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This book continues the story begun in The Curse of Chalion. The story focuses on Ista, the mother of the newly crowned royina of Chalion-Ibra. Ista, long thought to be crazy because of a curse that had plagued generations of the royal family. Though Cazaril, the main character of The Curse of Chalion, has mitigated the effects of the curse, it isn't totally gone. Paladin of Souls shifts focus from the newly formed alliance between Chalion and Ibra, away from the issues of the court entirely. Ista longs to live a less constrained life and escape the confines of family, ladies in waiting, tedium. Once again, Bujold draws us readers into a story with logical structure, blending a world of flesh and mortality with the world of the spiritual, one with five gods who share responsibility for the world/universe of the book. Demons escape from the metaphysical realm into the physical, though are forced to act through living creatures, whether animal or human.

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