by Lois McMaster Bujold
I put off reading this book for 3 years now - simply because I always wanted to have some new Vorkosigan to read when it's likely that another novel won't come. So, was it worth the wait? Yes - and no. Pay special attention to spoilers at the end of this review! As always, Miles swoops in, finds h...
As I read on I've been thinking that she had grown milder with age or for some other reason stopped freezing the readers' spines - time and again I tensed in anticipation of something horrible that was about to happen to one of the good guys, but the rescue was always in time and no lasting damage w...
I stumbled across Cryoburn as one of this year's Hugo nominees; it's the first book in Bujold's Vorkosigan saga that I've read. I wasn't particularly bothered by reading it alone and out of order; it fared moderately well as a stand-alone despite numerous references to the past storyline. While it m...
I love the character development that occurs in this book. And there's some beautiful symmetry between this book and The Warrior's Apprentice.
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