January Books 1) The Sharing Knife: Horizon, by Lois McMaster Bujold

[nwhyte]

The end of the four-volume Sharing Knife series, in which the romance / action plot, of mutual suspicions between two human cultures, equally threatened by an 'orrible supernatural menace, resolves in entirely satisfactory manner, with much character-building wisdom being imparted to the foolish younger relatives. But I found myself a bit

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[sinclair_furie]

To be honest, I thought the series was over by the third book! Hm... now to decide if I want to read this one.

[jeriendhal]

IIRC I think there was a very brief mention of half-breeds in the very first book, when Dag was considering Aunt Nattie's mild Groundsense. Frankly, I would have been more surprised if there hadn't been any besides Fawn and Dag's get. Note that a lot of the first section of Horizon is Dag getting cut down for trying to reinvent the wheel. By the time they're on their way to Tripoint I'd gotten the impression that the Hickory Lake and other northern Lakewalkers were poor country cousins compared to their southern kin.

And yeah, there's a heckuva lot of Magicial Native American to the Lakewalkers, but there's also enough divergence that the initial premise didn't bother me all that much.