allisnow | The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Have a mentioned how much I love this book? The story - it's fantasy, if you couldn't tell - is dark enough, with betrayal and torture and murder and murder/suicide spells and "death demons" and so on, but something about the writing is just so kind of warm and comfortable. And the main character... he's not a stud, he's definitely not cut out of the same cloth as Jack or Shep, say, but he's just awesome and squishy and brave and tragic but not tragic in the dull, crappy way; he's funny, too. And there's UST!

*happy sigh*