Cryoburn

[desertvixen]

So I accidentally got spoiled by a bit of Cryoburn spoilage somewhere I didn't expect it.

Under the cut:

Aral dies?  Offstage, I'm assuming, as it takes three pages to cover?

That's about enough to interrupt the TBR pile, so i don't have time to dread it.

Not to mention that this should be epic for Yuletide fanfic...

Barrayar without Aral Vorkosigan makes me very sad, and yet if she'll follow this one up with a Memory-worthy book, I'd line up to buy it.

ETA: No blame intended about the spoiler.  It wasn't a logical place for the people having the conversation to be talking about the spoiler.  But I think I'll go download it this evening so I can read it and get the whole impact.

DV

Comments

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's worth reading. I read it on the way to my wedding. Jaimie cried for a while when she got to the end.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the wedding, by the way.

It won't be the first time she's made me cry. Between The Hallowed Hunt and Memory, she's put me through the wringer some. (And the one scene in Mirror Dance where Ivan cries...)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Barrayar without Aral Vorkosigan makes me very sad, and yet if she'll follow this one up with a Memory-worthy book, I'd line up to buy it.

My sentiments exactly. I mean, Aral had to go at some point, because the ultimate "worst thing" for Miles is to become Count Vorkosigan. But to put it at the end of the book??? That's just Wrong, in the most Ivanian sense of the term.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Of course Aral had to go, eventually, but I think Aral deserves to go on-screen. There's probably a lot of us who would never have become devoted LMB fans if it weren't for Cordelia and Aral. Miles, himself, wouldn't have won me over.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I'm not among those (I think of Aral as the hero's father, not as the hero himself, even though he is), but I agree with you about what Aral deserves.

I'm just grateful that his scenes in the rest of the series aren't overshadowed by this. I was afraid that they might be for me.

Wonderful and incredibly appropriate icon, BTW.