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_Dead to Me_, Anton Strout
_The Sharing Knife: Horizon_, Lois McMaster Bujold
The male protagonist cracks wise. Most people don't believe in the psychic or magic powers he has. The organized good guys have bureaucracy problems. The organized bad guys have political pull. The city is nominally New York but contains no flavor of the city at all. (I may not like NYC, but I understand what other people like about it, I think.) The comic situational bits aren't funny. The Big Evil postures and preens. The bureaucracy doesn't make sense, and there's no underlying system to the magic. Mneh.
Bujold, on the other hand, offers a satisfying wrapup to her trilogy in four volumes, _The Sharing Knife_. (The first two volumes, Beguilement and Legacy, are the split first book.) Continuing readers may recall that _Passage_ was a long float down the Mississippi-analog during which almost nothing happened except for that one episode... This book takes us back up the river, and everything happens except for one quiet period. Completely unsuitable as a starting point, but an excellent finish.
_The Sharing Knife: Horizon_, Lois McMaster Bujold
The male protagonist cracks wise. Most people don't believe in the psychic or magic powers he has. The organized good guys have bureaucracy problems. The organized bad guys have political pull. The city is nominally New York but contains no flavor of the city at all. (I may not like NYC, but I understand what other people like about it, I think.) The comic situational bits aren't funny. The Big Evil postures and preens. The bureaucracy doesn't make sense, and there's no underlying system to the magic. Mneh.
Bujold, on the other hand, offers a satisfying wrapup to her trilogy in four volumes, _The Sharing Knife_. (The first two volumes, Beguilement and Legacy, are the split first book.) Continuing readers may recall that _Passage_ was a long float down the Mississippi-analog during which almost nothing happened except for that one episode... This book takes us back up the river, and everything happens except for one quiet period. Completely unsuitable as a starting point, but an excellent finish.
