Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold

[rowyn]

This is an enormously painful book; unlike most of the Vorkosigan books, I remembered significant sections of it with uncomfortable clarity. It's not so a matter of implausibility or coincidence in the action, but just that a lot of the events are agonizing. Even knowing how it would resolve was not enough to buffer against the rawness of it. It's an important book, but I was tempted to skip it just for it being so full of horror. I read it again anyway, and it does have a nicely satisfying denoument, so there's that. I am only giving this one a 5, though. I don't think I'll be reading it again.

Next up is Memory, which I don't particularly recall. I think I'll finish the ninth Aubrey/Maturin novel first, Treason's Harbour, first -- I'm around halfway through it already.

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[mrw42.livejournal.com]

Do you have a list of all of the Vorkosigan books in order? I am not sure I have read all of them, and I read them out of order, so it might be interesting to go back and do them again...

[rowyn]

Wikipedia's got the list in internal chronological order, which is what I've been going by. Although I started re-reading with the first Cordelia novel instead of the two earlier stories that are in the same setting but have none of the characters. :)