Penric's Demon (World of the Five Gods, #1.5)

author: Lois McMaster Bujold
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2016/07/16
date added: 2016/07/16
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'Penric's Demon' by Lois McMaster Bujold is a novella set in her World of the Five Gods series. She is a prolific writer and I have always loved the tone of her stories. This is no different.

Young Lord Penric is on his way to become engaged when he happens upon an accident. As an outcome of the accident, he finds himself by a Temple divine and a series of hosts that she has had previously. He has no experience with being this sort of host and he finds the series of women who now live in his body to be strange, but they find Penric charming. He finds himself the target of people who want the demon removed from him and transferred somewhere else. Will his wits, and the help of his new internal friends, be enough to keep him alive?

There is adventure and humor and everything else I love in Bujold's writing. I'm more familiar with her space opera series, but she is a capable fantasy writer as well. I found Penric a bumbling protagonist caught in a situation that is over his head, but able to improvise his way through the situation. The charm of Bujold's characters are the way they triumph in spite of their flaws.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Subterranean Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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