Mira’s Last Dance (Penric & Desdemona, book 5) by Lois McMaster Bujold

[james_davis_nicoll]

Mira’s Last Dance (Penric & Desdemona, book 5) by Lois McMaster Bujold

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[jesuswasbatman]

Shouldn't that be Power Perversion Potential?

[mindstalk]

"I’m also wondering why Bujold seems to have a thing for widowed love interests "

Aral was also a widowed love interest for Cordelia; Cordelia herself was just betrayed, but still not a "first love".

Ista is widowed but she's also the main character, not a love interest for the main character.

Dag was widowed, Fawn wasn't. Neither Ingrey or Ijada were widowed, nor Cazaril and obviously Beatriz. The lovers of the Spirit Ring weren't widowed.

Aral dying first was a nearly inevitable consequence of his marriage with Cordelia, who was both younger and genetically longer-lived. I doubt Lois wrote her very first book planning to set up "widowed Cordelia" decades later.

Is this the thing where decent minority representation becomes "a thing" to be explained?

[scott_sanford]

Don't forget Ninjette from the Empowered series, whose impersonation skills got her through someone else's wedding night disguised as the groom.