false 821583 7 Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's host and uncle, Alec Campion, aka the Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here—and to him, rules are made to be broken. When Alec decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage, her world changes forever. Blade in hand, it's up to Katherine to navigate a maze of secrets and scoundrels and to gain the self-discovery that comes to those who master: the privilege of the sword. 4003 25 7 2006 The Privilege of the Sword total:456|5:122|4:188|3:107|2:31|1:8| 456 1753 721 80 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 17:46:18 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 12:20:19 -0700 2007
Very fine when it comes to Katherine's personal life; less successful in other areas.

Katherine is adorable, and her reactions rang very true to me; I especially liked ...more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 07:06:10 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 07:34:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 12:18:19 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 07:29:38 -0700 2007 The Privilege of the Sword (which my husband insisted on calling the Privilege of the Phallus) was a delight. Katherine was fascinating, multilayered, complex. I really liked her. She grew from an independent, loyal and sensitive girl into a fiercely independent, fiercely loy...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 23:05:51 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 18:27:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:43:20 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:43:43 -0800 2008
Okay, so, it went something like this:

First 100 pages: Restless twitching, sighing...more...]]> 2 0 false true Tue Jun 16 07:25:47 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 06:57:12 -0700 2009 Swordspoint. It is one of the those magical books that draws the reader in from the first line. Sadly, The Privilege of the Sword is not a good sequel.

There are several problems with this book. The first is that two of the main characte...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:41:39 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:41:39 -0800 2009 Ellen Kushner, host of public radio's Sound & Spirit, won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for Thomas the Rhymer (1990). She also wowed readers with her 1987 debut Swordspoint. She has revisited its setting in two novels: The Fall of the Kings (with Delia Sherman) (2002), and now The Privilege of the Sw...

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Essentially this novel is about a crazy rich man who buys his niece from his sister in order t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 20:19:41 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 18:01:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 27 19:13:18 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 19:14:03 -0800 2008
She and her family hope he'll make a good marriage for her, but the Mad Duke has decided to train her as a sword fighter.

She is furious, and besides a swordmaster to ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 02 10:19:43 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 10:20:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 21 20:41:20 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 20:12:23 -0700 2009 Swordspoint, we meet Alec Campion once again – this time as the formidable and mad duke of Tremontaine. The story, however, focuses on his niece, Katherine, daughter of his one-time much adored sister. Alec has been cruel to his sister and her family since he came into power â€...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 02 18:51:11 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 17:09:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 15 18:11:37 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 01 11:54:52 -0700 2009 The Privilege of the Sword, but once I finally did, I was rather glad of it. It didn't strike me as quite the oh-my-god-amazing thing that the buzz for the book made it out to be when it first came out, but still, I did like it quite a bit.

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