Yay! I'm so glad you liked it! I'm also appalled that I didn't warn you about Bujold's terrible whirlwind romances. (I like Betriz quite a bit as a character, but the romance has always squicked me out a bit.) It's a little annoying, because I feel like she writes everything else so well that I don't understand her inability to do romance properly.
ooh, more recs! Since you have not read To Kill a Mockingbird (#2) you need to do so Right Now. I'm just saying :) (It's all about responsibility in love-- mostly the familial and societal kind, mind you; the main character is something like six years old.) Also The Chosen (Potok) if you haven't read it.
More Bujold: I also very much like the sequel (Paladin of Souls). Just to warn, it also has a love story that I don't actually even remember the details of, so it's probably another random whirlwind thing, although at least there's no May-September squickiness. I don't much like the third Chalion book, The Hallowed Hunt. Stay far, far away from the "Sharing Knife" series (Beguilement, Legacy), where Bujold tries and fails to write genre-romance. If you liked Bujold enough, you might try Komarr, one of the later books of her Vorkosigan series but perhaps a good one to feel out whether you'd want to read the rest of them, since they're SF and I think you're not really a SF fan :)
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Date: 2007-09-26 04:52 pm (UTC)ooh, more recs! Since you have not read To Kill a Mockingbird (#2) you need to do so Right Now. I'm just saying :) (It's all about responsibility in love-- mostly the familial and societal kind, mind you; the main character is something like six years old.) Also The Chosen (Potok) if you haven't read it.
More Bujold: I also very much like the sequel (Paladin of Souls). Just to warn, it also has a love story that I don't actually even remember the details of, so it's probably another random whirlwind thing, although at least there's no May-September squickiness. I don't much like the third Chalion book, The Hallowed Hunt. Stay far, far away from the "Sharing Knife" series (Beguilement, Legacy), where Bujold tries and fails to write genre-romance. If you liked Bujold enough, you might try Komarr, one of the later books of her Vorkosigan series but perhaps a good one to feel out whether you'd want to read the rest of them, since they're SF and I think you're not really a SF fan :)