This is the origin story of Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan as we find them meeting and falling in love against all odds after a violent first encounter. I don’t remember if i read this before or after I first read The Warrior’s Apprentice (I think after), and this is the first time I’ve reread it. My copy is packaged with Barryar, the sequel to this novel, and that seems fitting. The two other first novels by Lois McMaster Bujold, this and The Warrior’s Apprentice, […]
A small, empty hiss was her sole reply.
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold