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Dec 19, 2010
Liz
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Funny, how one can grow to like a book so much better the second time around. I reread Bujold's "Curse of Chalion" and loved it so much more than I remembered. This was the first of her works I'd ever read, and I listened to it on audio about a month before my wedding and it somehow failed to make an impression on me.
Then I discovered the Vorkosigan Saga and devoured everything Bujold had written, then went on to inflict her on my friends and family. Which is the proper thing to do with a good b ...more
Then I discovered the Vorkosigan Saga and devoured everything Bujold had written, then went on to inflict her on my friends and family. Which is the proper thing to do with a good b ...more
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
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
Quite interesting while still easy to read. I really needed something that was not so hard to get through after the "Memories of Ice". This one surprised me in a nice way. Interesting schemes by the main antagonists and a nice use of logic by our heroes and heroines made a nice change and a pleasure to read.
You won't find a complex world of deities and different religions and nations here but you won't be disappointed in the end...i think :) ...more
You won't find a complex world of deities and different religions and nations here but you won't be disappointed in the end...i think :) ...more
The first of the three connected tales each told by a different protagonist. This was the best voice of the three for me.
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May 11, 2008
Aaron S
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Feb 01, 2009
Sandi
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it was amazing
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