8.6 /10 1 Votes8.6
9/10 Fantasy Book Review Country United States Originally published August 2001 Genre Fantasy Fiction | 4.2/5 Goodreads Cover artist Doug Beekman Language English Publication date August 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback), E-book Awards Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Similar Works by Lois McMaster Bujold, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature winners, Romance novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The curse of chalion book review
The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold. In 2002 it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus Fantasy Awards in 2002.
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- The curse of chalion book review
- Review the curse of chalion by lois mcmaster bujold
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Both The Curse of Chalion and its sequel Paladin of Souls (2003) are set in the landlocked medieval kingdom of Chalion. The Hallowed Hunt (2005) is a novel that takes place in the Weald to the south of Chalion and two to three hundred years earlier.
Review the curse of chalion by lois mcmaster bujold
Plot summary
Lupe dy Cazaril, a castillar (a knight or minor baron), returns home to the Royacy (Kingdom) of Chalion a broken man, though he is only 35 years old. "Caz", as he is known to his friends, had defended a castle during a long siege, only to be ordered to surrender it. Afterward, a jealous enemy had seen to it that he was not ransomed (as were the rest of his men), but sold into slavery, spending 19 months as a galley slave before finally being rescued.
His old noble patroness finds a use for him as secretary-tutor to her granddaughter, the 15-year-old Royesse (Princess) Iselle - half-sister to Orico, Roya (King) of Chalion - and her companion, 19-year-old Lady Betriz. Caz finds himself attracted to Betriz.
Despite his ardent desire to live a safely low-profile, peaceful life, Caz finds himself drawn into a strange journey fraught with political and spiritual dangers when Iselle and her younger brother Teidez, heir to the childless Orico, are ordered to join their half-brother's court. There, Caz encounters his betrayer, Dondo dy Jironel, the debauched younger brother of the Chancellor, the latter the power behind the throne of the ineffectual Orico.
He gradually discovers that a black curse hangs over the royal family of Chalion, one that he seeks to dispel for Iselle's sake.