Cryoburn - I have almost finished and can no longer not-talk about bits.
Oh jesus god i hate it when we're right.
I think the internet (=bits of it I give a damn about/talk to) has long since figured that with Miles wedded and bedded, so to speak, the next big Thing is going to have to have been Aral (or Gregor, but like I texted Kat about twenty pages back, I'm less worried for Gregor now he has children because that lessens the Delightfully Dreadful Complications of having Miles have to pick up those pieces), and god, I just.
I have to admit, the flurry of spoiler posts made me start worrying by chapter 3. And the way that Aral kept being mentioned made me suspicious as hell, and god, I have spent the last hundred pages going "please no please no please no" and then I had to stop when Vorventa addressed Miles as Count Vorkosigan because.
brb crying hysterically
I have been reading and rereading these books for ten years now, which isn't nearly so long as some, but- they're the books of my heart the way nothing else is, and the characters of my heart, and just- oh my god, knowing it was going to happen doesn't make it hurt any less. Cordelia. I just. I can't. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:
I am glad I did not finish this around Teri, who is also reading it and I don't think I could've hidden my reaction. I am especially glad that, god forbid, I did not finish at work. If Shards of Honor comes up on my iPod tomorrow though I don't know that I can be held responsible for my reaction. :/
Okay, I'm going to try and finish the book now. Oh, Miles, and Mark, and Simon and Alys and Ivan and Kou and Drou and Gregor and-- everyone. Ow, ow, ow.
(Oh god, how do you tell someone to not read the last chapter in public without giving them a horrible sensation of impending doom, and
then to have it be realised...)
And for people who can't/prefer not to read eBooks... this is going to be sort of like the preview screenings of Serenity, isn't it? Where we ought not talk about it until everyone can know. Except worse. WHICH I WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. :/
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