Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Sharing Knife: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold

I found this book through an author read-alike search on NoveList for Juliet Marillier - one of my all time favorite historical fantasy writers.  Beguilement is about a young girl who runs away from home because she is pregnant.  On her way south to look for work she is kidnapped and then rescued by a man who is a Lakewalker - something like a cross between a ranger and a sorcerer.  What they don't tell you at the beginning of the book is that the young girl is only 18 and the strapping Lakewalker man is flippin' 55 years old.  We learn this on page 269 of 355.  After they've spent the entire book spending lots of *cough* time together and the girl asking so many questions about the birds and the bees that you have to wonder how she managed to get pregnant in the first place.  So if you're interested in pedophilia and a little sex-ed, read this book.  If you think you can somehow pretend that two oddly matched people aren't trying to mate the entire time, this book actually has a very interesting (side) plot dealing with magic and evil creatures in the land.  This is actually a trilogy and if I had more time to waste I would probably read them.  Who knows, maybe someday I will.  For now though, I think I'm going to have to take NoveList's recommendations with a larger grain of salt.

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