Shards of Honor was written in 1986, and is solidly within the romance novel genre, but with some twists. The averaged grade comes to a B+ but that's a C+ for Shards and an A+ for Barrayar.

For formatting purposes I have to pick one grade for the whole Omnibus instead of grading each book separately. Rest assured that both novels are available as stand alones and work as such. So I'm now going to review both books since they are in my mind as a unit. I planned to review it as a stand alone novel, which is how it was originally published, but I ended up with an Omnibus edition that pairs Shards of Honor with a later novel about the same couple: Barrayar. Yay, you're back! Wasn't that great? So anyway, Bujold has written a vast number of novels in many different genres, and I wanted to review her first book, which is also a romance: Shards of Honor. If you haven't read it yet, stop reading this right now and go read it. I'm not writing a full review of that particular book because so many people have read it already – in fact I discovered it thanks to a comment thread on this very site. ( A | BN | K | S | iB) A Civil Campaign is a Regency Romance set in space, with manners, fantastic clothes, and awkward dinner parties mixed with cloning, recovery from physical and mental trauma, inter-galactic politics, humor, sadness, glowing HEAs, and much more. Lois McMaster Bujold wrote what is quite possibly the most famous, beloved, and awesome science fiction romance ever, A Civil Campaign.

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