Whew! Lois McMaster Bujold - Horizon
Well, I decided that eBay and getting rid of books could go hang.
So I stayed up till 4am to read Bujold's Horizon. There were a few places where my eyes were so tired they closed (I think I snoozed) but I made it through. I have not done that in years! I expect I will sleep soundly tonight!
The book. Wow, what a cast of characters accrete around Dag and Fawn as they search for knowledge about his new-found powers of "making" and his ability to forge new uses for ground-sense. This is Bujold, so the characters are interesting ones and, fortunately, they get added slowly so you can keep them all straight. Although... at a couple of points I'd get a bit confused as to who was who, but that could have been muzziness from being so sleepy and tired. A good book on the whole. I think this one is another one which probably improves with re-reading. I remember being a bit disappointed with Passages, but there were scenes I was drawn back to and it got better with re-reading and re-reading.
Niggle: something happens at the end of a fraught adventure. And it didn't feel right/true. It was Too Much. What I liked about Passage was that the adventure part ended cleanly without building up to an annoying screeching improbable crescendo. So many authors think they need to layer on more and more and more tension towards the end, that they totally over do it. So this one had that *one* extra bit which overdid it. IMO.
So. I will now pass it on to a cyberpal who will pass it on to another cyberpal. I was tempted to put it up on eBay, but pals are more important!
Note: it was RAINING and thundering and lightening while I was reading! Heaven!
ETA: This was M's response to my summary of the book:
I find Bujold always improves on re-reading. I don't know why, but her
books always seem a bit thin and ordinary on first reading. It's not
until the re-read that I really appreciate them.