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source_decay 's review for:

Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
3.0

I don't get the hullaballo about this book. This is the first book I have read by Bujold and it might be my last. I was looking through a list of Nebula and Hugo award winning books and saw that several books in this series had won awards, so I decided to start of the beginning of the series, which is harder than it looks. I choose to go with published order and this one came up first.

I thought the romance between Cordelia and Vorkosigan was forced. It felt like I had picked up a romance novel. All the events were a bit too convenient with everything happening to benefit the main characters.

I think I am going to try to read The Warrior's Apprentice next, but give up on the series if I cannot get into the characters.