![]() ![]() By the last few Penric & Desdemona books I don't think I ever seriously believed that anything bad would happen to the main characters in the pages I was reading, and that has the effect of reducing tension a lot. ![]() This isn't necessarily a bad thing: I really like character-heavy books like Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, in spite of the lack of personal disasters and dire consequences, and some of my favorite Penric & Desdemona stories have been light-hearted adventures where any bad stuff happens in the past or off-screen.īut I no longer go into new Bujold stories wondering if something terrible will happen. That's enough to notice a few trends, and one of which is that the first half of her career is generally (but not always) a lot heavier and intense than the second half. Around 35 novels and novellas by Lois McMaster Bujold, more than I've read by any other author. I'm now fully caught up with both the Vorkosigan books and the World of the Five Gods books. ![]()
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