It conveys, to the long term reader, a feeling that is a bloody work of art to perceive. They capture the feeling you get when you first learn that the older folks in your life have whole other lives without you, beyond you, that are really none of your business. They're integral and they are a beautiful moment in your mind when you're reading. Because the relationships, they're not there superfluously. I'm deeply amazed and impressed she wrote this book, given the pushback she can expect to receive from even loyal fans. But it's going to freak a lot of folks out and squick others, and I see that. The parallels are astonishing and a perfect, beautiful mirror. They just weren't possible to be written about thirty years ago in our society any more than they were possible to be talked about in Barrayaran society. This is going to polarize a lot of people, because the relationships described are, if you were paying attention to some single lines she threw into books 30 years or more ago, perfectly in character. It's about the secret life of the adults around the children, the things you protect your children from, the dangers that seemed powerful in one generation and how much less powerful they are as society changes. Because it's also about Cordelia Vorkosigan, and Aral Vorkosigan, and the things they carried on doing with their lives while we've been off watching Miles live his life of adventure. That's what the book is all about.Įxcept it's not. This book is no exception: Oscar Jole is career military and like all career military, he reaches a crux in his life where he must make a decision between starting a civilian life and moving up in his career. And she's good at it, despite her characters never seeing an order they didn't undermine- I'm a military vet and she captures the deep desire to serve, the love, that every military person feels with absolute accuracy. Spoilers avast mates, read no further if you want the moments of surprise this book will undoubtedly bring. I fall squarely on the side of oh my god is it astonishing and beautiful, and here's why. Wow, but this is gonna be a polarizing book. I can absolutely see where all that came from. Her statement on Facebook was that it was almost unmarketable, and difficult to categorize, and she thought about putting warnings out for her fans but then she thought her fans would just read it and then warn each other.
I purchased the e-ARC from Baen two days ago and finished the book yesterday.
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