Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning
The first book in Palmer's Terra Ignota series is a doozy! It's a sci fi story set several hundred years in the future, and it also has a couple of different mysteries going on, and a LOT of political intrigue. The narrator is a man (though gender is hidden in this world and pronouns are used based more on societal role) who immediately confesses that he's a criminal, but his sentence was to be part of the servant class. He works for many of the world's leaders and so is witness to all sorts of politics. Also, there was a weird newspaper break-in, but who broke in, and why? And what did the narrator DO, exactly? Also, there's a mysterious little boy. ALSO, the narrator engages in a lot of conversations about 18th century Enlightenment thinkers (I personally could have done with less of this, as well as with less of the weird lewdness in the back half). OK, there is no good way for me to explain this book: it's very dense, and intense, and fascinating, and I can't wait to read the next one. A-.
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