Winterfair Gifts
Miles Vorkosigan and his fiancée Ekaterin are enjoying the Winterfair festivities and wedding gifts on their home planet Barrayar, but Miles’ enemies are at work. Sergeant Taura, a genetically engineered young woman Miles befriended, helps uncover the sinister plot. A double dose of romance...
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Miles Vorkosigan and his fiancée Ekaterin are enjoying the Winterfair festivities and wedding gifts on their home planet Barrayar, but Miles’ enemies are at work. Sergeant Taura, a genetically engineered young woman Miles befriended, helps uncover the sinister plot. A double dose of romance enlivens this delightful novella in the New York Times bestselling Vorkosigan saga.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B004I6CZ28
Edition language: English
Series: Vorkosigan Saga (Publication order) 3 (#13)
This is the epilogue to A Civil Campaign, Miles and Ekaterin's wedding (including some last minute assassination plot) told from Armsman Roic's point of view. Roic isn't your usual ImpSec trained armsman. He was a policeman in the Vorkosigan district capital and some heroism brought him to the att...
I read this in the omnibus [b:Miles in Love|1797901|Miles in Love (Vorkosigan Omnibus, #6)|Lois McMaster Bujold|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348315618s/1797901.jpg|1796997]. I was surprised it's told through Roic's, one of the guardsman's, point of view. We see the wedding through his eyes and hi...
A short, though pleasant, romantic story with just a touch of intrigue. I listened to the audio version which was narrated by Grover Gardner
Delightful. So good to see Taura here, and other cameos from the little Admiral's past. There's not as much substance as I've come to expect from Bujold's novellas, but that doesn't make this story any less engaging. I loved being able to go to The Wedding. Not at all a stand-alone, but a worthy add...
A little sentimental, but engrossing and sweet. Not one for readers who haven't followed most/all the Vorkosigan books, though.