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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A NICE story about NICE people, 27 Jul 2008
I enjoyed this book (and the previous two) immensely. It somehow made a change to read about a hero and heroine who were married, finding themselves in each other, and struggling to achieve an end that satisfied them both. The whole book, designed around a river journey with only one really tense event, seems to drift along rather like a quiet stream, but a pleasantly calm stream that left me feeling - well just tiny bit better than when I started it.
Most fantasy nowadays deals with families massacred, heroes left with nothing facing death and disaster, heroines blind or maimed, societies ruined, villages burnt. Traitors abound, truth is scarce, and betrayal the nature of almost every character. OK so it's like that in the real world (well a bit anyway). Not in the Sharing Knife books - and it is a pleasant change. Surely we read fantasy to escape - well I do anyway. Enough despair in Eastenders if that's what you want! There is some unpleasantness but that's only to be expected however, in general, the characters are, on the whole nice people at meeting or turn into nice people later.
I suppose one word describes this book, and the others, NICE. And that isn't a bad thing in today's world (in fact and fantasy). Dag and Fawn take centre stage but are surrounded by a well drawn cast of supporters in this third book.
True, it doesn't go very far or take them forward (in the development of their marriage, or that of Fawn or Dag), but one gets a good idea of where they are going.
I wonder, is this the last book. If it is there are a number of unanswered questions about the fantasy world in which Dag and Fawn live. Many clues appear in the text and seem to need either development or explanation. It also seems that Dag has not reached a final conclusion at the end not has Fawn found a place for them to live. So I for one would certainly like to read more of these two NICE people and will go back to the books now and again.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not up to her usual standards, 23 Oct 2008
I don't belive this series is one of her best.
Its like a slow ramble across a countryside, with all the time in the world in your hands, you just admire the view and see things that you would probably miss if you were walking at a gallop. This is a romance with a differences, with her 2 hero's being of different cultures/beliefs etc, and I don't think romance really is her forte and she even brings sex into it, something that I don't think she's ever done before.....
Saying that though, I still enjoy all her books, but if you want to see her at her very best, (and there's not many authors around that can beat her)then I would suggest The Curse of Chalion series or the Miles Vorkosigan series, and you will see why she can't be beaten for her prose, descriptions, depth of her characters, and her command of the english language.
She can and has done much better.....
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good conclusion to the series., 21 Jul 2008
A clear improvement from the second book, Passage concludes the trilogy with Dag and Fawn cutting the ties to both the Farmer and Lakewalker sides of their family, and starting out on a journey to the sea, to find their new selves after leaving the old roles behind.
Having seen almost an whole village of farmers succumb to an Malice out of ignorance (in book 2),Dag decides that the old lakewalker way of dealing with "civilians" must change, and sets out for a way to educate farmers about Lakewalker ways and "magic", and the threats their fighting, something that goes against all Lakewalker tradition.
Most of the book takes place while traveling on a riverboat down to the sea, and revolves around the companions they collect and meet along the way.
As always with Bujold, it's a well written book that draws you in and keeps you reading, but in comparison to her earlier works it feels a bit lacking in both characterisation and story, and overall feels a bit light.
An entertaining read, but not something that you want to reread frequently for the pleasure of it.
But overall a good book and good ending to the series.
(And if you thought the plot outline was a bit thin, I wanted to stay away from spoilers, as I felt the blurb on the book gave away to much :D)
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