Legacy (Bujold novel)
 Cover of first edition (hardcover) | |
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Cover artist | Julie Bell |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Sharing Knife, Vol. 2 |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Eos (HarperCollins) |
Publication date | July, 2007 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print Hardbound & Paperback & AudioBook |
| Pages | 377 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN-10 0-0611-3905-X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | Beguilement |
| Followed by | Passage |
Plot synopsis
Legacy is the immediate sequel to Beguilement in the Sharing Knife series. It follows the fraught pairing of Farmer's daughter Fawn and Lakewalker maverick Dag to his clan's home camp at Hickory Lake, where they find the expected prejudices against miscegynation between Farmers and Lakewalkers. Fawn carries her heroine role through by thinking through a way to revive him, along with several other Lakewalkers who have been entranced in the mud-man-making process left behind after Dag has carried his hero role through by killing an extremely advanced malice.
Neither achievement carries enough weight with Dag's brother and mother to make them relent in their efforts to break this pairing. These two carry the role of villains, but drawn so that the reasons for their awkward quirks are clear. The intricate swirl of weak and strong characters in a small community should be familiar to any observer of the human condition, and Lois is a very acute observer.
So, Lakewalker customs being as open to asinine purposes as are our laws, Dag and Fawn take as many mobile assets as they can and set out in chosen exile towards the southeast. There, Dag guesses he may be able to confirm his ideas about the near kinship of Farmers to Lakewalkers, and to find ways to combine their efforts toward the eradication of malices. These themes will presumably unfold in the next pair of books.