This was such a refreshing read. I loved Leckie’s Radch trilogy, so it was great to return to that world and Leckie’s style of story.

I enjoyed the peak into the Presger translator world, and Qven’s identity conflict. Reet’s story was also engaging, and his search for belonging was well done. Enae felt like the least necessary POV - hir past sounded interesting to me, but where we pick up the story with hir is less so. Sie’s kind of peripheral to Qven and Reet in the end.

I got kind of lost in all the characters once we get to the committee piece. I couldn’t remember well who was who and where their interests lay. But I found the battle over species identity a fascinating one. My experience with committees makes it hard for me to believe one could be so on task like this, though