Penric & Desdemona (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Bujold is a bit hit or miss for me, especially her fantasy, and even in the Vorkosigan series, which I do love, some of the books I adore and some I didn't even finish. So the Penric books were sort of vaguely on my radar, but from what I knew about the series (featuring a young man who body-shares with a female demon and solves mysteries), it looked like it was probably not going to engage me all that much.

However, nobody told me there was an enemies-to-friends arc in this. I was unprepared and I have now read 4 of the novellas in about 2 days. At least they're short.

I did not start reading because of that; I started because I ran across a book review for one of the recent ones that said it worked pretty well as a standalone, so I decided that maybe, rather than starting at the beginning, I would read a recent book and see what I thought about it. The Assassins of Thasalon looked interesting from the blurb, so I picked up that one.

( Details and kinda spoilery mini-reviews of 4 books )