The Hallowed Hunt- Lois McMaster Bujold
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Title: The Hallowed Hunt
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Read By: Marguerite Gavin
Copyright: 2005
Audiobook Copyright: 2007
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Series Name: World of the Five Gods
Position in Series: 03
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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The absorbing third installment in Bujold’s epic fantasy
series (after The Curse of Chalion and the Hugo-winning Paladin of Souls)
links a disinherited swordsman hero with a beguiling damsel accused
of murdering a royal prince in a land worshiping five gods, menaced
by encroaching neighbors and swarming with ancient magic and lethal
political intrigue. Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff, sent by the kingdom’s
sealmaster to fetch orphaned Lady Ijada to trial, soon learns they both
unwillingly bear animal spirits received in forbidden power rites stretching
centuries back into the primeval Weald. With the aged Hallow King now
dying, Ingrey and Ijada journey toward the king’s hall at Easthome,
falling into a love that appears doomed, while Ingrey’s powerful fey
cousin, Lord Wencel, spins a cunning web of bloodthirsty ambition that
binds them to him in an unholy trinity. Though the book’s complicated
magical-religious structure requires considerable suspension of disbelief,
Bujold brings to life a multitude of convincing secondary characters,
especially skaldic warrior-poet Prince Jokol and his ice bear, Fafa.
Bujold’s ability to sustain a breathless pace of action while preserving
a heady sense of verisimilitude in a world of malignant wonders makes
this big novel occasionally brilliantùand not a word too long.
From Booklist
Here Bujold returns to the world of The Curse of Chalion (2001) and
Paladin of Souls (2003) to show us intrigue and mystery in yet another
land. Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff has been sent to the estate of Prince
Bolesco, the half-mad son of the king of the Weald. The prince has been
murdered, and Ingrey is to investigate. The accused is an orphaned young
noblewoman. But the prince had been dabbling in forbidden sorcery, it
seems, and the young woman lies under an ill-cast spell. Despite his
ostensible duty to the royal family, Ingrey is drawn toward protecting
the accused from those who want to hang her as the quickest way of hushing
things up, as well as from the church, which might kill in an attempt
to cure her. Bujold’s reworking of a classic romantic situation is distinguishe-
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d by its setting in a well-crafted world and masterly creation of characters
whose fates will keep readers turning the pages. Frieda Murray
Copyright ⌐ American Library Association. All rights reserved
An acclaimed legend in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois
McMaster Bujold returns to the vivid and perilous world of her previous
masterworks, the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls and Hugo and World
Fantasy Award-nominated The Curse of Chalion, with an epic tale of devotion
and strange destiny.
Prince Boleso is dead — slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile.–
Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff has been dispatched to the remote castle of
the late, exiled, half-mad royal to transport the body to its burial
place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to judgment. Ingrey’s
mission is an ugly and delicate one, for the imminent death of the old
Hallow King has placed the crown in play, and the murder of his youngest
son threatens to further roil already treacherous political waters.
But there is more here than a prince’s degenerate lusts and the fatal
retribution it engendered. Boleso’s dark act, though unfinished, inadvertently
bestowed an unwanted mystical ""gift"" upon proud, brave Ijada that
must ultimately mean her doom — a curse similar to one with which Ingrey
himself has been burdened since boyhood.
A forbidden spirit now inhabits the soul of Ijada, giving her senses
she never wished for and an obligation no one sane would desire. At
once psychically linked to the remarkable lady and repelled by what
she carries within, Ingrey fears the havoc his own inner beast could
wreak while on their journey, as he fights a powerful growing attraction
… and an equally powerful compulsion to kill.
The road they travel together is beset with dangers — and though duty-bound
to deliver Ijada to an almost certain execution, Ingrey soon realizes
that she is the only one he dares trust. For a malevolent enemy with
designs on a troubled kingdom holds Ingrey in his sway — and without
Ijada’s aid and love, the haunted lord will never be able to break free
and realize the great and terrible destiny bestowed upon him by the
gods, the damned, and the dead.
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