Explore Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1) Designed By Lois McMaster Bujold Classified In Readable Copy
de fantasía romántica, con unos personajes muy interesantes que pertenecen a dos grupos humanos muy diferentes unos que tienen una cultura nómada en la que existe y se hace uso de la magia, y otra de granjeros muy arraigados a su tierra y raíces.
El estilo es claro y fluido, con unos personajes muy interesantes enfrentados a un amor imposible ejem, una ambientación que se revela según lees y una intrigante magia, sobre todo las "malicias", de las que hubiera deseado saber más.
Es fantasía romántica con acento en romántica, aunque habiendo otras tres novelas de la serie, seguro hay otros intereses que se han desarrollado más a partir de esta premisa peeero no, no los han traducido.
Lástima, por que aunque sea el más flojo de los que he leído de ella es palabra de Bujold, y Bujold es Dios.
Amén. Направо не мога да повярвам, че из под перото сътворило галактическите приключения на Майлс Воркосиган може да излезе подобна глупост
Че и цяла поредица е тотална загуба на време според мен. The characters in this book are lovable, Every thing else seem typical for a love story, but the tone of the writing was incredibly inviting and almost soothing,
Fawn and Dag were an unlikely pair Dag with a military persona, and Fawn a lowly, naive farm girl, albeit witty, clever, and resourceful.
Fawn was a damsel in distress rescued by Dag, that was how their paths crossed, They pushed old boundary lines to be together, against all odds,
The story was not all romance, there was magic, action and adventure that gave they story a bit more depth,
Overall it was not too bad, I had a great time, I would never have picked up this book based on any description of it I've ever read, but it's Bujold, so I thought, how bad could it be
It turns out that even Bujold can't make me enjoy a sappy romance between a young, naive farm girl named Fawn and the much older supernatural warrior named Dag who comes to her rescue.
She's perky and her family doesn't appreciate her, He's suffered a tragedy and thought he'd never love again, The characterization is nothing special, and the setting is a bland frontier fantasy world where people greet each other with "How de' do" Despite the scenes where Dag teaches a wideeyed and eager Fawn about sex, the book reads like a young adult novel.
The writing is fine, this just isn't the story for me, and definitely isn't the romance for me, I really love Bujolds fantasy writing and while this may not have been quite as rich as a Chaplin book, it was still perfect to me.
Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm, But en route to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldiersorcerers from the northern woodlands, Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made
of human bone, they wage a secret, ongoing war against the scourge of the "malices," immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving human and animal alike.
It is Daga Lakewalker patroller weighed down by past sorrows and onerous present responsibilitieswho must come to Fawn's aid when she is taken captive by a malice.
They prevail at a devastating costunexpectedly binding their fates as they embark upon a remarkable journey into danger and delight, prejudice and partnership.
. . and perhaps even love. I load books onto my kindle and then read them somewhat randomly later on, and for this one I didn't pay any attention to the author, and based on the story I really would have said this was someone's first novel.
A good attempt, but too disjointed and wandering to be the work of a professional,
Apparently I was wrong about the author, but I don't think I was about the book, The first chunk was pretty solid nothing worldshaking, but some solid world building and a few interesting characters and some good action, And then things just went to hell,
I've read some of the reviews here saying that it went to romanceland, but it wasn't even satisfying as a romance.
There's no real conflict between the characters, The whole second half of the book is just the hero trying to negotiate an appropriate marriage arrangement for himself and the heroine, even though we know the heroine has already committed to go away with him regardless and cared so little for her family's opinion that he actually had to talk her into going for the visit in the first place.
The stakes are so low I can barely identify them,
Now, in real life, a man showing this sort of consideration WOULD be romantic, But in a novel Not so interesting, I feel like this book got WAY too caught up in the showdon'ttell rule, . . the whole second half of the book could have been told in about a paragraph, and we could have gotten on with the damn story.
I won't be looking for the next book, and given that I think I DNF'ed another book by the same author a few years ago, I think I'm done with her work.
Just not a good fit, ReRead via Audio
Rating Raised fromtoStars
Stars for Narration by Bernadette Dunne
Stars for Story
I'm on a roll! I finally caught up on Vorkosigan Saga this year and that reignited my interest to read other work by Bujold.
I may be totally caught up next year,
I read this story when it came out years ago, It did not make a deep impression on me because I thought it would be like the Vorkosigan series, Isn't it interesting how your state of mind and expectations will totally influence the way you feel about a story
Back then, I thought the story was too simple and not enough of an adventure.
I wanted an adventure and this was more of a romance,
Now I read a diverse range of reviews about the story written by my friends and the conflicting commentary intrigued me.
I wondered how I would respond to the story now and if it would be like what I had felt before, Kudos for my local library! There's a collection of books that are always available for loan, Beguilement is one of those books,
I liked it! Bernadette Dunne was a great narrator and the story was great, The world setting for the tale is rich amp complex, The characters are easy to understand and show clearly who they are by their actions, The story is a romance and it's about two people who are fair, clear eyed and have a good heart, I know why I was not as enthralled by this story when I read it ages ago, That was fine. I understand why my friends have their differing views on the story too, It's hard to enjoy a story if you take the story out of context, Before, I wanted this tale to be about something else, This time around, I took in the story for what it is and really liked it,
Dag is an older male with a lot of experience fighting but out of habit of living his life for himself.
Fawn is a young female with little experience but a vibrant desire to live and learn despite pitfalls,
They are two individuals that are straight forward and have good hearts, Their story is simple and sweet, I liked it a lot for what it is and look forward to reading the rest of the series,
I waited a year because someone had warned me that The Sharing Knife: Beguilement was actually the first half of a book summarily chopped in half.
So I waited until the second came out,
The story appears to be a fantasy set in some pastoral world near water I later found out the setting was a parallel world Great Lakes region, an area I'd never seen, and so did not recognize, where we are introduced to two cultures living in uneasy coexistence: the Farmers and the Lakewakers, who patrol everywhere looking for malices bogles to the Farm people that suck all the life and energy out of people, animals, land.
The resultant blight can last a century or more, and affected are not just the living, but the environment such as rocks and soil.
The Lakewalkers aren't particularly trusted by the Farm folk, who own and farm land, but are protected by them: the Farm folk are unable to fight the bogles.
The story begins when a Farm girlFawn, just barely eighteenruns away from home, gets grabbed by a malice, is rescued by a Lakewalker, and ends up spending enough time with the man for reasons having to do with the eponymous Sharing Knives that she begins to fall for him.
Even though she's eighteen and he's fiftyfive,
Bujold has given us middleaged, battleweary heroes before, in Aral of the Miles books, and Caz of the Chalion books, and she makes them fascinating and distinct.
Dag is tired, and missing a hand, though anyone who assumes he can't hold his own in battle is in for a nasty surprise.
He's griefdriven, so tightwired that he's got no emotional edge on an eighteen year oldone could say that he's emotionally retarded by his long, shockfilled life.
Everyone in both cultures disapproves of these two as a pair she, a blithe spirit, becomes stubborn, and he, sheepish, begins to wake up to the possibilities of life again, instead of the close focus on methods of delivering efficient death.
Together they are an anomaly, and not just because of the age and cultural divide, but because something happened when they killed that malice together to make it clear that there's a lot of mystery still buried in their history.
This is a new world, at least initially quieter in tone and drive than the Miles books, Many fans have grumped about anything Bujold does that is notMiles, But the overarcing Miles story itself has become notMiles, at least, the powerful emotional overdrive and desperatedeath threatening political situation all fuelinjected by Mile's high octane personal problems are not the same rocket, or rather, that rocket has achieved high orbit.
Very much present in these two books are the signature Bujoldian gracenotes: everyday humor thoroughly grounding flights of heroism, angst that never whines, grief that does not overwhelm the story with scenes meant to drench the reader in pity.
What Bujold does in the first book as she carefully develops every character never settling for stereotypes or singlemotive actions is remind the reader that outside the firelight and the merry dancing, dark things do prowl.
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