6/30/2023 0 Comments The curse of chalion series![]() ![]() Half out of pity, he is entrusted with a position as tutor to an intelligent and spirited young princess - a safe job for a broken man, his benefactors mistakenly believe. ![]() After suffering inhuman horrors as a prisoner of war and galley slave, the former courtier returns to a court he served in his boyhood, broken in body and tested in spirit, unable to fit into the world where he once belonged. Having somehow managed to avoid reading any of Bujold’s other acclaimed books (an omission I plan to rectify), I came to this work fresh, not burdened by the expectation of another installment of the Vorkosigan Saga that seems to have kept some of her loyal fans from appreciating this departure into fantasy and her detractors from giving this book a try.Ĭazaril, a man raised in privilege but shaped by tragedy into a wiser, more compassionate, less hopeful man, is the protagonist and the heart of this novel. Lois McMaster Bujold’s epic fantasy The Curse of Chalion begins as a courtly intrigue but develops into a true mythopoeic fantasy, exploring the nature of miracles and the relationship between the human and the divine. (These two reviews originally appeared in Mythprint 38:3 (#228) in March 2001.) ![]()
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