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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Alternate Cover edition here. Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm. Enroute to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers. The necromancers armed with human bone knives fight "malices", immortal entities that draw out life, enslaving humans and animals. Dag saves Fawn from a malice - at a devastating cost. Their fates are now bound in a Alternate Cover edition here. Their fates are now bound in a remarkable journey. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published September 27th by Harper Voyager first published October More The Sharing Knife Original The Sharing Knife. The Sharing Knife 1. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Beguilementplease sign up. This says The Sharing Knife 1. David Tate It's not so much "a series" as a single long novel in 4 volumes, always planned as such. Rather like The Lord of the Rings in that regard. See 1 question about Beguilement…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. The Sharing Knife Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Beguilement The Sharing Knife, 1. Note: I believe I am the only person on the face of the earth who hated this book. If you liked it, this review will annoy you. Also, be advised that there will be spoilers for what we might loosely term the plot in what follows. This book suffers from three main problems: 1. A fascinating world that gets built in the first few pages and then utterly abandoned in favor of 2. An amazingly unengaging, unbelievable romance between a typical Bujold guy and 3. Mary Sue The thing is, this is actually a so Note: I believe I am the only person on the face of the earth who hated this book. Mary Sue The thing is, this is actually a solid fantasy world; it had the potential to be as interesting as The Sharing Knife one Bujold created in The Curse of Chalion, and maybe in future books it will be. Which is not all that great, in my opinion, or even tolerable. I love romance FF. But I'm not a good romance reader; I tend to choke on emotion, and an author has to be The Sharing Knife to get me seriously invested in a relationship. Even if I loved romances, I think I'd choke on this one. Among, you know, other notable events. Most people would be too distracted by these events to breathenever mind fall in love. And our hero, Dag - intelligent, highly talented, The Sharing Knife older and more knowledgeable and talented than Fawn, with a Tragic Past and a Great Lost Love The Sharing Knife meets and falls in love with Fawn despite a having steadfastly refused all romance since the Great Lost Love, b being emotionally distant and embittered, c having absolutely nothing in common with Fawn, and d being old enough and smart enough to know better. For a person like Dag to fall in love - well, I could buy it, but it would have to take months or years, not days. There'd need to be some build, is my point, and not just a shortcut to heat coiling The Sharing Knife his belly at her touch. And Fawn - she's adorable, cheerful, industrious, sweet, resilient, essentially flawless, and utterly uninteresting. In other words: hello, Mary Sue! I think I first suspected that she was a Mary Sue when, in the first couple of pages, I was told that she has long, lovely, bouncing curls even though she has been living rough. I have curly hair. Trust me when I tell you that after a few nights of sleeping in haystacks and a few days of hard travel, it would be a giant matted mess attractive only to birds seeking a nesting spot. Only Mary Sues have hair that stays gorgeous under such circumstances. But, look, I'm not just judging her on the hair. Fawn has so many other traits Industry despite major illness! Open-mindedness despite being raised in an utterly closed-minded culture! Cheerful acceptance of everything! Adored by all who meet her! This book does display Bujold's very competent writing. And I have a vague, distant hope that a future The Sharing Knife of the series will explain the weird romance - maybe it's unnatural or magical in origin? If you can buy into the romance, you'll love this book. If you can't, you'll want to stab something while you read this, because the romance is all this book is. I The Sharing Knife, in good conscience, recommend this The Sharing Knife anyone, but I will say that many people seem to love it. Just - oh my god, so very much not for me. View all 24 comments. The Sharing Knife 17, carol. Shelves: female-leadfantasyskimmedyuck. I cry foul! I thought Bujold wrote sophisticated fantasies in interesting worlds Hugo winner? We follow a pregnant farm girl who has left home with the half-formed intention of seeking a new life in the city, when she's captured by a The Sharing Knife really?? Thankfully, a member of the Native American Lakewalker tribe patrol is on the track of said mud-men and the malice. He saves her, they take The Sharing Knife, she's stolen again when he leaves! Believe me, I'm spoiling nothing, as this takes place in the first 60 pages and is utterly predictable. The rest of the story is about discovering their love and commitment Against Outside Forces, to the Dismay of their Families. Ah, the timelessness of Romeo and Juliet. The fantasy world setting and the Evil Forces are forgotten as we zero in on their burgeoning relationship. In fact, it's a vaguely creepy, as it takes place between a worldly, widowed 55 year-old man and a naive 18 year-old farm girl, and of course involves The Sharing Knife her about The Joys of Sex, titillating any eleven-year olds reading. But don't worry about the age difference--his people are long-lived calling Edward The The Sharing Knife positive--he's differently abled, as he has only one hand. Oh, and he's tall and thin; she's short and round forgive me, oh Librarian, but The Sharing Knife heard "jack sprat" echo in the background once I The Sharing Knife their descriptions. Normally, I wouldn't even rate a book like this, except it was so dismally envisioned and written that I can only surmise an evil Doppelganger has taken Bujold's place and is endeavoring to destroy her reputation. As a public service I'm sharing my thoughts, in hopes of steering you towards--oh, I don't know. Go pick something from your TBR pile. If you are truly in the mood for some fantasy-world, naive-female romance, skip this and read a more original fantasy version, Winds of Fate. At least the characters are more sophisticated in their development, and the world-building deeper, and better integrated. View all 32 comments. As one of the later books in that series, it was definitely the wrong place to start and left me rather puzzled and at sea. But then I discovered Cordelia's Honor and fell in love with both Cordelia and Aral, and dove into all the Miles books afterwards--one of the great SF series, seriously-- and then I finished and thought, what next? So it turned out that Bujold has written The Sharing Knife fantasy books along the way. The Sharing Knife Series by Lois McMaster Bujold

Flurries of action early on, devolving into stock fantasy-romance; overall, just about noteworthy enough to bring readers Young farm girl Fawn Bluefield, pregnant and unmarried, runs away from home, hoping The Sharing Knife find work in the town of Glassforge. Just as Dag arrives, the malice rips out of Fawn her unborn child. Dag has two knives, but only one of them is charged; as Fawn stabs the malice with the uncharged one, Dag kills the creature with the other. This unprecedented development must be reported to Lakewalker headquarters; after Fawn recovers, they hit the road. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike The Sharing Knife enjoy. Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on The Sharing Knife bestseller World War Z A zombie apocalypse is one thing. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you. In the northern U. It turns The Sharing Knife this road trip is merely the beginning of a series of bizarre chimerical adventures ensnaring both the Turner and Dandridge clans in ancient rituals, arcane magical texts, alternate universes, and transmogrifying potions, all of which bears some resemblance to the supernatural visions of H. Lovecraft and other gothic dream makers of the past. Already have an account? Log in. Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials. Sign Up. First of a planned fantasy duology from Bujold The Curse of Chalion, etc. Flurries of action early on, devolving into The Sharing Knife fantasy- romance; overall, just about noteworthy enough to bring readers back for the promised conclusion. Pub Date: Oct. No Comments Yet. More by Lois McMaster The Sharing Knife. Review Posted Online: Feb. Show all comments. More by Max Brooks. More About This Book. Pub Date: Feb. Review Posted Online: Nov. More by Matt Ruff. Please sign up to continue. Almost there! Reader Writer Industry Professional. Send me weekly book recommendations and inside scoop. Keep me logged in. Sign in using your Kirkus account Sign in Keep me logged in. Need Help? Contact us: or email customercare kirkus. Please select an existing bookshelf OR Create a new bookshelf Continue. Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

The original story grew so long in the telling that it was split into two volumes: Beguilement and Legacy The Sharing Knife Bujold then wrote a sequel, which was also divided, The Sharing Knife Passage and Horizon The original title of the sequel was The Wide Green World[1] but Bujold and her publisher decided to make "Sharing Knife" the overall title, with the individual books given one-word subtitles and numbered 1—4. The fifth story in the series, a "short novel" [2] titled Knife Childrenwas released as The Sharing Knife electronic book on January 25, [3]. Beguilement establishes a fictional space inspired by the part of North America Bujold grew up in: the country south of the Great Lakes. Recovery from a grand collapse of a prior high magical culture has brought population and technology back to roughly the state of the early 19th- century American frontier—minus gunpowder. The grand collapse is accounted for in terms of hubris, though not in technology but in spirit, for lack of a clearer term, with a caste of near-magical aristocrats all but wiped out in a series of wars with their spirit-eating creation and its hatchlings, termed malices or blight bogles. A malice feeds on 'life force' or, in the novel's terms, ground —which includes not only the internal order of living The Sharing Knife, but also the structural integrity of all matter, the emergent properties of form and function. It is able to mold man-like agents out of wild animals, called "mud- men", and to absorb the knowledge and skills of humans that it kills. A malice that emerges in areas away from humans is likely to become somewhat strange, consuming only animals. The role of the clans of Lakewalkers, descendants of the said near-magical aristocracy, is to patrol the lands around the Dead Lake remnant of the several Great Lakes and to kill newly hatched malices as early in their careers as may be. This they do with knives made from the thigh bones The Sharing Knife their own dead, "primed" in the suicide of a mortally wounded or aged Lakewalker so that their death may be "shared" with the otherwise immortal malice. Hence the series title. The Lakewalker caste's lifeway approximates Native Americans' hunter-gatherer-warrior nomadism after adoption of the horse, but differs by maintaining a single culture and language and an all-hinterland-spanning quasi-military order, the Patrol, which Lakewalker camps spend considerable resources to support. Southeast seacoast survivors from the commoner caste have been invited by them to re-settle the area south of the Dead Lake. Anyone not a Lakewalker is labeled a farmer. Farmers have little or none of the Lakewalkers' great talent and tool: "ground sense". With this, it is possible to detect and read details of all The Sharing Knife things, as well as innate qualities of inanimate objects—the underlying truth of the world—to a distance varying with individual talent and training including the presence of malices. In its absence, Farmers tend to take a jaundiced view of Lakewalkers' activities and abilities, and to The Sharing Knife the role of Lakewalkers in their own survival. Although both Farmers and Lakewalkers are human, and they speak the same language, there are physical differences, in addition to the Lakewalkers' ability to sense and manipulate ground. Lakewalkers are significantly taller than Farmers, and Lakewalkers have a longer life-span. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Sharing Knife Beguilement and Legacy Passage and Horizon Knife Children Background [ The Sharing Knife ] Beguilement establishes a fictional space inspired by the part of North America Bujold grew up in: the country south of the Great Lakes. The Bujold Nexus. Retrieved Lois McMaster Bujold. Vorkosigan Saga. Miles Vorkosigan. The Spirit Ring Categories : Book series introduced in American fantasy novel series. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download The Sharing Knife PDF Printable version. The Sharing Knife and Legacy Julie BellRon Miller. Vorkosigan family Miles Vorkosigan.