Review: Komarr

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I may be suffering a bit from reading these all in a row but...

It must be difficult for Miles, that he falls madly in love with every single female whom he so much as catches a glimpse of across a crowded room. It might be more convincing if he didn't, you know, fall madly in love with every single one. And keep harping on about how few women there are on his planet, and how much he needs one. Any one, apparently. I _want_ him to be a sympathetic character, because he otherwise _feels_ like a sympathetic character. But honestly, his creepy stalking of the married woman - who does not, given, appear happy in her life at the beginning of this story, but who nonetheless gives not the least hint of being interested in him or wanting his help to change it - really makes him out to be kind of a jerk.

The rest of the story was a fun sort of what-if crossed with a police procedural, and Katerina is an interesting character, when she gets away from Miles long enough to come into her own.

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