Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance

Lois McMaster Bujold continues her Vorkosigan Saga with Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance.  In this book she takes a break from her normal principal main character, Miles Vorkosigan, to follow his cousin Ivan Vorpatril.  Ivan, who will be familiar to readers of the series, is a feckless man with more going on intellectually then he lets people realize.  Here he is coerced into providing a favor for an acquaintance, finds himself helping a pair of women in life threatening circumstances, and then has consequences that come home to roost big time in his life.

This series has long been one of my favorites and this book lives up to the established standard.   If you’ve been reading the series pick this one up right away.  If you haven’t pick it up anyway (this book reads just fine as a stand alone) and make a point of looking up all the other titles too.