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

4.5

In this book, we come full circle with Cordelia, whom we first met when she and her team discovered the planet now named Sergyar.  She's been its vicereine for years and is now planning her retirement on this very planet, but as a Betan human she expects a great many more years of life (she's 75 or 76, I think, but only middle-aged).  Meanwhile, a character previously only mentioned in passing, Oliver Jole, comes to the forefront.  He's a truly lovely man whose story has been hidden and therefore eclipsed by our main characters in the Vorkosigan family.  He is also at midlife (turning 50) and deciding what to do next.  I don't want to give spoilers, so I'll just say that it's a quiet book, full of conversations, but satisfying, and I wish there were more books to come.