I've gotten into reading the Miles Vorkosigan series of late, but I'm kind of doing it in a weird way: I started with the first book and am now poking around reading the end of the series until the first bunch of books are put into compiliations. Might as well buy in bulk, eh?
I want to review some later books, but given how people go fucking berserk about spoilers (I'm sorry, but some of you DO), I'm not sure how well this would work. Then again, it is an older series and not one of the brand spanking new releases in the last few years, so does anyone care?
Anyway... a spoiler note: Cordelia's Honor consists of (technically) two books, Shards of Honor and Barrayar. However, since the author originally intended for them to be one book, the second picks up right where the first left off, and I can't really discuss much without going into plot of the first book, y'all are just going to have to deal with it.
It's like Romeo and Juliet, minus the couple's deaths, they're a lot older, and there's a war on: Cordelia Naismith is from the enlightened, psychologically-obsessed world of Beta Colony, out on a astronomical survey mission when she ends up in the middle of an attempted planetary invasion. Her captor, Aral Vorkosigan, is of the Vor (warrior) class, a nobleman's son, and a bit too close for comfort in line to the Emperor's throne of military-obsessed Barrayar. And yet, somehow, they get along. Go figure. Course, it's kinda hard to court during a war, when a psycho military guy's trying to rape you, and getting sent home to a planet that now thinks you've been drugged into mental mind control.
I didn't like Shards quite as much as Barrayar, mainly because I found Shards rather hard to follow. Course, it is during a military mess and lord knows I don't understand anything military for crap, so YMMV.
I liked Barrayar a lot better, as Cordelia gets to juggle the fun of having a child after getting gassed with poison and an equally poisonous antidote, while there's another war on and dealing with a pregnant in-law to boot. Cordelia is one kickass woman, and one can't help but be sorry that this is the end of books from her major POV. This sets up the plotlines for the rest of the series featuring her in-utero-injured son Miles well, though.
Ah, yes, the Vorkosigan books -- that was a good series. I think I missed a few of them, though I read "Shards" and "Barrayar" when they were serialized in Analog some time back, along with "The Mountains of Mourning", the story which originally introduced Miles.
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