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$7.99 - The Sharing Knife, Volume Four: Horizon
Product Description The concluding volume in the epic fantasy saga from multiple Hugo Award-winning author Lois McMaster Bujold A Lakewalker entrusted with protecting the populace from malices—terrifying remnants of ancient magic—Dag Redwing Hickory never expected to fall in love with Fawn Bluefield, the farmer girl he rescued. When they joined in marriage, defying their kin, they bridged the perilous split between their peoples. Now Dag's extraordinary maker abilities have grown—along with his fears about who and what he is becoming, and his frustration with the disdain in which Lakewalker soldier-sorcerers are expected to hold their farmer neighbors. Fawn and Dag's world is changing, and the traditional Lake-walker practices cannot continue to hold every malice at bay. At the end of their long journey home, the pair must at last answer the question they've grappled with for so long: When the old traditions fail disastrously, can their untried new ways stand against their world's deadliest foe?
Most Recent Customer ReviewsDate : 2010-03-10 Summary : The Sharing Knife - series I also own about every book published by this author, and have read most of them more than once. Whenever I see her name as author, I buy the book. Her books are consistently entertaining, thoughtful, and the characters are believable and delightful. Her worlds and situations can engage for hours. My husband, who is not much of a reader, is currently reading "The Sharing Knife" - volume 2.
This is a fantasy series set on an unnamed but presumably non-earth world. The setting explores relationships between and within two main groups, ordinary people and those gifted "walkers" which can sense life-forces or have "ground-sense". In addition to the usual friction between different cultures, there is a common enemy of not-quite sentient "malices" which drain life force. The walkers, who have their own seasonal camps and who patrol from place to place as needed, protect the fringes of the more settled, interior settlements and have done such a good job that the farmers and other ordinaries have frequently come to believe that the malices are myth. Thus walkers are finding themselves even more as a fringe group (so to speak) as their traditional role has become less needed and therefore less valued. Some forward thinking walkers come to realize that their society must adapt, although in what direction, and how, is a struggle.
This series has everything--engaging characters faced with tough decisions, romance, individual growth, exploration, humor, personal sacrifice--all seen through the eyes of likable characters who are thrown into situations and relationships requiring re-examination of their beliefs and relationships. The descriptions of landscape, dress, verbal expressions and the character's reactions to different behaviors, underlying prejudices, and trials as they journey, make for a wonderful and sometimes scary, adventure. Vacations don't come any cheaper, and you don't need travel insurance.
Date : 2010-02-18 Summary : Great book in a new series. I have lots of books from this author and was pleased with this 4 book series.

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