Hee! I like your husband's description. Admittedly there is a disturbing element to the romance -- how many romances do you know of where the hero is literally terrified of the heroine, and with good reason? But fortunately Turner supplies some backstory about Gen's feelings and the reasons for them that have nothing to do with the loss of his hand, and that makes things a little better.
It's still disturbing, though, I will admit. Even now I wonder if I might be a little skewed to like the romance as much as I do, considering.
As for the change of career following a major injury, I'd already been through that with Miles Vorkosigan and it didn't make me like him any less (in fact I enjoyed him more in his new career), so I actually looked forward to that bit. To me it deepened the series and Gen's character to have him learning new skills and stealing less tangible goods, so to speak.
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Date: 2007-07-09 10:26 pm (UTC)It's still disturbing, though, I will admit. Even now I wonder if I might be a little skewed to like the romance as much as I do, considering.
As for the change of career following a major injury, I'd already been through that with Miles Vorkosigan and it didn't make me like him any less (in fact I enjoyed him more in his new career), so I actually looked forward to that bit. To me it deepened the series and Gen's character to have him learning new skills and stealing less tangible goods, so to speak.