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

5.0

What a delight! I devoured it, as I suspected I would. It was a little odd not to have the various subplots turn into something horrifying at the end, but also appropriate to the story itself. I still hardly know what to feel about Cordelia/Aral/Jole actually being canon. They've lived in my heart for years, thanks to some stellar fic, and I would never have said that I value canon over fanon (rather the reverse, really!), and yet this seems to have made them... beautifully real. There are no other versions of this story, now: even before the author wrote it in, it was true. I want to go reread all of the books Jole might have been in, now!