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qosOn a whim -- and honestly, I can't remember what prompted me to order it in the first place -- I bought the novel Modesty Blaise a few weeks ago, and started reading it while I was sick this weekend.
It is unexpectedly delightful -- if you're in the mood for an escapist espionage thriller. Modesty is a pure fantasy heroine: gorgeous, dangerous, smart, resourceful, sexually independent, speaks multiple languages, has a worldwide network of allies with whom she has complicated histories, and a doughty sidekick who worships her. I'm gobbling it down like candy, and can't wait to order the next volume.
Next on my list, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, the first book in a new fantasy series by Lois McMaster Bujold, who wrote some of my very favorite books, the Vorkosigan/Barrayar series. Unfortunately, she has also written a couple of fantasy novels that I found utterly forgettable.
Reading the inside front cover, I find myself hoping that the pair of characters at the center of this novel may be able to catch some of the magic of Aral and Cordelia, of Shards of Honor, but that may be a long shot. Fantasy may not be her genre.
Meanwhile, I need to get back to Modesty. . .
It is unexpectedly delightful -- if you're in the mood for an escapist espionage thriller. Modesty is a pure fantasy heroine: gorgeous, dangerous, smart, resourceful, sexually independent, speaks multiple languages, has a worldwide network of allies with whom she has complicated histories, and a doughty sidekick who worships her. I'm gobbling it down like candy, and can't wait to order the next volume.
Next on my list, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, the first book in a new fantasy series by Lois McMaster Bujold, who wrote some of my very favorite books, the Vorkosigan/Barrayar series. Unfortunately, she has also written a couple of fantasy novels that I found utterly forgettable.
Reading the inside front cover, I find myself hoping that the pair of characters at the center of this novel may be able to catch some of the magic of Aral and Cordelia, of Shards of Honor, but that may be a long shot. Fantasy may not be her genre.
Meanwhile, I need to get back to Modesty. . .
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:00 am (UTC)Which means that the others must be amazing. :)
Do you know which of the Vorkosigan/Barrayar series is the first book? I'd like to start, but I can't figure out where.
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:09 am (UTC)The first Vorkosigan book is called Shards of Honor and the second is Barrayar, but they are out of print separately and available now only as a single volume called Cordelia's Honor.
FWIW, Cordelia is one of my all-time favorite heroines.
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Date: 2006-10-12 02:49 am (UTC)Thank you so much for the titles! Now I can't wait until my books arrive from Calif. Hopefully it will give me time enough to finish the other book I'm in the middle of.
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