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Delightful new volume in the Penric series, enjoyed immense, wants more now, please. Penric is in trouble, but what else is new? He's running from a situation that looked likely to kill him, albeit slowly, only to run into a new situation that looks likely to kill him quickly. He must rescue himself, rescue a blinded general and his sister, and even rescue another sorcerer from Being Stupid With a Demon. All the while running for his life, of course. There is a momentary pause...

And then it stops! Yes, I knew it was short when I bought it, but I can still long for more.

Sigh. But I'll be happy with what I have. For now.


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Penric Mission Penric Desdemona Book 4 edition by Lois McMaster Bujold Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

This book takes place some years after Penric's Fox; Penric’s former employer, the Archdivine Princess Llewen had passed away and the new Archdivine at Easthome had brought her own sorcerer with her, so he’d needed to find a new position. Temporarily he is acting as an agent for the Duke of Adria, on a diplomatic mission to see if General Arisaydia of the Thasalan Empire might be interested in becoming a mercenary and leading the Adriac army in a war it was currently fighting, mostly to a stalemate. Only it turns out to be a set-up, and Penric finds himself in a dungeon, while Arisaydia is blinded by having boiling vinegar poured onto his eyes. Penric uses his magic to escape the dungeon, and finds his way to Arisaydia’s home, where he uses his medical skills to treat the general’s injuries and finds himself increasingly attracted to Arisaydia’s half-sister Nikys—both children of Arisaydia’s father (who’d been a general himself), but one by a wife and the other by a concubine, born on the same day. Most of the rest of the book deals with their fleeing the city where Nikys and Arisaydia lived and outwitting and evading the forces sent to recapture them.
This novella abounds with observations on light and the lack of it. Clarity of vision is contrasted with the blinding of a central character; the thrilling quality of an illuminated sky is juxtaposed with absolute darkness in a dungeon in the same city. For travelling cleric Penric with his demon companion Desdemona, this contrast is thrust upon them when the two (who share a single body, Penric's, are siezed in the course of a diplomatic mission, and shoved unceremoniusly into a dungeon oubliette.

Penric's captors meant to prevent him from using powers lent by his demon indweller. Instead, they force the two to expand those powers to create "action at a distance." Penric and Desdemona must visualize the flow of water through cracks in the rock surrounding them, and call on the Fifth God's love of chaos and dissolution to escape.

Further chaos and destruction ensue when Penric meets a young widow focused on helping her brother, the popular general who was the focus of Penric's mission. General Arisaydia has been deliberately blinded to set a hideous example for his men. As a martyr, he might become a rallying point; as a maimed man dependent on his sister, he is an object of pity.

Penric spends weeks hiding out with the two, determined to reverse the general's maiming. He hopes the cure will convince the general (and his sister) to come with him to the Duke of Adria, which will complete his mission. With the Bastard God and Desdemona involved, however, nothing could ever proceed as planned.

I loved the astute way Bujold played with physical and mental vision, using philosophical and emotional light and darkness as characters in her novel. Like a previous Bujold star, Miles VorKosigan, Penric is an intelligent young man with a crippling disability, whose story is always woven with dark threads of the reaction of others to his impairment, and the bright threads of his overcoming it.

Penric has far to go; I look forward to accompanying him on the next leg of his journey.
So great!
So short!
Ends at a point leaving me wanting so much more!

We meet Penric at the beginning of some kind of covert mission. He's undercover as a clerk. Then it gets interesting.
During the story we get glimpses of Penric's life after Penric and the Shaman and why he's out having adventure instead of safely tucked away copying documents or curing people's kidney stones or killing parasites.

Penric and Desdemona get to be awesome. They meet some new people.

My ONLY problem with this story is that it ended JUST before what I was sure was going to be a classic HEA (Happily Ever After).

Choosing to end it there was just purely for tormenting us. I am sure of it. *grin*
I am really enjoying the novella style for telling Penric and Desdamona's story. From a practical side of things, I'd much rather get 3 novellas in an 18-month period rather than 1 novel in a 3-year period - it's a bit like the old-fashioned serials. But I also like Lois has used this format from a narrative perspective. Between Penric's Shaman and Penrc's Mission some pretty important things happen to Penric which make for interesting character development, but which I wouldn't want to slog through in a story. The time skip between books allows us to learn those events through flashback, giving some emotional distance but still delivering a whallop.

Penric's Mission itself is probably my favorite of the Penric stories so far, including a possible love interest for Penric that I hope to see again very soon. )
I always, well almost always, love Bujold's books. But at 93 years I've become a wimp when it comes to reading about torture and suffering,. and there is some, not a lot, in this book. The character of the Penric, the protagonist becomes ever more complex.

The pace is variable. I wish gave that as an alternative for pace. Because most really good books do vary in pace,

PS. , i sure am fed up the new Paperwhite trying to trap me in your store instead of going to an old book for a reread.
Delightful new volume in the Penric series, enjoyed immense, wants more now, please. Penric is in trouble, but what else is new? He's running from a situation that looked likely to kill him, albeit slowly, only to run into a new situation that looks likely to kill him quickly. He must rescue himself, rescue a blinded general and his sister, and even rescue another sorcerer from Being Stupid With a Demon. All the while running for his life, of course. There is a momentary pause...

And then it stops! Yes, I knew it was short when I bought it, but I can still long for more.

Sigh. But I'll be happy with what I have. For now.