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Loading... Mira's Last Danceby Lois McMaster Bujold
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Penric is escaping Cedonia with Nikys when his talents lead him to a brothel for an evening rest. Overnight to hide their identities Penric dresses as a woman. When a Cedonian general takes an interest in the tall "courtesan", Desdemona's own Mira takes over for a last bow she never expected. ( ) Bujold, Lois McMaster. Mira’s Last Dance. Penric and Desdemona No. 4 (pub order). Spectrum Literary Agency, 2017. I found the first few Penric and Desdemona books quite engaging, but this one fell a little flat for me. Mira was never as much fun as she was cracked up to be, and Penric’s two traveling companions were never brought to life as most of Bujold’s characters are. There was some fun in watching Penric travel in drag, but it was not enough to sustain even a short novella like this one. I know that not raving about a Bujold piece is like saying Meryl Streep or Daniel Day Lewis gave a bad performance, but still . . . Light fun, maybe less impressive than the rest of the Penric novellas, but this one has more of one thing than all the others combined. Boobs. It was very funny, and even though it's basically a direct follow up from Penric's Mission, still a roadtrip novel, it was a delight just for seeing Penric have to cross-dress. :) That's what you get when one of your ten demons was a courtesan! The poor boy never stands a chance. :) no reviews | add a review
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In this sequel to the novella Penric's Mission, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas. In the town of Sosie, the fugitive party encounters unexpected delays, and even more unexpected opportunities and hazards, as the courtesan Mira of Adria, one of the ten dead women whose imprints make up the personality of the chaos demon Desdemona, comes to the fore with her own special expertise. No library descriptions found. |
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