If you're willing to work a little, this book is absolutely worth your time.Īnn Leckie's series drops us right into a universe both familiar and terrifyingly different. I've already ordered the sequel, so I can see where the next piece of story leads. That's a rare thing in books these days.Īnd I love it. Nope, this is a novel that leave you to make up your own mind about things. It's going to drop you in the middle of the story and let you figure out what the hell is going on by yourself, no long explanations of how the culture developed because of blah blah blah. I love it when I run into something fresh and new. I've read a fair chuck of sci-fi, but I've never run into anything like this before. But what really makes this book great are the big *cultural* differences in the world. Making me think in different directions than I'm used to. I could feel it stretching my brain in ways it hasn't been stretched in a while. So in some ways, reading this book was like going home again. It's pretty much all I read for several years. When I was younger, I read sci-fi almost exclusively. For the most part, what's where my taste lies these days.īut that wasn't always the case. I don't review much sci-fi these days because I mostly read fantasy. I should mention here, it's Science Fiction. And as soon as I started it, I could see why it was getting such attention. This book caught my eye mostly because it's been winning just about every award ever this year.
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