I want to be Cordelia Vorkosigan when I grow up...: I'm probably an aberration among Vorkosigan fans, but I very much prefer the books that focus on the characters as adults, rather than the hyperactive young Miles. Shards of Honor, Barrayar, Memory, Komarr, A Civil Campaign and now Diplomatic Immunity have characters that solve their problems with grace and intelligence, rather than relying on the sheer adrenaline of Miles on the road with the Dendarii mercenaries.

Diplomatic Immunity has the feel of an ending of sorts for the series. We see the Quaddies as a mature and developed culture, rich with the arts and sciences, Bel as settled and happy, rather than the hopeless crush it held for Miles for so long, and Miles himself as focused on solving the problem, without the desire to escape from himself. Even the Cetagandan Haut are more approachable and human.

I would dearly enjoy more Vorkosigan series, but this book leaves me satisfied to know that the characters I've followed for so long are in a good place for the moment.

And if another book is in the works, I'd like more Cordelia stories, please! There have been hints of the family's adventures during the Regency, and she was clearly instrumental in the transformation of Barrayan culture, so that I'd love to know what happened in the missing years.

Least interesting of Bujold's novels I've read yet. The Miles Vorkosigan series started going down after Mirror Dance - I only liked Civil Campaign because of Mark, and he wasn't in this one. No decent supporting characters at all, actually.It was just basically a science fiction space procedural mystery - not my favourite kind of mystery at all. I like her books for the characters, not the threats to the galaxy. No character development, just Miles being his superheroic ultracompentant self. I don't like characters who are that improbably skilled. ( )

A fun, sometimes funny, military science fiction. Good character development and, even though it's part of a long-ish series, the story presented in this book is resolved within this book - not always the case in some sci-fi series.

Although enjoyable - I liked seeing Miles as an adult married man - this book suffers from Miles not being as sharp as usual. I still can't believe that I worked out the key plot point long, long before Miles did... ( )

Miles and Ekaterina are returning from their honeymoon when the Imperial Auditor’s presence is required to figure out a mess on Graf Station in Quaddiespace. Miles’ adventures are turning into mystery/ space opera/ political intrigue as he has to figure out who did what and why and before everything blows up in his face. In this book he has Bel Thorne, a former Dendarii Mercenary, to back him up and Cetagandan replicators and a crazy Cetagandan holding everybody hostage and threatening everyone with a nasty poison that, oh by the way, Miles managed to get himself infected with. But Miles and Ekaterin have twin babies to take out of replicators back on Barrayar. How many more years before the next book? Miles’ new wife Ekaterin says this to him:
"If you die out here, I will not be grieved, I will be pissed. You’re the man who used to rescue hostages for a living. You are not allowed to not get out of this one. Are you listening to me, Miles Vorkosigan? Don’t you dare die! I won’t have it!" ( )