Yeah, that was probably the right decision :) I'm not sorry I read it, but mostly in terms of closure than in terms of because it was worth reading on its own merits. If I had never read a Vorkosigan book before, I wouldn't have gotten through it.
So I didn't think the problem with Tej was so much low characterization as it was characterization that didn't make any sense to me in the larger worldbuilding Bujold does (used to do?) so well. I mean, sure, your heroine is bright-eyed and bushytailed and idealistic and impressed by Barrayan authority, okay... but... in that case maybe don't make her from Jackson's Whole?
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Date: 2016-04-18 04:30 pm (UTC)So I didn't think the problem with Tej was so much low characterization as it was characterization that didn't make any sense to me in the larger worldbuilding Bujold does (used to do?) so well. I mean, sure, your heroine is bright-eyed and bushytailed and idealistic and impressed by Barrayan authority, okay... but... in that case maybe don't make her from Jackson's Whole?