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It was an interesting series but one that I myself never got into. It came highly recommended to me, but I read Shards of Honour, Barrayar, and then concluded that not only was it not for me, but I didn't understand the praise for it. To me it read like, well, pulp. Bujold's prose isn't particularly impressive, her worldbuilding is formulaic, and her characters were bland. I filed them away as the sorts of novels you read in airports or on long flights - not good by any reasonable standard, but consistently tolerable, while not asking much of the reader. To this day I don't understand the love for them. I can't even really muster the energy to dislike them. The strongest opinion I have of them is... well, I should put that down-thread.
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