Beguilement (novel)

For the act of convincing another to believe information that is not true, see deception.

Beguilement

Dust jacket of first edition (hardbound)
Author	Lois McMaster Bujold
Cover artist	Julie Bell
Language	English
Series	The Sharing Knife, Vol. 1
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Eos (HarperCollins)
Publication date	10 October 2006
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print Hardbound & Paperback &  Audiobook
Pages	355 (first edition, hardbound)
ISBN	0-06-113758-8
OCLC	65197991
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3552.U397 S54 2006
Followed by	Legacy

The Sharing Knife: Beguilement is a fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2006. It is the first book in the series The Sharing Knife .

Kirkus Reviews was luke-warm, finding "Flurries of action early on, devolving into stock fantasy-romance; overall, just about noteworthy enough to bring readers back for the promised conclusion." ^[1] Jo Walton was positive about the series as a whole, praising the American setting and the small-scale focus of the stories. ^[2]

Plot

Fawn, a farmer girl of about 20, has run away from her family, because another farmer has impregnated her and made it clear that he will not acknowledge the baby as his own. Dag, a Lakewalker patroller, first encounters Fawn hiding up in a tree. Later, they meet again, when Dag saves her from some slaves of a malice. Then she assists him in killing the malice, and, in the process, the ground of her unborn child creates a new sharing knife. Eventually, they realize that they are in love, against the customs of both their cultures, and the real story begins.

References

1. "THE SHARING KNIFE VOLUME ONE: BEGUILEMENT". Kirkus Reviews. August 1, 2006.
2. Walton, Jo (January 2, 2009). "Western Fantasy: Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife books". Reactor Mag. Retrieved September 12, 2025.