Legacy
- 377
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Legacy”, the second volume of Lois McMaster Bujold’s “The Sharing Knife”, is a warm, character-driven blend of romance and fantasy. Some readers praise its believable world, its magic and the quiet humour of the characters’ inner asides, and find that it stands as a book in its own right. Others note slow patches and a step down from the first volume, or give up on the wedding-night scene that opens the book.
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About the book
The Sharing Knife: Legacy is a fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2007. It is the second book in the tetralogy The Sharing Knife.
Reading order · The Sharing Knife
Full order & progress →- BeguilementStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - LegacyThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Passage
–Not ranked yet - Horizon
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 53 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.7 | 7 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 46 | 87% |
Frequently asked
How long is Legacy?
It has 377 pages — shorter than 85% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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