My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Sci-fi, Space Opera
Content: Strong language
Between the seemingly
impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and
surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some
truly daunting challenges.
Shortly after his arrival on Beta
Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete
freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by
his manic "forward momentum," the ever-inventive Miles creates a new
identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to
obtain a lucrative cargo; a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous
warzone.
I wanted to love this. So many other people do, but
it's just not working for me. The sad thing is that I feel like it should have.
It has a protagonist that's easy to like, at least in the beginning, and I
thought it started out good. But at some point I started getting bored with it.
The story just wasn't engaging me any more, and my mind kept wandering. I feel
like there just isn't enough excitement, or something. Anyway, I'm bored with
this book, and I think it has a lot to do with the way it's written. I also was
very underwhelmed with the main female character, Elena. As another reviewer
put it, she felt like a female character written by a man. She reminded me a
lot of the female characters in old western movies from the golden era, where
they were mainly just props.
Anyway, I've gotten over 50% in and I feel like I'm forcing myself to listen to
this, so I'm going to stop. Also, I really don't care for the narrator. It's
the same one that narrated Shard's of Honor and I felt like he kind of
ruined that book too. Maybe I would have liked this better if I had actually
read it, instead of listened to it, but probably not. Sadly, I don't think this
series is for me.
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