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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

Ann Leckie

Start date: June 1, 2014

Finish date: August 31, 2014

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May 19, 2014 Martini rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: z-challenge-lies-mich-2015, borrowed, science-fiction, series-complete-finished, female-protagonists, female-author, tawites-recommendations

Four stars for the story and one extra star for the translator, who did an awesome job, since translating this one from English to German must have been quite difficult.
I am not going to address the story itself; there are enough reviews that have done this. Instead, I have some other things to get off my chest, especially regarding the translation and certain aspects of gender related grammar. The book has a foreword by the translator which addresses some of the points I am referring to.
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Apr 10, 2017 Steelwhisper rated it did not like it

Shelves: hero-heroine-tstl, science-fiction, feminism, 1-bad, pretentious-prose, caution-hype, mary-sue-marty-stu

There are a lot of excellent reviews out there about the lack of an engaging plot, the gimmick of having just a female pronoun, or the problems of the structure. Go read them, because all I have to say at the end of it is that this is an expression of precisely the kind of artsy-fartsy feminism which has completely, but oh so entirely lost me. The pretentiousness of this is downright killing me. But then again, yes, me and prize winning novels... duh.

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