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Originally Posted by Iphinome
I tried to read Cordelia's Honor and after 2 kindle sized pages I closed the file and went off on an epic rant at the person who recommended it to me. Purple prose much?
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Shards of Honor, the 1st book in the CH omnibus, is the most romance-y of the lot, and quite frankly, one of the weaker books as it was written much earlier than the really good stuff and specifically as a get-together story to establish the relationship.
Barrayar, the 2nd part written years later and kind of the back half of the story, is considerably stronger (in fact I read it long before SoH since the library had an old copy as an individual title).
If you're willing to give Bujold another chance, I suggest trying
The Borders of Infinity (available on the
Cryoburn cd hosted on the Fifth Imperium) and/or
The Mountains of Mourning (directly in the Baen Free Library) standalone novellas, which I consider to be far better representative encapsulations of the "Admiral Naismith" and "Lord Vorkosigan" aspects of the books, respectively, not to mention being some of the very best storytelling in the series.
Also, count me in as another person who loves Baen's approach to e-books, but wishes they had some more variety in their modern catalogue selection. I really like the idea of Webscriptions, but generally, at least half the books in a given month flat-out don't appeal to me so I stick to buying the discounted author bundles and such.
But at least it looks like they're slowly starting to digitize more of their old comedic and urban/epic fantasy backlists to go along with the tonnes of current MilSF.