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The Hallowed Hunt
by Lois Mc
About this book
Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the vivid, perilous world of her previous masterworks, the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls and Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated The Curse of Chalion, with this tale of devotion and strange destiny. The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. His mission is an ugly and delicate one, for the imminent death of the old Hallow King has placed the crown in play, and the road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey's destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B000P6R51Q
Reader Reviews
January 17, 2014
I've read all three books of the \"Chalion\" series by Bujold. And I often have trouble deciding which one is my favorite because it always seems to be the one I'm re-reading at the moment! However, as I am re-reading The Hallowed Hunt, that is where my thoughts are flowing and focused in the trilogy at this time. Which led me to meandering in the reviews of The Wild Hunt here on Amazon. In this, my \"review\", I will do a review of the book itself, and then I mean to respond to themes that...
June 19, 2005
The Hallowed Hunt is not at all a sequel to The Curse Of Chalion or Paladin Of Souls ... and yet the new reader would almost certainly be missing quite a bit without having read those two books. The world of these books is something similar to but not quite like medieval Europe. But the religion is based upon a theology of five gods. And so is the series of books (the first one for the Daughter, the second for the Bastard, and this one for the Son). There are no common characters or even...
October 22, 2018
This series began with the Curse of Chalion and continued with the Paladin of Souls. The Hallowed Hunt does not include any of the characters from the first two books, but it is set in the same universe. The story would stand alone, but it is best to read the others first so that you are familiar with the five Gods, the temple, and death rituals. Even with the familiarity, the beginning of this complex novel is challenging. This is a story of souls, of animal spirits, of possession, of passion,...
July 27, 2005
There is one author whose books I buy immediately, in whatever format is available, and her name is Lois McMaster Bujold. If I could afford it, I would have a person stationed outside her house with instructions to ship me the galleys as soon as corrected. Right after I had finished my third or fourth re-reading of the superb Paladin of Souls, the second book in this series, The Hallowed Hunt arrived, and I think it the equal of any Bujold book, but differently shaped. Bujold's great theme, in...
June 13, 2018
When Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff is sent to bring Prince Boleso’s body and his murderer back to Easthome, he becomes convinced that Lady Ijada was acting in self defence - and that no one else will want to accept that. Things quickly get much more complicated. Someone is trying to stop Ijada from reaching her trial alive, and Ingrey's history with a heretical rite of the old kin warriors abruptly becomes very relevant. As the current hallowed king lies dying, Ingrey and Ijada are tangled up in...
