Provenance is the last book I had to read in the Imperial Radch universe. I almost didn't listen to it until someone told me so, because when I first hit play, it seemed quite unrelated). For the most part, it is unrelated to the main trilogy, though events are alluded to in parallel.

It's a good book, with the worldbuilding charm of the other Imperial Radch books. It's a fun, amusing, and dramatic adventure. I think there are the groundworks for this to be a prison abolition movement, though the book never quite gets there.

Ultimately, I found the twists and turns a little too predictable to be impressed. Characters do what I expect early and later on what I expect them to do, with a level of privilege and immaturity I don't have sympathy for. I usually like how things all thread together by coincidental relations by the end of the book, but at this point, I was tired of it. Some things felt too forced, too unfortunate, too tokenized. It feels more juvenile than the main series or Translation State.