A review by katieinca
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

3.0

A standalone that comes very early in this universe, that my reading guide advised me to skip unless and until I got to a much much later book (Diplomatic Immunity), and that was solid advice. Diplomatic Immunity was more enjoyable for getting the references to this, and it was nice to have them fresh in my head. This was fun, and I enoyed it, but I don't regret that she never got back to picking up these characters. Good stuff: poking at you and characters about what to do with impossible odds, who decides to look the other way and decide things aren't their problem. Less good: needing the outside savior to come to the rescue, and bad guys that are less interesting because they're so odious and thick.