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A review by masupert
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
4.0
This is a wonderful sci-fi book written by a female author featuring a strong female main character. This compendium of two books follows the path of Cordelia Naismith through the story of how she meets her husband and how her son, Miles comes to be. It is a wonderful tale filled with difficult situations, confronted by a (mostly) wonderfully intelligent main character. What is so enjoyable about this story is the human reasoning that the author brings the reader through in each of the characters. Throughout the two books in this story, the characters are faced with tremendously difficult moral and social choices, each of which could be potentially real. In almost all of the instances we get to see the main characters struggle and reason with their choices and their consequences. The characters are wonderfully well sculpted and the stories here are a nice snapshot look at the development of politics, war and relationships on the two worlds we explored. Cultures clash to an extent here and we seem them clash on a interpersonal level. I am guess that these are perhaps passing remarks towards Earth's society, which is briefly hinted at in the book, but never explained.
Nothing comes easy to Cordelia and her husband Aral in these stories, but we are painted a striking picture of their tremendous character. It is not very often that we get to read a book, let a lone a sci-fi book with a fully competent female lead such as this one as well as a male lead who is struggling with his own inner demons and the politics of his planet. There is only one lapse in the overall character narrative that takes place at the end of this book which forced me to "suspend by disbelief" as Cordelia goes on a full on suicide mission behind enemy lines to rescue her son. Other than that though this book is wonderfully well written and shows a great relationship and character development between the two main characters as they fight through mutiny, love, rebellion and personal friendship. .
Nothing comes easy to Cordelia and her husband Aral in these stories, but we are painted a striking picture of their tremendous character. It is not very often that we get to read a book, let a lone a sci-fi book with a fully competent female lead such as this one as well as a male lead who is struggling with his own inner demons and the politics of his planet. There is only one lapse in the overall character narrative that takes place at the end of this book which forced me to "suspend by disbelief" as Cordelia goes on a full on suicide mission behind enemy lines to rescue her son. Other than that though this book is wonderfully well written and shows a great relationship and character development between the two main characters as they fight through mutiny, love, rebellion and personal friendship. .