me feel it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39667393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43276826">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I borrowed this book from my sister, who really liked it.  I had my doubts about it based on the jacket description, but I like Bujold's other books, and my sister and I tend to have similar tastes, so I figured I'd give it a try.  I turned out to like it far more than I was expecting, finishing it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43276826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51019346">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 31 07:26:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Lois McMaster Bujold's first Chalion book, I was an instant fan. So, I was really excited to get my hands on the audio versions of the first two novels in her second fantasy series: The Sharing Knife.<br/><br/>Alas, it really pains me to have to write a lackluster review for anything...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51019346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77913040">
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 15 19:49:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dull, dull, and more dull.  After devouring Bujold's thrilling Vorkosigan saga, I immediately picked up this book, hoping for a new cast of equally engaging characters and thrilling new adventures to challenge and change them.  How wrong I was.  <br/><br/>The world was a fascinating one, but it pl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77913040">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay. I admit it. I picked this book out because the cover was really cool looking. Being really new to sci-fi/fantasy I don't know if I'm even qualified to judge this because what do I have to base my opinion on?  I did like this.  It was a simple, fast read and I thought the world of &quot;Little ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76176518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite a different book for Bujold. Unlike with the Vorkosigan books, this is clearly part of a series with this book being the set-up. It is different from both those adventure stories and from her fantasy novels, and enjoyable in its own new way. At several points in this story I was strong...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69688860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fawn and Dag are an unlikely pair but the chemistry between them is unmistakable! With The Sharing Knife Lois McMaster Bujold starts us on a new series — same great writing and boundless imagination but with a good dose of romance thrown in. I raced through this book. I was captivated by the adven...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54389162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a pretty neat summary on the back cover.  It got me to pick it up.  It describes a brief synopsis of the two main characters and introduces us to a few components of this new world.  A society of Lakewalkers... a war against malices... it all sounds pretty intriguing.  Unfortunately, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35805395">more...</a>]]></body>
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