The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold Book Review

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Review Summaries
"Miles Vorkosigan, having failed the entrance exam for the Imperial Academy, takes a vacation to Beta Colony. There he gets involved in a minor police problem, which leads, inevitably (this is Miles, after all) to him tangling with another system's civil war. " Ivy, Resident Lois McMaster Bujold Scholar

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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Coming of age Yes
Political power play Yes
Political plotlets - factions fight within govt for control - preventing/managing clash/war between govts/kingdoms
Training/Apprent. Yes
Working up the ranks of... - armed forces
War or Invasion Yes
Major kinds of combat: - spaceship battles - mental powers battles
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - a teen
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - emotionally unstable
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - missing body parts/abilities

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
Spaceship setting: - primative (present, near future) human spaceship - futuristic human warship - a space station - futuristic human freighter/transport
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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