The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1) in The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Jan 19, 2012 Matt rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook-library-loan, fantasy, own, 2012

I listened to this as an audiobook. As I have said many times, I wish Goodreads had a 10 star system instead of this inaccurate 5 star. If it did I would have given this a 9/10, but as it was I just couldn't give it a 5/5.

Lets start first with what I liked about it. First off, it was told 100% from the perspective of one character. Multi-character POVs can work but they have to be extremely well written. Especially when you take into account all of the character names in fantasy books (which I ...more

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Apr 21, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, ultimate-reading-list, fantasy, fiction, novels, ebooks

This was my first book by Bujold and after reading it I had to hunt up everything else she wrote I could find in stores or failing that borrow them from the library. This book earned a spot in my precious limited shelf space and I've read and enjoyed it more than once (and just writing this review makes me want to pick it up again). Bujold's an exceptional writer and I was pulled in at once; there was never a moment I wanted to put the book down.

The protagonist, Cazaril, immediately gained my s ...more

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Oct 25, 2009 Angela Randall rated it really liked it

Shelves: ange-recommends, we-own, 21st-century, read-2012, 2000-2009, fantasy, fiction, first-book-in-great-series, a-great-list-of-top-books-to-read, bruce-recommends

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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