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

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

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

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3 stars

The book is an interesting piece of sci-fi. It's nighter the best nor the worst. It explores interesting concepts like multiple bodies, a society without gender, AI and galactic imperialism. All are explored in an intriguing way, that makes my thoughts explore the concepts deeper.

As for criticism, the book is quite a though read, it jumps in time quite a lot and the main character has multiple bodies that are quite hard to keep track of. This also makes the narrative quite hard to follow as I wasn't always knowing where and when the scene was taking place. Some form of indication maybe a location and time signifier in the beginning of the chapter would be nice. And even so the story is sadly not the best, it seems to me and I might have misunderstood to be a quite generic revenge story.

To summarise, this book explores multiple very interesting concepts that makes the book worth the read, even if it's quite a sprawling and not very interesting narrative. I would recommend people interested reading Ursula Le Guins: Left Hand of Darkness first but still I'm not glad I read Ancillary Justice and despite it's flaws look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.