While Vorkosigan is never portrayed as inferior in any way, it is Cordelia who is the “hero”. Cordelia is clever and resourceful and manages to rescue Vorkosigan quite a few times in the book.

The beginning has a vaguely Enemy Mine feel to it (even though both characters in this case are human)- Cordelia is captured by Vorkosigan who himself has been the victim of a crew mutiny. Even though there was little difference between Vorkosigan’s voice and Cordelia’s, their characters were so different and distinct, that I had littel difficulty in identifying who was talking. After a while, the deep voice stopped bothering me because Gardner conveyed the character so well in other ways. But, my friend Brenda told me that the narrator was awesome and the book was as good so I bore down and kept going. While I appreciated there was no drag-y falsetto, it took some getting used to to “hear” Cordelia in that deep rumble. Grover Gardner has a low baritone and he doesn’t even attempt a female voice. This book had been sitting on my TBL for quite a while and I finally found the space to listen.The story is told in Cordelia’s third person POV and I was a little disappointed when at the beginning of the listen it became apparent that she was going to be stuck with a very deep male voice for the whole book. What worked for me (and what didn’t): Quite a few of my reader friends have recommended the Vorkosigan saga books to me.

Cordelia's honor