Reading: Komarr (265/365)

[white_hart]

The eleventh book in the Vorkosigan series, Komarr sees Miles, now an Imperial Auditor, sent with a colleague to investigate an accident to the terraforming equipment on the Barrayaran colony of Komarr. While investigating, he meets Ekaterin Vorsoisson, niece of his fellow-Auditor and unhappily married to a senior Barryaran administrator on Komarr, and the novel is roughly equal parts investigation and comedy of manners, as Miles and Ekaterin develop a friendship, and maybe more.

After Memory, I was expecting another serious and thought-provoking book, which I think is why it's taken me so long to carry on with the series, during a time when I'm really not sure I have the wherewithal to cope with serious and thought-provoking, but in fact I found myself wrong-footed again, as Komarr is fun, and as light-hearted as any book with a non-zero body count can be. I liked Ekaterin a great deal, and the alternating points of view between her and Miles help to prevent Miles's ego ever becoming overwhelming. I look forward to seeing more of her as I carry on with the series.

Comments

[jinty]

Mile's exuberance and inventiveness in the space opera bits is impressive and fun but a bit wearing to read - I enjoyed reading them but don't particularly fancy re-reading them, whereas I've already re-read a bunch of the later ones despite only reading the series for the first time v recently.