Your rating:
First novel in the popular series that begins with the inauspicious meeting of Betan astrocartographer Cordelia Naismith and Barrayaran Captain Aral Vorkosigan during a treacherous war. As captor and prisoner on an abandoned outpost planet, the honorable captain and the resolute scientist must rely on each others' trust to survive a trek across dangerous terrain, thus sparking a relationship that shares the struggles of culture and politics between their worlds. Locus Poll Award Nominee
No posts yet
Kick off the convo with a theory, question, musing, or update
Your rating:
This absolutely has pacing issues and the world building feels very Bilbo Baggins butter scraped over too much bread, but I loved Cordelia and Vorkosigan and their instalove story and am I about to read a 16 book space opera epic despite all the other reading I want to get done? Yes. YES I DAMN WELL AM.
The afterword chapter where we get to see the interesting way the Betans handle the dead found in space after large scale battles...absolutely moving. I kept waiting for some big twist or jump scare but it ended up being a really nice and quiet meditation on how the dead can be treated with respect no matter who they are or which side they fought on, and it left me with a bit of a lump in my throat. A lovely, humanizing ending.
0 0
© 2024 Pagebound