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 enlarge | Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Publisher: Eos
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 29427
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0061375330
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061375330
ASIN: 0061375330
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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 A Leisurely Journey Down a River June 17, 2008
I enjoyed this book. It was like spending some time with interesting people while floating down a river. There isn't a whole lot of excitement but it's a pleasant journey. I'm looking forward to the final book in the series.
 Terrific continuation of a fine series June 7, 2008
With Passage, Bujold continues the saga of Dag, a Lakewalker and Fawn, his farmer wife. The two have left Dag's community because many there disapprove of the inter-cultural marriage. After a brief visit to Fawn's family they head south for a voyage along the Grace river to the sea, bringing Fawn's younger brother Whit with them. On the way to the river, he uses his Lakewalker ability to manipulate "ground", the life force within all things, to heal another young traveler. These four take passage on a boat captained by a young woman, Berry, and crewed by her uncle and brother. As the boat heads downriver, they collect more strays and Dag continues to explore new uses for his ground abilities.
There are moments of intense action, including a climactic confrontation with a Lakewalker renegade, that punctuate the calmer rhythm of the rest of the story. As they journey, Dag struggles to determine his place in the world now that he is cut off from his people. Dag and Fawn continually attempt to educate all that they meet, whether Lakewalkers, farmers or boatmen about the possibility of everyone working together against the greater threats of the world. Although all of the particulars differ, there is still an echo of Huck Finn in this tale of travelers on a river, meeting a wide variety of folk and discovering their place in the world. The writing is beautiful and this book has something for everyone.
Earlier books in this series were good. This one's great. June 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Middle books in a series are often the hardest for an author to pull off. You need to move the story along, but you can't resolve too much or there's no reason to continue to volume 3. Yet it has to be good enough that readers *want* to keep reading. Even with an author as fine as Bujold, the second book in the Sharing Knife series suffered from this problem. Certainly, several reviewers were disappointed by Legacy. If you aren't sure if it's worth it to keep going and read Passage -- don't worry. Because she fulfills her promises. This is simply great.
Dag and Fawn, now four months into their marriage, head down the river to the sea, as that was one of Dag's promises to her. But the journey is an emotional one as well as geographic, as the couple tries to accomplish the goals they set for themselves: sharing understanding between "Lakewalkers" and "Farmers." They interact with lots of people from different levels of the society (I don't want to give away too much), and around every bend in the river they -- and we readers -- learn something new.
The writing has the same sweet caring and good humor you've come to expect from the characters in this series. Darnit, Bujold just creates such _likable_ people!
It's a VERY enjoyable read, I assure you. It's also good dense storytelling. Yes, it's totally different from Vor and Chalion. I like that; Bujold isn't becoming predictable.
I was sorry to come to the end May 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good buy if you have the other two books. Lois Mcmaster Bujold is one of my favourite writers and this book confirms this again for me.
I just love this series! Nice closure. May 21, 2008
I was so disappointed with the last book (when Dag and Fawn were kicked out of the Lakewalkers camp) because I thought it was the last one, and it didn't quite seem to finish the series. I hadn't realized this book was coming, which closed off the series nicely (but there's still room for more in this book-universe, so maybe we're not done yet). Dag and Fawn and her obnoxious younger brother (who grows up nicely) take a riverboat down the river and end up teaching a lot of Farmers about how Lakewalkers operate (and Dag keeps exploring his new powers). Still love these characters and the kindness and wisdom that imbues the book.
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