Bujold's Shards of Honor

[isildur]

Since trying to read this, I've read and enjoyed Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls. So it's not that I think she's a terrible writer

Comments

[risu]

Regrettably, your criticisms are too general to engage my memories; I'd have to reread it to disagree. I'll comment if I wind up motivated to do so.

[ricevermicelli]

IIRC, Shards of Honor was originally written as a Trek novel, with Aral as a Klingon.

Other Bujold is better. Even the direct sequal to SoH - Barrayar, written many years later - is a massive improvement.

[flit]

I didn't really love Shards of Honor, but I liked other books in that world a lot. I think Bujold grew a lot as a writer.

[jminnis]

I'll second this.

The Vorkosigan books improved markedly as Bujold got more experience writing (though the last few suffer from apparently being contractually obliged rather than books she wanted to write).

The Chalion books are just good.

[ethereal221]

I completely disliked "Wizard's First Rule." Glad to find someone else who also did not like the book. (A bunch of my friends up here in Redding enjoyed the series and asked me to read the book a while back.)