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[sammywol]

Mr Wol bought me two pressies last week: Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora and Bujold's The Sharing Knife - Beguilement. He knows me very well. The pregnancy pundits may recommend jewelery but books are much more up my street. It took a while but I finished both and really did enjoy them.

Comments

[artw]

Glad you liked the Bujold too. I didn't like 'The Hallowed Hunt', despite being definitely a Bujold fan. I suspect she doesn't like it much either since she said repeatedly in interviews that she "needed a break from theology".

[sammywol]

Do I remember you writing a review of it which I read and obviously forgot entirely? I must trawl back and find it.

[magista]

Fortunately for both of us, the next instalment of The Sharing Knife (Legacy) is due out in June. And then the story is complete in only two volumes, although she has said on her official site that she's just completed a two-volume 'sequel' set in the same world, due out in 2008 and 2009.

I felt the same way about The Hallowed Hunt. It didn't hold my attention nearly as much as the first two. OTOH, I've re-read TSK:B twice within the past three days, to the great detriment of my ability to stay awake at work...

[sammywol]

Oh bless you! Only two volumes. I was sure it was three. After being very disappointed after waiting for volume three of Steven Brust's The Viscount of Adrilankha I much prefer two volume serials. However, I felt it was rather a short book. Did it really need hacking in half? I suppose that depends on how fat the second book is. Then again I am one of those people who never reads Shards of Honour without reading Barrayar as well and I am not afraid of fat books per se (although an author catching fat book syndrome does piss me off somewhat).

[mylescorcoran]

I most certainly did not know that TSK: Beguilement started with a miscarriage. I know that books can't really come with a complete warning label against all the possible icks and squicks, but sometimes it would help.

Glad you liked the books though.

[sammywol]

The fact that I don't really care about the miscarriage aspect might suggest to you how much I enjoyed the book. Roll on June apparently! Love you!

[rahirah]

I must be the only person in the universe who liked The Hallowed Hunt. But then, animal companions are one of my narrative kinks.

[sammywol]

I didn't hate it or anything. I just thought that it was rather curates egg of a book - good in parts. I liked the animal spirit aspects OK but basically felt it took a long, long road to come to the point.

[missmurchison]

*liked it too but still really wants to know what Ivan and Mark are doing*

[sammywol]

To paraphrase Kareen: "Nobody ever gives enough thought to Mark." Ivan's continuing lovelife troubles and increasing failure to maintain the facade of cheerful, idle, only semi-eptitude is also very compelling. Mind you I cannot be sorry she has found some new loves. it would be awful if she kept on writing Barrayaran stories long after the joy of it had left her - several other authors I used to love have poisoned the wells of their created universes doing that (hem hem ahRaymondFeistem hem hem).

[gillo]

I've come across very few who have read teh Bujold, so I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did. And I agree about the cursed cliffhanger too.

[sammywol]

nhw put us on to teh Bujold some years ago when Mr Wol was lamenting not being able to find a series of books of good quality to enjoy and replace a few we had been following who had lost their earlier appeal. If for nothing else we would be beholden to him for that tip - and she should be grateful too as I have read some of my Vorkosigan ones so many times I had to buy replacement copies.

[gillo]

I love the Vorkosigan books, especially the way she shifts between genres within the same world. I adored the Heyer/Austen/Sayer inspired one in particular.