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

4.0

After reading Gentle Jole and the Red Queen earlier this year, it prompted a 6 month long re-read of the entire Vorkosigan Saga before coming back to where I started. It benefits so much more with these characters being clearer in my memory, I really hadn't been doing Cordelia any favours going in so hazy. The tone of the novel is distinctly different to the rest of the series, there's no overarching mystery/adventure plot and instead it's simply the story of Jole and Cordelia continuing with life after Aral.

The few snippets we've seen of Jole prior to this were tantalising (I have the whole series in ebook form and actually searched every single one for the name Jole), and I wish that Bujold had brought him into the fold earlier to give us a better sense of him.