Brothers in Arms

The writing in these books is just delicious. Miles is a maddening delight. Bujold has completely convinced me of his reality as a person, and he's a person I crazy love, wrapped in an action adventure that doesn't stop and always has something new to deliver.

Grover Gardner as narrator for the audiobooks adds a lovely playful and sardonic note to Miles' speech. I'm not sure whether I love the audiobooks more, for that delivery, or the printed books, which allow me to stay a while with the especially good passages, to page back again and again and wonder at how the author does this slight of hand to make me believe so hard in her character and his story.