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A review by badmc
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold
2.0
The awesome: Vorkosiverse! Aaaaa
The good: It's character driven, so can be ideal for a nice, slow read before sleep.
The bad: It hardly stands on its own - you have to know at least some of the previous works to get around. There were also the character-info-dumps, as well as endless talk about characters' past. It would have been nice to have some flashbacks, instead. And why do all the characters have to be paired up?
The ugly: It is soooooo booooooring. It should've been a 100 pages hommage, tops.
Final verdict: Yawn. Only for hardcore Miles fans.
The good: It's character driven, so can be ideal for a nice, slow read before sleep.
The bad: It hardly stands on its own - you have to know at least some of the previous works to get around. There were also the character-info-dumps, as well as endless talk about characters' past. It would have been nice to have some flashbacks, instead. And why do all the characters have to be paired up?
The ugly: It is soooooo booooooring. It should've been a 100 pages hommage, tops.
Final verdict: Yawn. Only for hardcore Miles fans.