It was to layed back.
I have read and followed Lois McMasters Bujold many books and have enjoyed everyone. But this book takes Miles' profile and twist it in another direction. In all the authors other books about Mies Vorkosigan, though his love life is there it does not affect his focus on the promblem and he would not sit there and feel sorry for himself while others did the work for him. As to Ekaterin; any women worth her salt and especially a Vor would not meekly accept her Husband malady and son's disease so passively as she did. Overall this is one book unlike the authors other books that I would not read again and again.