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Very different. I mean, it's Bujold, so it's very good, but it's not the same as Chalion at all. Sharing Knife is more of a romance. It's a lot quieter, more focused on the individuals involved.
I remember when I first read Sharing Knife, my initial reaction was that Bujold inverted the standard fantasy trilogy. In most fantasy trilogies, each book contains a plot, but stretches the romance over the trilogy. Yet Sharing Knife seemed to do the opposite. It seemed to stretch the plot over the future books, but compressed the romance into the first book.
I'm not really sure if that made sense, and the future books in the series have sort of invalidated that observation, but that was my reaction after finishing the first book of Sharing Knife.
I like the series a lot, but it is very different from the Chalion books.
Asmo said:
Very different. I mean, it's Bujold, so it's very good, but it's not the same as Chalion at all. Sharing Knife is more of a romance. It's a lot quieter, more focused on the individuals involved.
I remember when I first read Sharing Knife, my initial reaction was that Bujold inverted the standard fantasy trilogy. In most fantasy trilogies, each book contains a plot, but stretches the romance over the trilogy. Yet Sharing Knife seemed to do the opposite. It seemed to stretch the plot over the future books, but compressed the romance into the first book.
I'm not really sure if that made sense, and the future books in the series have sort of invalidated that observation, but that was my reaction after finishing the first book of Sharing Knife.
I like the series a lot, but it is very different from the Chalion books.
