A review by triscuit807
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold

4.0

Every new Bujold book is a treat and this one doesn't disappoint. In GJRQ she revisits one of the two characters that started the whole saga in "Shards of Honor", Cordelia Naismith, 3 years after the death of her husband Aral Vorkosigan. She's still Vicereine of Sergyar (the planet she discovered in Shards), she's in her 70s (still young for a galactic), and she's wanting to move on. Note: this is not a Miles book, although he does show up. Like all of the Vorkosign saga, GJRQ is a space opera tinged with romance. However, the romance is more central than the space opera - even more so than "Komarr" and "Civil Campaign" - and I hope that's not too much of a spoiler. Having read it, I find myself wanting to re-read all of them again. It's been 30 years since Shards, so why not? This also fulfills my 2016 Reading Challenge by ticking the box "read a romance set in the future" PopSugar).