shards of honor – Cannonball Read 17

“I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.”

Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

July 21, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR16 Bingo: Détente (Cordelia and Aral start out as enemies and end up married) Official book summary (read this in early May): In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan – he who was called “The Butcher of Komarr” – and would consequently become an outcast on […]

Whoops, read this back in CBR7 and never continued!

Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

November 21, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

So I read this book back in CBR7 with the full intention of blasting through the series . . . and then proceeded to not do that. So of course I had to re-read before actually continuing. This is still three and a half stars, but I’m bumping it up this go-round. I’m very glad I re-read this, because I knew I had forgotten most of what happened here, except for the general arc of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, but I didn’t realize HOW much […]

A small, empty hiss was her sole reply.

Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

September 12, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the origin story of Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan as we find them meeting and falling in love against all odds after a violent first encounter. I don’t remember if i read this before or after I first read The Warrior’s Apprentice (I think after), and this is the first time I’ve reread it. My copy is packaged with Barryar, the sequel to this novel, and that seems fitting. The two other first novels by Lois McMaster Bujold, this and The Warrior’s Apprentice, […]

When I added this review I typed it “Sharks of Honor” by accident, and now I am obsessed with that as a title for a book I will hopefully someday write.

November 18, 2015 by narfna 13 Comments

What a strange little book, but I quite enjoyed it. Will definitely be reading the rest of the series. I wavered on my rating for quite a while. I liked this more than some books I’ve read that I rated four stars, but it had some pretty significant pacing and world-building issues that were really jarring, and I just couldn’t ignore them. I’m also hoping that future books will be even better, so I’m saving my higher ratings, I guess. I’ve been meaning to read […]

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