A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

It's also late-ish in the Vorkosigan series and shouldn't be the first one you pick up. This one's particularly awesome, though possibly too much of a romance for some of my friends. ' This is hysterical!! This is the romance novel of the series and with Miles in the middle, everything is out of control. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.When the Commodore claims she trusts beyond reason, her reply is 'Yes.

Throw in butter bugs, a sex change operation, & Cordelia as Baba. In Miles' view 'the spectacle of a man of thirty-plus, going courting seriously for the first time in his life - the first time in the Barrayaran style, anyway - promised to provide hours of entertainment for his interested staff.' Mark is helplessly in love too, but at least Kareen hasn't sworn off marriage, just gotten confused by being home. Miles in courting mode is scary, yet endearing. And if no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy, just imagine what all Miles’ friends and relatives can do to his romantic strategy. Miles has a cunning plan, which, of course, has to be worked out in between District succession scandals and plans for the Emperor’s wedding. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won’t do, go to subterfuge. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem that all his new power can’t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson.

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold