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I'm not a big reader of series. Generally, I find that if a first book is a success, authors try to recreate that success by duplicating the beats of the first novel. Or worse, authors that use a second book in a trilogy entirely to set up a third. There are exceptions, of course: series that invent and reinvent themselves as they go along. Series with greater ambitions and a strong structure, like Vandermeer's Southern Reach or Jo Walton's small change.
As much as I loved Ancillary Justice, I di ...more
As much as I loved Ancillary Justice, I di ...more
Breq survived her quest for vengeance against the tyrant who ordered her beloved Lieutenant Awn's death, but now the tyrant knows of her existence--and plans to make use of her. Breq is given a new ship and crew and sent to make sense of a troubled planet of tea plantations. Breq has become more accustomed to acting as a single human body (as opposed to her thousands of years of being the AI controlling a ship and its corpse-bodied crew) but still takes a distinctly alien approach to dealing wit
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I didn’t like this as much as the first book, I think. It has a completely different focus to the first book, a much more domestic one, and I was expecting something different the whole time. The focus is much more on society in the Radch, rather than the issues of identity that were at work in the first book with Breq’s separation from the Justice of Toren, and the Anaander Mianaai issue. It’s an exploration of more of the world than we saw in the first book, and I really liked that once I got
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Ancillary Sword picks up almost immediately after Ancillary Justice ends. Breq, kind of forcibly adopted into the house of tyrant Anander Mianaai, is sent by said tyrant to Athoek Station. Anander wants Breq to look for signs of the other Anander’s influence in the system; Breq just wants to protect the surviving family member of a lieutenant she once knew when she was Justice of Toren.
The specifics aren’t really important here, and you can read Ancillary Sword without reading the first book (th ...more
The specifics aren’t really important here, and you can read Ancillary Sword without reading the first book (th ...more
Just as brilliant, mind-bending, and paradigm busting as its predecessor Ancillary Justice (my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ), this second book of the trilogy has a social justice theme running through it that felt heavy handed to me at times and a main character who came a little too close to being an AI version of an all perfect Mary Sue, but the sophisticated world building, can’t-put-it-down storyline, and diverse, well developed characters kept me enthralled. I loved the
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A worthy follow up to last year's remarkable Ancillary Justice. Leckie's concerns about individuality and privacy are still in place, although in this novel the story is more centered around economic injustice. Gender issues aren't front and center as in Justice but still underpin the entire story. Anxiously waiting for the third book.
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Jul 16, 2014
~Geektastic~
marked it as definitely-interested
Oct 22, 2014
Eric
marked it as to-read
Dec 04, 2014
Richard
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Jan 05, 2016
Maria
marked it as to-read
Oct 02, 2016
Eric
marked it as to-read
