I recommend it highly--if you can find it. The first few scenes made me think, "Oh no, not another feudal aristocracy in space," but it's much more. The ship--and galactic--society is so complex, much of it's left merely hinted at and the reader wants more. Fascinating universe and vivid, engaging characters. Also, neither they nor the story is predictable. :-)

What's Pearl about then? Presumably not a city-sized spaceship?

BTW I'm enjoying the Vorkosigan stories a lot, despite the rampant said-phobia (I really hate 'opined' 'intoned', 'allowed', and 'supplied' in particular). On their strength, I borrowed The Curse of Chalion but it's slow and plodding, the characters lack the vibrant life of the Vorverse ones, and the conversation is so stilted. Just because people lived in the past (OK, a fantasy feudal one) doesn't mean they didn't speak colloquially. Have you read that?