Book Post: Bujold, Eger, Aaronovitch, Gaiman and Albertalli

[bearshorty]

There are my June books. I didn't post my May books and I will try to catch up but I wanted to do the June ones at least first.

Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold [Vorkosigan Saga], 316pp
This is not the best book in the Vorkosigan Saga, the main mystery is not as good, as I find more family oriented and mental anguish working better

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

It is not the best one but it is still Bujold and it is still written in her highly readable style and there is plenty of funny stuff

That's basically how I feel about Diplomatic Immunity, too. It's not one I've ever been moved to reread, and I think it's one of the weakest books in the series, but it's still Bujold, so it was still worth my while.

Interesting to hear your thoughts on Broken Homes. It is my favorite of the books so far, but I do think the twist at the end is a big part of that -- I was every bit as blindsided by Peter, and Lesley had been a favorite character of mine, too, so it was a huge WHOA and "I need to talk to someone about this right now!" moment for me. (I do agree that the beginning is slow, and the book picked up for me when they went undercover, too.)

There is something about this series that is keeping me at arms' length. Maybe it is the characters, although I really like Peter.I've seen this at arm's length complaint before from other readers, though I think those were specifically about Peter as

[zoefruitcake]

I didn't know about Leslie so it came as a massive surprise to me! I recently finished The Hanging Tree and I am going to start the novella The October Man which is set in Germany and has been raved about by my German orderly who is also reading the series