Booklog 41/2022: Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honour - Vorkosigan #1

[jacey]

This is a re-read via Audible, read by Grover Gardner

I reviewed the plot before, in great detail, way back in 2009. Though set 200 years after the book about the quaddies (Falling Free) this is the first Vorkosigan book, in which Aral Vorkosigan meets and falls for Cordelia Naismith while they are on opposite side in a war. Complications ensue and are surmounted. Both Cordelia and Aral find things to dislike about their own side and, indeed, Cordelia is almost killed with kindness, but it all resolves beautifully. This is the first Vorkosigan book Ms Bujold wrote and it sets the scene well for future books.

Grover Gardner doesn't have the kind of voice that I like. It's a bit hard, but he reads well and I've become habituated to his readings of all the Vorkosigan books.