Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Book fifteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. This time the story moves away from Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of the earlier books, to his cousin, Captain Ivan Vorpatril.Captain Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer to a Barrayaran...
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Book fifteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. This time the story moves away from Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of the earlier books, to his cousin, Captain Ivan Vorpatril.Captain Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral, assigned to the planet Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his
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Format: ebook
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 422
Edition language: English
Series: Vorkosigan Saga (Publication order) 3 (#15)
I held off reading this one for ages because I was afraid it'd be another like Diplomatic Immunity, but no this was a delight. LOVED seeing Ivan alone ish, LOVED the Jacksonians, loved Tej. I'm also a sucker for marriage of convenience.
I held off reading this one for ages because I was afraid it'd be another like Diplomatic Immunity, but no this was a delight. LOVED seeing Ivan alone ish, LOVED the Jacksonians, loved Tej. I'm also a sucker for marriage of convenience.
Read by Tiffany: Although technically one of a long-running series, this title stands alone nicely and apparently focuses on a bit-player - Ivan Vorpatril. The tone is wry and the pace is cracking, until about the last 50 or so pages when it takes FOREVER to wrap up!
Overall Satisfaction: ★★★★ Intellectual Satisfaction: ★★★★ Emotional Satisfaction: ★★★★Read this for: The charactersDon't read this for: The world-building? The prose? I don't know, nothing stands out as exceptional but nothing stands out as awful either.Bechdel Test: PassJohnson Test: FailBooks I...
Ivan has grown up, and when not crouched in Miles's shadow, his heroism and versatility show through for a fun romp through the Barrayar we've come to know and love.The book really starts when Byerley--no-goodnik cousin to Dono, Richars, Miles, Ivan, and half the High Vor--shows up to recruit Ivan's...
8 years ago
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