Melodrama Was Never an Option

Nov 2018
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen - Lois McMaster Bujold – Baen Books, 2016
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This latest novel in the Vorkosigan sequence is, I strongly suspect, intended by the author to be the last; you wouldn't return to the main character (Cordelia) and the setting (Sergyar) of the first book in the series unless you are trying to round things off. Whether you consider it a satisfying or a disappointing finale will, in all probability, depend on your willingness to accept Bujold's evident opinion that drama and action are flaws of youth that older, wiser people will seek to avoid. It certainly makes for a slower and more reflective novel than the others in the sequence, which is at least different but not necessarily better.
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