false 61904 15 <p>Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.</p> 819610 book 2003 Paladin of Souls total:1320|5:454|4:545|3:269|2:45|1:7| 1320 5354 1735 111 4 1 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 08:54:59 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 15:42:30 -0700 2008
It´s so good, so well written and plotted out, thought out, thoughtful, a convincing feminine...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 17 17:10:50 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 17:20:02 -0800 2008
What I like best about McMaster Bujold is that her fantasy heroe...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 01:20:34 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 01:38:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 14:35:38 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 14:52:45 -0700 2009
Characters who played minor supporting roles in the first book of the series take the lead here, with the centr...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 10:24:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 10:26:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 21:40:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 21:59:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed May 27 19:28:16 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 19:38:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 08:10:30 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 08:18:55 -0800 2009 The Curse of Chalion, this book focuses on the dowager Ista, no longer mad and left at loose ends after the death of her mother. In many ways it's a coming of age story, despite the protagonist being over forty, and reads like one as well, with quite a bit more thought and care put into ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 21 10:16:57 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 10:27:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 12:52:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 07:04:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 09:43:10 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 10:50:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 31 08:01:47 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 08:01:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 19:38:15 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 11:01:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 24 15:00:59 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 07 19:28:38 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 20:37:14 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 20:46:28 -0700 2009
As usual, Bujold's strengths are her believable characters complete with lifelike weaknesses and a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 19 06:34:39 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 05:53:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 09:21:26 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 09:34:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 11 07:50:09 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 07:50:18 -0700 2008 rpg.net and other places. She has a good rep as a sci-fi/fantasy author, and seeing that this novel won the Hugo award this year, I figured it’d be worth picking up. It turns out to be a sequel of sorts to Curse of Chalion, but I didn’t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 21:09:14 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 16:15:50 -0700 2008 The Curse of Chalion. Both books follows a single main character, severely flawed but ultimately sympathetic and likeable. In this case, the main character is the Royina Iselle's mother, the dowager Royina Ista, who appears in the story of the fi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 22 09:48:54 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 09:48:54 -0700 2008
The Curse of Chalion - the first book in Bujold's Chalion series - is one of my ...more...]]>