The relationship the author crafts between the young, inquisitive and wide-eyed farmer girl with the world-weary, much older Dag is realistic and touching. Bujold to do away with the external threat, and focus on the characters instead. While most fantasy stories tend to focus on some looming showdown to be concluded in the last quarter of the book, I found it intriguing for Ms. Fawn and Dag take on the Malice and defeat it in the first third of the first bookâand from there, the rest of the story is focused on how the two of them learn to abandon the prejudices of their respective people, and fall head over heels in love. First and foremost, this story really is a romance (so I do understand why certain fantasy readers might have been disappointed with the book).
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