Sorry, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction, Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards Ancillary Justice, it must be me and not you, but I just couldn't finish it. I only made it to page 67, but I still hadn't the slightest idea what was going on. It doesn't seem like a book made for reading a chapter every other day and so by the time I got back to it, I completely lost whatever thread I was following and just couldn't ever get back on track.

The other problem with the book, besides the confusing narration and the utterly incomprehensible tech (I'm still not sure what an Ancillary is), is that it relies heavily on descriptions of how people feel and react to what others are saying. So someone will be described as embarrassed, or angry or taken aback by what another character just said but I don't have any idea why. So either they are being far too subtle for me, or it's something I should have picked up on, but in either case, it is very frustrating.

So life is short and my To Read shelf is over 800 books, so I'm not forging on, despite its accolades.