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A review by captlychee
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold
2.0
Not up to Ms Bujold's ususla standard.
The first hal is pretty interesting, discussing the datin game, as it were, for two people in middle age, with middle age here being derined as 50 and 76 (with duenotice taken of Cordelia Vorkosigan's increased longecity) and the court ship of the two title characters is well handled.
Then I tgets bogged down in tedious exploration of the future of children who might be born by uterine replicator long after these two are dead, then it gets even sillier as Miles Vorosigan comes into the story and he gets involve in long discussions about his mother dating someone and the ramifications of these new children being born who would be half-siblings to him. Meanwhile the hapless reader is left wondering what ifference it will make since Miles' succession to Count Vorkosigan is already assured.
Even the Cetagandans turn out to be harmless.
For fans of the unicerse, though, we at last get a figure for the length of the time of Isolation, which I will leave as a mystery here because it is about the only interesting thing in the book.
The first hal is pretty interesting, discussing the datin game, as it were, for two people in middle age, with middle age here being derined as 50 and 76 (with duenotice taken of Cordelia Vorkosigan's increased longecity) and the court ship of the two title characters is well handled.
Then I tgets bogged down in tedious exploration of the future of children who might be born by uterine replicator long after these two are dead, then it gets even sillier as Miles Vorosigan comes into the story and he gets involve in long discussions about his mother dating someone and the ramifications of these new children being born who would be half-siblings to him. Meanwhile the hapless reader is left wondering what ifference it will make since Miles' succession to Count Vorkosigan is already assured.
Even the Cetagandans turn out to be harmless.
For fans of the unicerse, though, we at last get a figure for the length of the time of Isolation, which I will leave as a mystery here because it is about the only interesting thing in the book.