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reviewed Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)

Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice (Paperback, 2013, Orbit Books) 4 stars

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …

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4 stars

Wow. This book make my head bend a bit.

Well written, well read, but complex. The idea of gender neutrality even when there were genders that did exist caused me some grief. Not too bad but when you make an assumption on who or what character you are reading, then hear its a different gender you have to re-role the character and ask a lot of questions from bias to motives. Neat twist though, but beware on some of the difficult tracking it.

Reading a core narrator who has access to lots of sensory data and can toggle between them each paragraph made for some brilliance. It also made me not drift away or multitask while reading or I was sure to get confused and had to re-read. hehe.

Well put together plot as well, not something you see every day and the complexities of it can keep you thinking long after you put the book down.