A review by franziskera
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold

3.0

This was a very quiet book. And maybe a little bit too perfect of an happily-ever-after ending for this chaotic series but on the other hand Cordelia, Jole and all the others should be as happy as anyone can imagine.

But i have to say a lot of the themes talked about and choices the characters made did not resonate with me as much as usual.

Spoiler

I found having a whole squadron of children using your dead husbands genes while co-parenting with his other partner kind of... sad actually? Didn't look very much like moving on but rather like trying to recreate a family with the principal missing and new kids (as if Mark and Miles were (even grow-up) not enough buzz). I don't know maybe I'm too young and will look differently on this book in a couple of years.