Title: Buy this for Winterfair Gifts, don't bother about the rest!
Product review: Like other reviewers, I bought this anthology for one story - Lois McMaster Bujold's 'Winterfair Gifts' - and I'd give that story on it's own 5 stars. I'm not sure it's particularly accessible for a reader unfamiliar with the Vorkosiverse, but for Miles devotees it was deeply satisfying. While I understand another reviewer's disappointment that Miles and Ekaterin were peripheral characters in this story which centres on Roic and Taura, I don't really share that disapointment. Ms Bujold is always a 'thinking' and intelligent writer - the Vorkosigan books are mainly written from Miles' point of view and it was most illuminating (and alternately hysterically funny and deeply touching)to see him through other eyes.I must confess that I'm more an SF/Fantasy reader than a romance reader, which is probably why I found most of the rest of the book pretty unreadable, but I don't begrudge a cent of the purchase price - the Bujold story was worth it.
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