book review: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Overall opinion, scrubbed as spoiler-free as possible: positive! (I can't imagine that there is anyone in the world who cares about my recommendation in this case - either you like the Vorkosigan books and want to read this one, or you don't and you don't, or you're curious about them but are going to start in the right place which is certainly not here - but there it is.)

( major SPOILERS for Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and all other books of the Vorkosigan series - really seriously don't read this if you haven't finished CVA yet )