hardcover, 448 pages
English language
Published by Orbit.
Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright.
A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world, before they are lost to her for good.
Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright.
A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world, before they are lost to her for good.
I got hung up on the murder mystery plot, which is not my jam. I dug some of the cultural interactions and really appreciated the ease and casualness that Leckie included e/eir pronouns for people beyond the binary.
I completely enjoyed this book that is set in a different part of Ann Leckie's Ancillary universe. The tone and energy is nothing like the tone and energy in the Ancillary stories. But like those books, it is fun.
I liked:
- how different human cultures really can't understand each other and how the aliens are even less understandable than the humans;
- how likable various characters were; and
- the way gender and sexual orientation is treated.
I completely enjoyed this book that is set in a different part of Ann Leckie's Ancillary universe. The tone and energy is nothing like the tone and energy in the Ancillary stories. But like those books, it is fun.
I liked:
- how different human cultures really can't understand each other and how the aliens are even less understandable than the humans;
- how likable various characters were; and
- the way gender and sexual orientation is treated.
