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Darksight Dare
A Fantasy Novel by Lois McMaster Bujold
Companion Book to the World of the Five Gods: Penric & Desdemona Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Sword and Sorcery,
- Healing Magic,
- Demon Companion
This book is for you if you're into...
- Fantasy where magic and medicine collide in unexpected ways
- Sorcerers juggling both human and demonic dilemmas
Penric takes a chance… Two intractable problems are brought to the door of sorcerer Learned Penric of Vilnoc and his Temple demon Desdemona.
Cinar Camurat, a mutilated Cedonian cavalry captain, has traveled two thousand sea miles to Penric for aid. Iva of Bita, a secret hedge sorceress, lies dying in her Orban hill village, and wants no aid at all.
Penric and Desdemona know well the hazards of medicine and magic, but their greatest puzzle may lodge in the tangle of hopes and fears in human and demonic hearts.
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