I suspect someone raised in this dialect, in the region that inspired these landscapes and this river, would find more here. I . . . didn't.
I was raised and still live in the Midwest (right around where Bujold currently lives), and this series just doesn't do much for me. I love her other work, though, especially the Vorkosigan books.
I heard her talk about the first Sharing Knife book at a reading she did a few years ago. She said she found it challenging to write a novel whose main plot was the romance, with the fantasy world as a background. Though her other books often do include romance as part of the plot (Cordelia/Aral OTP!), the Vorkosigan books especially tend to be driven by the action, or a mystery, or something much more interesting than Dag-and-Fawn (whose relationship I find pretty dull).
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I was raised and still live in the Midwest (right around where Bujold currently lives), and this series just doesn't do much for me. I love her other work, though, especially the Vorkosigan books.
I heard her talk about the first Sharing Knife book at a reading she did a few years ago. She said she found it challenging to write a novel whose main plot was the romance, with the fantasy world as a background. Though her other books often do include romance as part of the plot (Cordelia/Aral OTP!), the Vorkosigan books especially tend to be driven by the action, or a mystery, or something much more interesting than Dag-and-Fawn (whose relationship I find pretty dull).