 Good God. What an awful book for a book and an author with such great reputations. I expected something Well, I don't know more than this in chapter one Cordelia naysmith is leading an exploratory expedition to a remote jungle planet And she returns from an excursion to find her base camp slaughtered and one of the Enemy attackers who had been injured and left for dead turns out to be Lord Vorkosigan himself the butcher of coma Quote-unquote so he takes her prisoner and they set off on a long hike through the jungle to one of his company stations It starts off as a pretty good premise But immediately with chapter two as Cordelia is spending time with this guy as they spend day after day hiking through the jungle Turns out he didn't butcher anybody. It was all enemy propaganda He's just misunderstood and the more she looks at him the more rugged he appears It just turns into the most sickening mindless vapid romance novel I wanted to throw his book across the room is one of the most unpleasant reading experiences I've had in recent memory the second half of the book has some unique qualities that are worth talking about But I'm not gonna waste time on it here Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron There's a link in the description below