The Curse of Chalion

Author - Lois McMaster Bujold ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book was reviewed on 9-Dec-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book The Curse of Chalion by . I´ve been a fan of LMB for a while, having read most of the Vorkosigan series. This was a really great read - fantastical, mystical, with just a touch of cynicism and humor to spice it up. The plot twists kept me guessing until the end. In many ways, it has the flavor of The Name of the Rose, which I also loved.¤

2) Hardcover Book The Curse of Chalion by . Lois Bujold is a brilliant writer. I loved the characters, flaws and all I became wrapped up in their lives. While I was listening everything around me disappeared. The Authors descriptions say so much in so few words. The story just picked me up and took me along. There are such strong relationships between so many of the characters it seemed to add magic to the story.

I would have to say this story is now up there my favourites of all my listening.¤

3) Hardcover Book The Curse of Chalion by . I should preface my review with the fact that this is my first reading of Bujold and that I had read many reviews about this book before picking it up.

I really enjoyed the initial setting-up of the story and the tone that was set. However, immediately after this came a ´stretch out´ where the prose dragged down the pace and the story slowed with extraneous detail.

Other reviews had mentioned this, and it was because of those reviews that I was prepared for such style, and I finished the book undeterred - which I am glad I did. The storyline is great, but 100 pages less, and the book would have been a much better fit for me.¤

4) Hardcover Book The Curse of Chalion by . This book was well written and had a very well developed, fascinating culture and belief system. Cazaril was an intruguing character. But, by the end I was struggling to finish it. I thought the ending was pretty predictable, and overall the book was perhaps a bit too short on action and excitement.¤

5) Hardcover Book The Curse of Chalion by . This is the anti-miles book. Miles does not participate, and the hero here seems to be almost his opposite in every way. He´s painfully modest, and quite restrained. Fortunately, it turns out that this is one of the best books ever written by anyone. It totally rocks, in every way. If you´ve gotten this far, just buy this book now.

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6) Hardcover Book The Curse of Chalion by .

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril returns to the noble household he once served as page and is named secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions.

But it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge -- an act that will mark him as a tool of the miraculous . . . and trap him in a lethal maze of demonic paradox.

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