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Finally a new book with Kylara Vatta. I've ordered it today. Cold Welcome (Vatta's Peace #1) by Elizabeth Moon

I love these books.

The story is moving ahead like a freight train. The first book created a lot of wonderful characters and an intriguing, if somewhat implausible world. It sent a boy from a poor mining village, into the elite of society. Reminiscent in some ways of the Harry Potter series, it had school, students competing with lives on the line. What book two shows us, is something completely different. Darrow is now all grown up.

This feels a lot more like a traditional Miles Vorkosigan book than A Civil Campaign did. Here he has to deal with murder, diplomatic crisis, racism, and new places. Should be good.

Nearly done. Read for three hours before work this morning, and had to quit with ten pages left...

All the stories are coming together in one dramatich whole. Some of them are solely from this book, while others have taken a lot longer to reach its conclusion. Still for a science fiction novel it's quite domestic. A lot of the drama is based on class, the evolution of a society, relationships between friends, family, lovers. Top that off with quite a lot of humour, and you have a cracking book.

There's not a lot of space opera here, but the saga continues in full. Very interesting that we can follow the inner workings on a human populated planet in the future, and that it all seems so real.