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Mar 11, 2017MelanieED rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
My son gave this to me for Christmas, a thoughtful gift as he knew I had devoured Bujold's works and was jonesing for missing books from her World of the Five Gods series. For that reason, the book is dear to me. Critically, I liked the book and didn't in almost equal measure--I stopped and restarted it several times when annoyed with what repeatedly jarred to me as characters not acting or speaking as people actually do, or worse, inconsistently within their own characters or action lines as developed--inconsistent motivation, action, and annoying skips in emotional intelligence--or so it seemed to me. I liked much of the magical theory, liked the storytelling very much in parts, and was impressed with a distinct world easy to visualize and remember well after the book is over. I also had a major question I'd been waiting to have answered still unanswered at the end of the book.