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The Curse of Chalion
The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
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March 1, 2017
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March 31, 2017

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Steve
Sep 02, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2012-reading-list, sci-fi-women, fantasy
The Curse of Chalion is classic fantasy--royalty, palaces, romance, horses, sword play, and more. If that's not your usual thing, will take a bit to get into it. Yet once the story gets going, it's hard not to engage.

The story has demons, religious conflict, curses, ghosts, disgusting Alien I creatures in the belly, matched by good and helpful animal spirits, and more of that as well.

Yet its really the characters that hold the reader--how they respond to all this stuff and more importantly to ...more
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Angela Randall
Oct 25, 2009 rated it really liked it
Shelves: ange-recommends, we-own, 21st-century, 2000-2009, fantasy, fiction, first-book-in-great-series, a-great-list-of-top-books-to-read, bruce-recommends, friends-recommend
As usual, Lois McMaster Bujold has put together an epic adventure involving some extremely complex and interesting characters.

I really loved how anything remotely magical in this book was religious and that not everyone was sure how much they believed in it, but respected it just in case. ...more
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Frank Taranto
Nov 01, 2009 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
An interesting fantasy story.
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