1.5 starsI've heard many good things about Bujold's writing, both her fantasy and sci-fi series. However, after reading Shards of Honour I can only guess that this is not one of those "good things" or I should never listen to what I've heard about Bujold.I really have difficulty grasping Shards of H...
I'd already read Young Miles last month, and it was so enjoyable (actually an enjoyable 2 novels and a short story in-between) that I decided to put the rest of the Vorkosigan saga on my to-read list.So reading this first book in the series really helped me better understand Young Miles (especially ...
This is so different than the prequel. It's like a whole new author. I absolutely loved this book. I usually love the hot and heavy romances and this one when the scenes came up they were just kissing or afterwards. The romance had a chance to grow more for me and there are quite a few stops and...
Being a big fan of Lois McMaster Bujold's fantasy works, I recently decided to give her science fiction a try, starting with, of course, the first book of her Vorkosigan series Shards of Honor. It's most definitely a space opera if I've ever seen one, but I don't use that term pejoratively. I still ...
Be warned: the jacket blurb describes only a minor portion of the story. My version, you ask?*************************************************Love in the background of space opera! Female captain leads research team investigating exotic planet. Expedition is attacked and a researcher is killed. Host...
Not bad, though I do get the sense that its a prequel - like all of this would be more interesting if I was getting fascinating background information on characters I already knew, rather than a slightly prefunctory story that cuts off at a strange place and doesn't go into too much depth. One more ...
Lois McMaster Bujold is an author I have been meaning to read for the longest time, she has won so many major sf awards it is clear that she must be some kind of major talent in the field. However it took me years and years to get around to picking up one off her books simply because the synopsis of...
What happened? What are these sensible, mature adults doing in the middle of my space opera? Where are the hot-headed, brash heroes? Where is the sass-mouthed young princess? WHERE ARE THE ROBOTS AND ALIENS?This is not your father's science-fiction novel. But it might be your mother's. I don't mean ...
I adore this book, and I absolutely love the characters of Aral Vorkosigan and Cornelia Naismith.I had read McMaster Bujold's fantasy books before, and adored them (the Chalion books), but I was afraid of her space opera after I ran amok of her Sharing Knife book (I hated it with a passion). I'm so...
by Lois McMaster BujoldOpening line: "A sea of mist drifted through the cloud forest, soft, grey, luminescent."My fellow Sounisians tend to be a pretty canny bunch. I first heard about Elizabeth Wein from them, and that recommendation certainly paid off. So when they kept mentioning this "Vorkosigan...
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