Paladin of Souls
ISBN:
9780007133598 (0007133596)
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
Epic,
High Fantasy,
Romance,
Speculative Fiction,
Mythology,
Gods
Series: Chalion (#2)
Paladin of Souls was my favorite of the three. It takes place about three years after the events in the first book and follows the adventures of Ista, the former Royina (Queen, I guess) of Chalion, and Iselle's mother. Poor Ista has had a very difficult life and now everyone thinks she's crazy. She'...
"Paladin of Souls", the second chapter of Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion trilogy is just as fantastic as "The Curse of Chalion" and maybe slightly better. Shifting the focus from Cazaril and royal court, Bujold followed the formerly mad dowager royina Ista through a false pilgrimage into the heart o...
Paladin of Souls (Chalion, #2) by Lois McMaster Bujold Paladin of Souls is a fantastic story, a tale of reluctant saints and enigmatic gods, of isolation and reconciliation and redemption. In the first novel in the series, The Curse of Chalion, we followed the journey of the ever-forgiving, ever-no...
I loved this even more than the first book in this world, The Curse of Chalion--and I loved Chalion a lot, which was my first book by Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold was well known before these high fantasy works for a science fiction series, the Vorkosigan Saga. And after her fantasy I turned to those...
A nearly perfect book, and one I'm already thinking I should reread. Ista is bitter, prickly, mature, and complex; she may be one of my favorite heroines from the past year. As a side note, this is a great example of having a stable of female characters with divergent agendas who are not strictly di...
11 years ago
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