Teleseparatist's Reviews > Winterfair Gifts

Sadly, for a novella filling in a very important moment in Miles's story, this felt quite skippable. The entire mystery plot was flimsy and pasted in. Roic's storyline with Taura was sort of whatever. The relevant part, i.e. wedding, was given from a point of view that, in my opinion, offered less humour or insight than I'd have expected.

Some characters whose POV on Miles's wedding I'd rather have read, in no particular order:

Cordelia (down to Earth Barrayar and sensible but not without a sense of irony)
Aral (affecting calm but internally half-overjoyed and half-terrified that something might GO WRONG)
Taura (inappropriate at times)
Elli (biting and inappropriate and a little bitter but ultimately well-wishing)
Gregor (marriage is contagious! spread the love! who else could get married? everyone should!)
Ivan (full-fledged panic and being terrorised by everyone around)
Alys (no hostages taken, showing no mercy)
Ghost of Count Piotr Vorkosigan (well that almost makes up for that one time Miles failed at something)
Mark (probably taunting Miles until Lady Alys threatens him)
Ethan (I don't know how that would work, but his sincere interest in the weirdness of heterosexuality could be fun)
Ekaterin (she does have a stake in the proceedings after all)
Miles (probably)

Characters whose POV would probably be less interesting than Roic's:
Butter bugs (mostly interested in obtaining organic matter and devouring it)