The Hallowed Hunt (Chalion, Book 3)
by Lois McMaster Bujold | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0060574623 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0060574623 Global Overview for this book
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Unabridged, 16 hrs 23 min. Audible download burned to CD's.
This is the third book in the Chalion series, although book 2 and book 3 can be read in any order because there's absolutely no overlap in the plot or characters at all. Seriously -- zip.
And I loved it of course! Loved the characters, loved the twists, loved the setting.... The possessed man teams up with the murderess and not surprisingly, they've got some problems. (Murder a prince and someone's bound to notice.) I swear, if Bujold wrote it, I've got to have it! Oh, and I've never heard this narrator before, but she's lovely to listen to. In fact, I read one review by a guy who didn't love the story so much, but couldn't stop listening just because he liked her voice! (But dude, what's not to like about the story? He never said.)
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The absorbing third installment in Bujold's epic fantasy series (after The Curse of Chalion and the Hugo-winning Paladin of Souls) links a disinherited swordsman hero with a beguiling damsel accused of murdering a royal prince in a land worshiping five gods, menaced by encroaching neighbors and swarming with ancient magic and lethal political intrigue. Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff, sent by the kingdom's sealmaster to fetch orphaned Lady Ijada to trial, soon learns they both unwillingly bear animal spirits received in forbidden power rites stretching centuries back into the primeval Weald. With the aged Hallow King now dying, Ingrey and Ijada journey toward the king's hall at Easthome, falling into a love that appears doomed, while Ingrey's powerful fey cousin, Lord Wencel, spins a cunning web of bloodthirsty ambition that binds them to him in an unholy trinity. Though the book's complicated magical-religious structure requires considerable suspension of disbelief, Bujold brings to life a multitude of convincing secondary characters, especially skaldic warrior-poet Prince Jokol and his ice bear, Fafa. Bujold's ability to sustain a breathless pace of action while preserving a heady sense of verisimilitude in a world of malignant wonders makes this big novel occasionally brilliant—and not a word too long.
This is the third book in the Chalion series, although book 2 and book 3 can be read in any order because there's absolutely no overlap in the plot or characters at all. Seriously -- zip.
And I loved it of course! Loved the characters, loved the twists, loved the setting.... The possessed man teams up with the murderess and not surprisingly, they've got some problems. (Murder a prince and someone's bound to notice.) I swear, if Bujold wrote it, I've got to have it! Oh, and I've never heard this narrator before, but she's lovely to listen to. In fact, I read one review by a guy who didn't love the story so much, but couldn't stop listening just because he liked her voice! (But dude, what's not to like about the story? He never said.)
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The absorbing third installment in Bujold's epic fantasy series (after The Curse of Chalion and the Hugo-winning Paladin of Souls) links a disinherited swordsman hero with a beguiling damsel accused of murdering a royal prince in a land worshiping five gods, menaced by encroaching neighbors and swarming with ancient magic and lethal political intrigue. Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff, sent by the kingdom's sealmaster to fetch orphaned Lady Ijada to trial, soon learns they both unwillingly bear animal spirits received in forbidden power rites stretching centuries back into the primeval Weald. With the aged Hallow King now dying, Ingrey and Ijada journey toward the king's hall at Easthome, falling into a love that appears doomed, while Ingrey's powerful fey cousin, Lord Wencel, spins a cunning web of bloodthirsty ambition that binds them to him in an unholy trinity. Though the book's complicated magical-religious structure requires considerable suspension of disbelief, Bujold brings to life a multitude of convincing secondary characters, especially skaldic warrior-poet Prince Jokol and his ice bear, Fafa. Bujold's ability to sustain a breathless pace of action while preserving a heady sense of verisimilitude in a world of malignant wonders makes this big novel occasionally brilliant—and not a word too long.
