jacey | Booklog 51/2023: Lois McMaster Bujold: The Warrior’s Apprentice

Yet another re-reading of one of my favourite books. Miles Vorkosigan at his chaotic best. He flunks out of Military academy by breaking both legs in a rash jump on the physical test, gets sent to stay with his Betan grandmother, takes on an obsolete cargo freighter and its near obsolete jump pilot, attempts to smuggle arms into a war zone and accidentally ends up running a mercenary fleet in his alter ego personality as Admiral Miles Naismith. Miles is a great character to read about, though if he were mine in real life, I’d probably want to strangle him. The fact that he is so real to me is testament to Lois McMaster Bujold’s excellent writing. Science fiction or fantasy, I heartily recommend everything she writes. This is the third book in the Vorkosigan series. The first two are about Miles’ parents. This is the first Miles book, so it’s one of the good starting points for the whole series. Read them all. You won’t be sorry.