Paladin of Souls Paladin of Souls
Book 2 - Chalion Series

Paladin of Souls

A Hugo Award Winner

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Publisher Description

One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.

Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -- for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road -- escape -- beckons. . . . A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion.

Yet something else is free, too -- something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border -- humans, demons, gods.

Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista's retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears -- a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion's castle cannot ease Ista's mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods' own weaving.

In her dreams the threads are already drawing her to unforeseen chances, fateful meetings, fearsome choices. What the inscrutable gods commanded of her in the past brought her land to the brink of devastation. Now, once again, they have chosen Ista as their instrument. And again, for good or for ill, she must comply.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2009
October 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
496
Pages
PUBLISHER
Harper Voyager
SELLER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Laurel Landmary ,

Paladin of Souls

Wide, sweeping vistas of landscapes, theologies, cultures, and the clashes that occur over all three. The author adds a dash of romance and its pitfalls, too.

Marina Ariadne ,

Improves on rereading

Or at least right after Curse of Chalion.

This is my first reread after reading all the Penric novellas, and I have a much better feel for the “Chalionverse”. Rereading this —and Curse of Chalion—was not the slog it was the first time around.

Some things really do improve after a bit of aging. Then again, with age sometimes one forgets much of what was read before, and it’s all new again.

inkspottedtea ,

Better than the first.

Bujold's second Chalion novel is stunningly fantastic. I highly recommend it!

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