2020 book 131

Lois McMaster Bujold’s Knife Children
You’d think I’d have loved this one, as pretty much nothing happens except characters hanging out and learning to get along. But it centers on a secondary character from the last two books who isn’t particularly interesting, and what happens when he finds out his illegitimate daughter has run away AND developed powers. But it is just him getting into dad mode, and I found the bits of her story much more compelling (let me see her hanging out with horse girls!). Like you don’t get to be proud papa to a kid you didn’t acknowledge or raise for 14 years? It just ends up very treacly. Bummer. B.