The Sharing Knife Series by Lois McMaster Bujold

3.92 · 153 ratings
  • Beguilement (The Sharing Knife #1)
    #1

    Beguilement (The Sharing Knife #1)

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings · published 2006

    Alternate Cover edition here.Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm. Enroute to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers. The necromancers armed with human bone knives fight "malices", immortal entities that draw out life, enslaving humans and animals. Dag saves Fawn from a malice - at a devastating cost. Their fates are now bound in a remarkable journey.

  • Legacy (The Sharing Knife #2)
    #2

    Legacy (The Sharing Knife #2)

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 2007

    One of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold has won numerous accolades and awards, including the Nebula and Locus Awards as well as the fantasy and science fiction genre’s most prestigious honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, four times (most recently for Paladin of Souls)... more

  • The Sharing Knife / Beguilement and Legacy (The Sharing Knife #1-2)
    #1-2

    The Sharing Knife / Beguilement and Legacy (The Sharing Knife #1-2)

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2006

    When a young Lakewalker, Dag, and a young girl, Fawn, work together to kill a malice. the act binds their fates together.

  • Passage (The Sharing Knife #3)
    #3

    Passage (The Sharing Knife #3)

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 2008

    Fawn and necromancer-patroller husband Dag seek solutions to the perilous split between their peoples, joined by her brother Whit, two novice patrollers, a flatboat captain searching for her vanished father and fiancé, a shrewd backwoods hunter, and a farmer boy unintentionally beguiled by Dag's growing magery.

  • Horizon (The Sharing Knife #4)
    #4

    Horizon (The Sharing Knife #4)

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 2009

    Fawn's husband Dag apprentices to a master groundsetter. But the camp has rigid mores with respect to farmers like Fawn's people. The pair must answer the question posed when they killed their first malice together: When old traditions fail, can their untried new ways win?

  • Knife Children (The Sharing Knife #4.5)
    #4.5

    Knife Children (The Sharing Knife #4.5)

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2019

    Lakewalker Barr Foxbrush returns from two years of patrolling the bitter wilds of Luthlia against the enigmatic, destructive entities called malices, only to find that the secret daughter he'd left behind in the hinterland of Oleana has disappeared from her home after a terrible accusation. The search for her will call on more of Barr's mind and heart than just his mage powers, as he tries to balance his mistakes of the past and his most personal duties to the future... more

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