Beguiled.

[azurelunatic]

Lois McMaster Bujold continues to raise the bar on what kind of material is considered worthy of a Hugo. If you haven't yet read The Sharing Knife: Beguilement and you trust my taste in fantasy novels, go out and get it. If that's not in the cards, then beg a friend to borrow their copy.

I'd read it for the fantasy even without the love story; I'd read it for the love story even without the fantasy.

I'm a bit too bouncy to avoid spoilers, and anyway it needs a second read-through before it'll sit tight in my head enough to stay put. I bought it the other night on errands and then completely evaded reading it until I knew I'd have a good solid chance to sit down with it. I managed to put it down long enough to drive from the plasma place to the store, read it while wheeling around the cart getting groceries, put it down again to drive home, and just now finished it.

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[thette.livejournal.com]

KJ enjoyed it greatly. I have a hundred pages of birth control I want to read before getting into it.

[azurelunatic]

Good luck on the birth control! I applaud your restraint, as it's verily a "don't want to put this down" book.

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

I started The Sharing Knife at 2:30 this morning, planning to read a few pages for the feel of it before I went back to sleep, since Ange finished it after I went to bed last night. I finished it at 6. I really should have known better, but damn. I am now very cranky to see that Amazon lists the release date of the second part for July 1, 2007.

[azurelunatic]

Heh, heh, heh.