Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I am disappointed by this book.
Of course, take my opinion with a grain of salt: I want Lois McMaster Bujold to pull a Clive Cussler and write the same novel over and over and over again. She can pick The Warrior’s Apprentice or A Civil Campaign; either one would satisfy me for the Cussler treatment. Or if not that at least give us a good solid Discworld process, with the same cast of characters exploring some new facet of politics or society each novel.
This novel, alas, represents neither of those things. As far as I can tell there is no central problem. No character is in any danger at any point. Mostly they spend the book talking about stuff that happened in previous books.
It’s still entertaining, if you like the characters, which I do, and some of the ways she makes characters’ histories come full circle are kind of satisfying. I don’t know. I love the rest of this series so much.
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