A review by onegin
Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

I'm almost ashamed to admit how much I enjoyed this book? It's always a feast whenever I read the Vorkosigan saga, and I indulge myself fully. Lois McMaster Bujold is a master of writing thrill and intrigue, the plot draws you in - but above all, the characters shine. What characters! They're flawed, yet wonderful, and their heroic actions are drawn from those flaws, their humanity - their incredible feats of heroism are believable.
The content warnings* for this book are extensive - there's really so much fucked up shit that happens to the characters. And yet - as I read through the horrible events in the books, I trusted that it was worth it, and LMB delivered themes of identity, love, duty… The fucked up shit was never unnecessarily explicit, only enough words were spent on it to get across what was happening and how it affected the characters.
Any instalment for the Vorkosigan saga is a fantastic read, but Mirror Dance, with its main theme of identity, hit above the mark for me.

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