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

3.0

I really wanted to like this book. I've been reading about some of these characters since middle school and this was sort of a capstone to the whole series, bringing back everyone's favorite matriarch and star of the first book to deal with a major loss. Unfortunately, it's mostly terribly dull. I've read beautiful books where nothing happens and there's no conflict, but this is just an okay book where nothing happens and there's no conflict.

I didn't think Bujold had it in her to write a boring character, but the Admiral Jole of the title is critically bland. It is highly possible that I will have a different angle on this book in thirty years, at a different stage of my life.