Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is suitably funny and entertaining, but it's a bit more fluffy than what I would call the usual Vorkosigan Saga novel. It's mostly a romantic comedy featuring Ivan Vorpatril, with a small dash of intrigue thrown in from the side of his romantic lead's ambitious family. While I enjoyed the novel, I felt that it lacked Bujold's usual examination of gender or social norms, switching in traditional 'guy/girl' jokes instead. Tej and Ivan cover of lot of ground in introducing characters and events from the series, which made me feel as though this were intended to be a kind of series recap story. It's a fun, lightweight novel, but it's nowhere near my favorite of the series (which is still Barrayar, so far).

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