Mira’s Last Dance: A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods
By Lois McMaster Bujold
Read by Grover Gardner
The Penric & Desdemona Series: Book 6
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In this sequel to the novella Penric’s Mission, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas. In the town of Sosie, the fugitive party encounters unexpected delays, and even more unexpected opportunities and hazards, as the courtesan Mira of Adria, one of the ten dead women whose imprints make up the personality of the chaos demon Desdemona, comes to the fore with her own special expertise.
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Summary
Summary
In this sequel to the novella Penric’s Mission, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas.
In the town of Sosie, the fugitive party encounters unexpected delays, and even more unexpected opportunities and hazards, as the courtesan Mira of Adria, one of the ten dead women whose imprints make up the personality of the chaos demon Desdemona, comes to the fore with her own special expertise.
Reviews
Reviews
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An amusing episode in Penric’s continuing story
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Note: Contains mild spoilers for the previous PENRIC novellas.
Mira’s Last Dance (2017) is a direct sequel to Penric’s Mission and, though the first two Penric novellas could stand alone, this one needs to be read after Penric’s Mission. At the end of that story, Penric and Desdemona were on the run with their new companions, Arisaydia, a blind general who Penric has been healing, and Nikys, the general’s widowed sister and a potential love interest for Penric. The group (I’m not sure whether to call them a trio or a quartet) is trying to sneak across the border so they’ll be out of the reach of the Arisaydia’s powerful enemies.
When they are in the most danger, they get some help from an unlikely source — Mira, one of Desdemona’s several personalities which she picked up from the women she has possessed over the past couple hundred years. Mira was a courtesan and her particular skills seem especially useful in this situation. However, Mira now inhabits the body of a young man, so she will have to get creative.
Mira’s Last Dance is an amusing story made even more entertaining by Bujold’s distinctive sense of humor and Grover Gardner’s excellent narration of Blackstone Audio’s 3.5 hour-long audio edition.
It’s clear that Penric’s story is not over (let’s hope not!) and we don’t get much sense of closure at the end of Mira’s Last Dance. Some readers may begrudge these short episodes we’re getting from Bujold, but I don’t. She’s 68 years old and has given us so much treasured literature over the last thirty-something years. I think she’s having fun writing these little stories and I’m happy to accept them in whatever form they come in.
Author
Author Bio: Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 she was named a Damon Knight Grand Master by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, one of science fiction’s highest honors. She has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award for her significant contribution to science fiction. Hugo awards for Best Series were received by the Vorkosigan Saga in 2017, and the World of the Five Gods in 2018.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Fantasy |
| Runtime: | 3.42 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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