Booklog 65/2023: Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance #Vorkosiverse - Audiobook

Audiobook read by Grover Gardner.
I will state right upfront that I'm a big fan of Lois McMaster Bujold's books. I've read tall of them before, but this is the first time I've listened to the audiobook of Mirror Dance. Miles's clone twin Mark, stubbornly referred to as his brother, takes advantage of his appearance and poses as Admiral Naismith to abscond with Bel Thorne's ship, The Ariel, to rescue a bunch of clones from Jackson's Hole where they are being grown as bodies, ultimately destined to have their progenitors' brains transplanted into them and their own brains cast aside as medical waste. After some confusion when mark's mission comes within a whisker of succeeding but then fails, Miles goes to the rescue only to take a needle grenade to the chest. He's hurriedly prepped for cryo, but his pod is left behind, and he's missing in action - presumed dead. This brings Mark to Barrayar and into the orbit of Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan. He expects to be killed but instead he's adopted and thus begins the rehabilitation of Lord Mark Vorkosigan, now determined to search for Miles. If you haven't read any of Ms Bujold's Vorkosigan books before, this is probably not the place to start. I heartily recommend you google 'Vorkosigan reading order' and start from the beginning. Told from both viewpoints, Mark's and Miles's this is a fascinating study of the differences between, and similarities of the two clone brothers. Grover Gardner does a good job of reading. Highly recommended.