Book 54 of 2025: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2004 Hugo Best Novel
This one ended up drawing me in. Bujold is just so good at creating and developing her characters, and Ista (along with the rest of her retinue) is a delight.
World Of The Five Gods
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Book 53 of 2025: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Has all the great characterization, worldbuilding, humor, and heart of the Vorkosigan saga, only this time in a fantasy setting. This was an interesting experiment, reading fantasy from an author I became a fan of through her sci-fi work. Somewhat amusingly, and definitely interestingly, I just couldn’t quite get as much into this as I did the Vorkosigan books – which is not a fault of the book, I’ve just always been more into SF than F.
