Beguilement
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Beguilement”, the first book of Lois McMaster Bujold’s “The Sharing Knife”, is above all a romance set against a fantasy backdrop. Readers expecting epic fantasy may be surprised. Some praise Bujold’s graceful prose and a story that stands on its own instead of ending on a cliffhanger. Others find the central romance unconvincing, with a wide age gap between the lovers and a heroine they see as thinly drawn.
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About the book
The Sharing Knife: Beguilement is a fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2006. It is the first book in the series The Sharing Knife.
Reading order · The Sharing Knife
Full order & progress →- BeguilementThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - Legacy
7.97.9 / 10 - Passage
–Not ranked yet - Horizon
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 76 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 6 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 70 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is Beguilement?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 82% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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