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Title: Days of our Lives in space.
Review: This isn't a science-fiction novel- this is a Harlequin romance! If you like ornate costumes and Grand Royal in space then you'll love this book- everyone is so dashing and suave. Bujold seems obsessed with vain trivialities. Does Cordelia have bags under her eyes this morning?...What is the lordly lord wearing today? Oh, what a lovely ball, too bad there are assassins everywhere...No wonder Cordelia spends the entire book worrying and complaining. As for real science fiction? Forget it. Nothing of interest here. Her make-believe world is silly, shallow and implausible. It's all in the characters, and they'd make Barbara Cartland blush.
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