Book #154 of 2018: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #4) The Vorkosigan series is fun enough that I keep coming back to it, but I’ve yet to be really blown away by any single title. This one is yet another solid space opera romp, with our returning hero Miles Vorkosigan wildly …
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Book #131 of 2018: Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #6) The first few Vorkosigan books haven’t really gripped me, so I decided to jump forward to this one (which was the third to be published, anyway — these books are all out of chronological order). It’s more of a spinoff, sharing …
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Book #40 of 2018: The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #3) I’m told that Miles Vorkosigan is the real main character of this series, and after two books about his parents navigating military and political power struggles, he finally takes center stage here. I like our hero: he’s physically weak but tactically …
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Book #19 of 2018: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #2) I still feel like this is a series I could happily walk away from and not miss, but this Hugo-winning second novel — actually the seventh in publication order — is a definite improvement over the first. (I’m also told that the baby …
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Book #259 of 2017: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #1) This space opera skewed a little close to a romance novel, which is not really my genre of choice. (Two enemy soldiers essentially fall in love at first sight, with the protagonist feeling overcome by her counterpart’s rugged manliness.) If you …
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