Shards of Honor

Paperback, 240 pages

Published Nov. 3, 2015 by Baen.

ISBN:
978-1-4767-8110-5
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reviewed Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga (1))

Shards of Honor

4 stars

I decided for December I'm going to just do a bunch of comfort rereading, and my brain has been clamoring for "what if you just reread all of Bujold's Vorkosigan series again (again)". I could reread just A Civil Campaign like most people do, but maybe it's time to reread them all.

Shards of Honor is the "first" book in this series, and genre-wise feels like a space opera romance. (Arguably Falling Free comes first chronologically if you're being pedantic.) If you haven't read these books, most of the series stars Miles Vorkosigan, and this book is the setup of how his parents Aral and Cordelia met and its sequel deals with the circumstances around Miles' birth.

This book does need some content warnings especially for rape, sexual assault, alcoholism, and ableism. This book was first published in 1986, and I think the book cover listed on unseen.city is doing …

reviewed Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)

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4 stars

This very quick read reminded me of The Stainless Steel Rat of [a:Harry Harrison|16147|Harry Harrison|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1196199650p2/16147.jpg]. Instead of Sci Fi/Space Opera, this book is more Space Opera/Romance. Very little detail is given to the Sci Fi staples of space travel and ray guns, but the characters are strongly written. This is part of an apparently very large series of books, and I will probably reach out to read a few more - a solid *½ rating.

This book was chosen as my "random" selection for the Women of Genre Fiction reading challenge. I had none chosen for this slot until mid-year, when Humble Bundle offered a collection of ebooks including Just a Geek, Little Brother, The Last Unicorn, Signal to Noise and XKCD volume one. I bought it on the spot and noticed that one of the books was Shards of Honour, eligible for the WOGF challenge
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