Wednesday, October 18, 2017

2017 book 181

Ann Leckie's Provenance 
I enjoyed Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy, and so was eager to read another book set in that universe, but I found this was slightly underwhelming. The characters were all really interesting, I just wish there had been more going on in the plot. There are plans, and counter plans, and political shenanigans, and everyone is obsessed with “vestiges,” which basically seem to be historical ephemera (you would think as someone trained as a librarian, this would be up my alley! But it was just endless). The story picks up in the last third and I liked how it wrapped up a lot, it was just a bit of a slog to get to that point. B/B+.

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