hee! I remember having that exact same reaction to the "child" foreplay. Also, yeah, Gary Stu Dag... he's not exactly a run-of-the-mill guy.
I actually liked Passage more than the previous two (I haven't read the last one yet), as I kind of hate Bujold-does-early-stage-romance-- though I am in general not sympathetic towards Dag's "wow, if I just do something, even though I don't know what, I can change everything!!" Um, gonna run into some unintended consequences really fast there, dude.
(My probably slightly more coherent review is here (http://charlie-ego.livejournal.com/21088.html).)
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I actually liked Passage more than the previous two (I haven't read the last one yet), as I kind of hate Bujold-does-early-stage-romance-- though I am in general not sympathetic towards Dag's "wow, if I just do something, even though I don't know what, I can change everything!!" Um, gonna run into some unintended consequences really fast there, dude.
(My probably slightly more coherent review is here (http://charlie-ego.livejournal.com/21088.html).)