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Lymond write-up: https://hamsterwoman.dreamwidth.org/2017/08/29/

So at least he's literally any amount of fallible.

Yeah, I did like Lymond better by the end of the book than at the beginning, and that was a big part of it -- that you get to see him be fallible. I vaguely remember liking Christian also.

(I remember hearing from someone that Miles Vorkosigan is supposed to be a Lymond Expy, and I sort of see how that lineage goes, but it is definitely Miles's very evident fallibility that makes me like him, and that was missing with Lymond for most of the book.

The thing is when it later comes out he was pretending at all, she doesn't know he wasn't pretending THE WHOLE TIME--from her perspective this too is part of the fake-

Nod, yeah, that stands whether he was pretending on that particular occasion or not, I think.

I think it is mostly not the kind of book to go into that kind of depth for the "bad" guy, or maybe it's just lacking perspective, but honestly it left a bitter taste in my mouth.

There seem to be quite a lot of books these days where the book thinks it's presenting a clear Good Guys vs Bad Guys scenario, and yet there's some unintended implications which are highly questionable, that the book is not at all interested in examining, and that drives me nuts!

My sibling and sibling-in-law have moved in downstairs from them, which I think is helping,

I'm sure that does help a lot! (and hopefully is not too hard on your sibling and S-I-L). That sufficed for a while with my grandparents, or rather the reverse -- during the worst of Covid, my mother moved my grandparents into the in-law apartment in their house -- but the knock-on effect of that was that she never got a break, when they got to the point where they couldn't be left on their own, and it was a relief when they moved back to their own apartment with a live-in caretaker.

Anyway, wishing your grandparents all the best!

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