A mini-review

[sraun]

I just finished an ARC of The Sharing Knife: Passage.

Lois did a wonderful job of taking a very small molehill from one of the earlier books, and sticking a mountain under it.

Lots of Dag & Fawn. Whit joins them, and grows up! Everyone learns stuff. I'd say this one is more on the fantasy side of the fantasy/romance cross-over, but I'm guessing there's enough romance to keep the romance fans interested.

There's some serious heart-wrenching in this one! Oh, that poor girl!

From what little time I've spent floating on a river (used to go out for weekend days on the Missouri when I visited my grand-parents), I'd say she got the rivers right!

Comments

[msss.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... does this book have a proper ending? I'm still leaning towards waiting for Horizon to come out before reading Passage, after what Lois said about 2-book arcs.

[carbonel]

It depends what you mean by "a proper ending." It doesn't end on a cliffhanger, and the story that it's about pretty much comes to an end, but you do get somewhat of a feel for what the sequel will be about, though it's only touched upon.

(I've read both Passage and its sequel, being lucky enough to be one of Lois' first readers.)

[msss.livejournal.com]

Mmm... okay. No cliffhanger is good. But does the end of Passage seem much like the last two endings in style? (I know, YMMV, but I really hated the end of Legacy (personal triggers), and I wasn't enthralled with Beguilement, so I'm beginning to think that I should steer clear of this series.)

[sraun]

Well, it's not a 'riding off into the sunset' ending, although there is implied travel coming up in the next book. The problems set up within the book are mostly resolved, the unresolved elements are related to the systemic issues of the Lakewalkers and Farmers co-existing. Dag learns things, but he still hasn't really started to find a solution. I think that he can better state the problem after this book - after Legacy, he saw that there was a problem, but it wasn't really clear to him what the boundaries/scope were/was. After this, he's got a much better handle on it.