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Description: Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Newest Review: ... mysterious saints, sacred animals, and quaint orders of ecclesiastical soldiers. There's death magic, distant warfare and the looming, implacable power of a malign curse that stalks the royal family down the generations... The story is certainly well-written. Bujold has a sure command of her prose, and she's constructed a fantasy world of a solid, workmanlike sort, with all the ... more

... necessary bits and pieces of neighbouring kingdoms, divine pantheons, noble orders, servants and scholars and priests and nobles, neatly slotted into place. The characters too, are quite strong. Cazaril is certainly engaging; a tough man of the world, with ...more

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Lois McMaster Bujold in general: The Curse of Chalion (837 words)
by - written on 24/09/03 (Very useful, 21 readings)
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..Will be moved as soon as the new home is finished.. After two years chained to an oar on a Roknari galley, Lupe dy Cazaril comes stumbling home to the Kingdom of Chalion. Destitute, mutilated, exhausted, this landless man of noble blood wants only to beg a menial post in the household of a great lady where he once served as a page. Fortune, however, or perhaps one of Chalion's five Gods, seems to intend higher things for him. The lady in question (let's skip the rather silly names Bujold slaps down in place of readily recognisable ranks, and call her a countess), is busily bringing up her grandchildren, the prince and princess of Chalion. The ... Read the complete review