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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780061375330
ISBN number: 0061375330
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Page Count: 448
Printing Date: April 22, 2008
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Release Date: April 22, 2008
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Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Lois McMaster Bujold—five-time winner of the Hugo Award—brings us the third installment in her New York Times bestselling romantic fantasy
The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage
Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples.
But they will not journey alone. Along the way they acquire comrades, starting with Fawn's irrepressible brother Whit, whose future on the Bluefield family farm seems as hopeless as Fawn's once did. Planning to seek passage on a riverboat heading to the sea, Dag and Fawn find themselves allied with a young flatboat captain searching for her father and fiancé, who mysteriously vanished on the river nearly a year earlier. They travel downstream, hoping to find word of the missing men, and inadvertently pick up more followers: a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers running away from an honest mistake with catastrophic consequences; a shrewd backwoods hunter stranded in a wreck of boats and hopes; and a farmer boy Dag unintentionally beguiles, leaving Dag with more questions than answers about his growing magery.
As the ill-assorted crew is tested and tempered on its journey to where great rivers join, Fawn and Dag will discover surprising new abilities both Lakewalker and farmer, a growing understanding of the bonds between themselves and their kinfolk, and a new world of hazards both human and uncanny.
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The Sharing Knife novels are set in a post-apocalypse low-tech fantasy world that strongly resembles the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys of what was called in the 19th century "The Northwest Territory". A high civilization of magic fell, leaving farmers, trying to get along in small communities, Lakewalkers, Ranger-like users of minor magics, and malices, leftovers of that high civilization which threaten farmer and Lakewalkers (who hunt them) alike. And despite their common foe, Lakewalkers and farmers trust each other not at all...
The very first two novels introduced us to Dag, a one-armed world-weary Lakewalker who falls for farmer girl Fawn Bluefield. In the first, the two meet and are introduced to Fawn's family, and the relationship slowly grows between them. The second novel reverses this and has Dag bring his now farmer bride to Lakewalker country, to meet Dag's Lakewalkers and also deal with an even more powerful malice than in the very first novel, the way that they met.
In this third novel, Fawn and Dag go south. Accompanied by Fawn's younger brother Whit, the three collect companions on what becomes a flat boat adventure down a river suspiciously similar to the Ohio. We meet new characters like Berry, who owns the boat and is seeking her lost fiance and father who took a boat down river and never returned. We meet a pair of runaway Lakewalkers who wind up under Dag's tutelage. And add to that a farmer that Dag's experiments with being a healer who gets beguiled by mistake, and you wind up with a crowded but interesting set of characters for the journey.
As in the previous novels and in this series, we get subtle hints of worldbuilding, interesting character dynamics and psychology (a Bujold specialty!) and (a little less often) action and adventure. I won't give away just what Dag, Fawn and company find on the river, I leave that pleasure for the reader to discover. It's a journey of discovery, in several senses. This book is a little more down than the previous two novels, but only by a moderate degree.
I wouldn't start the series here by any means. However, this is a worthy successor to the very first two SK novels and if you have read those two, you will be satisfied with this third volume set in that world.
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Bujold series is great. I cannot wait for book 4. Her depth of characterization, thought provoking illustration of clashing ideas and values as well as a fully realized world make this a very good read. The very first book rates 5, the 2n 4.5.
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Dag, the Lakewalker, has had a harrowing life of death and destruction, fighting the horrific Malices that blight the land and create monsters and kill thousands. His personal life has hardly been less difficult since he's fallen in love and wed Fawn, a woman a third his age and worse yet, one of the Farmers, people with whom the Lakewalkers do not associate even though they are sworn to protect them from the Malices.
It's not Fawn's fault of course, but the way their societies are set up. The very first two books (of which this is the third) are full of fights with Malices and fights for this odd couple to stay together against the wishes of nearly everyone else. Living among the Lakewalkers finally drove them both to leave... searching for a way of life that would help both Farmers and Lakewalkers and themselves.
So, on a honeymoon of sorts, although with a vague purpose, Dag has promised Fawn a trip to view the ocean. They very first stop at the farm of Fawn's family and end up leaving with Fawn's brother, who used to torment her but who promises to be better behaved. They start a leisurely trip by flat-boat down the long river to the sea.
There is nothing world-shattering at stake, or at least, not in the short term, but Dag is determined to break the societal taboos that keep the people divided, since keeping to the old ways will only lead to greater destruction, as far as he can see. The social aspects remind me a little of Cherryh's Foreigner Series, which can seem slow, but are still rich and engrossing. Here it is the same, utterly fascinating, and a welcome respite after the grim events of the very first books. The tale is filled with curious characters and many revelations about them and their lives, with lovely bits of growth and insight. And the adventure of following Fawn and her brother on a trip to new territory is exiting on its own. There is also danger and action, of course. This is not a slow, dull book by any means.
This series has not been among my favorites by Bujold, but surprisingly, I've come to truly care for these characters, particularly with this wonderful tale of simple adventure and exploration. It was like being on a travel vacation to a new locale with a group of good friends and interesting new people to meet. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and am more than ready to read about what happens next.
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I have read many of LMBs books and enjoyed them immensely, including the very first two Sharing Knife books. I was excited about this third volume but have found it slow paced with mundane detail. I have read over half of it and find it so lackluster I can hardly pick it up. hopefully the other reviews will give me the encouragement to finish it and be able to write a more positive review.
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The third novel in the Sharing Knife series is a solid and entertianing continuation. This book follows the travels of Fawn and Dag from Dag's lakewalker camp down what is basicly the Ohio river to the ocean. They introduce several new characters and Dag learns more about both the extent of his powers and of the extent of the tension between the lakewalkers and farmers.
The joy in these novels is the way that Bujold can write such an entertaining and novel and keep up tension in what is mostly domestic situations. Her accoplishment with these novels reminds me of the camp sceanes that dominate the Lord of the Rings. As much as everyone remembers the big battle sceanes it is the time around the campfire and the characters cooking and telling stories that really held those novels together.
The novel ends with another small battle with a resolution that was both suprising and a little bit disurbing, and as always Bujold doesn't shy away from the questions that come as a result. Overall this is an excellent book that leaves me looking foward to the subsequent one.
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