Re: Sharing Knife: Passage

On Apr 27, 9:48=A0pm, "Dan Tilque" <dtil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Mike G." <rmgir...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> > On Apr 27, 1:59 am, Mark_Reich...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >> Anybody else purchased and read it yet?
>
> > Yes. =A0It was an excellent read.
>
> > If you liked the first 2, you'll like this one too.
>
> And some people who didn't like the first two may like this. Some people
> were turned off by the fact that the first two were a romance
> (originally written as a single book, but broken in two to make more
> money) with some fantasy trappings. Or at least that's one way of
> looking at it. It'd be equally valid to see them as fantasy with a big
> chunk of romance.
>
> Anyway _Passage_ is not a romance, so perhaps those people who rejected
> the first two for that reason may want to give this one a try. Like most
> Bujold, it's possible to read this one without having read the others in
> the same series.

Well, it has the advantage that problems with the relations don't make
up a major ****tion of the plot.<g>

Thus, we spend more time seeing the Ohio, er, Grace Valley and the
world away from the malice war.