I know most people love LMB for her Vorkosigan Saga (and I know it's awesome), but the World of the Five Gods is so much closer to my heart, the worldbuilding so complex, the characters more interesting and relatable. I guess I have been too burned out on space military sagas, no matter how good they are.
Fun fact about The Curse of Chalion. I've purchased it twice in paperback (one as mass market, once in the re-issued trade), once as an Audible (pre-Amazon) audiobook, once as an Amazon Kindle e-book, and once as an Apple epub.
I recently reread it (for the 20th?) time, and it is still one of my all-time favorite fantasy novels, it still resonates with me. The direct sequel, Paladin of Souls is just as good. The third full length novel, The Hallowed Hunt, which is, rather confusingly and without any explanation, set 200 years earlier, is good, but not as good. There's an on-going series of novellas set about 150 years before the Curse of Chalion in an adjacent kingdom, called Penric & Desdemona which is quite splendid.
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Date: 2025-05-05 05:50 pm (UTC)Fun fact about The Curse of Chalion. I've purchased it twice in paperback (one as mass market, once in the re-issued trade), once as an Audible (pre-Amazon) audiobook, once as an Amazon Kindle e-book, and once as an Apple epub.
I recently reread it (for the 20th?) time, and it is still one of my all-time favorite fantasy novels, it still resonates with me. The direct sequel, Paladin of Souls is just as good. The third full length novel, The Hallowed Hunt, which is, rather confusingly and without any explanation, set 200 years earlier, is good, but not as good. There's an on-going series of novellas set about 150 years before the Curse of Chalion in an adjacent kingdom, called Penric & Desdemona which is quite splendid.