![]() ![]() ![]() This wasn't my favourite of the Miles Vorkosigan stories, probably because I'd just read Labyrinth and really wanted a full-length Miles story. ![]() A little expansion or inclusion in a larger story may have improved this tale. This novella introduces one of the most interesting characters in the Vorkosigan saga, Taura - a gentically engineered human-wolf hybrid of sorts - but suffers due to its short length. It also foreshadows Miles future as he works as the voice of his father. This novella is basically a murder mystery that works well enough but could have worked better if it had been incorporated into a full book. Filled with political intrigue and swashbuckling derring do, this proves to be much more in the realms of the later novels. This worked much better as a mystery than 'The Mountains Of Mourning' - which may have well been a dummy run for this book - and proves that Bujold is a master mystery writer. ![]()
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