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]

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.