I wanted to like this book more but, really some parts felt like I was reading a word salad. Like the descriptions always wanted you to read into them and, I'm not really good at that sometimes. Also it has the "Too Much Too Fast" disease where it's tossing names at you left and right and expecting ...
I´m not an avid reader of Science Fiction but when I do read a Science Fiction book, I´m always glad if it strikes a chord with me. And Ann Leckie´s Ancillary Justice certainly made an impression on me. The first half of the book the chapters are alternating between the present day, where Breq is ...
I didn’t like this book. I know it’s won a ton of prestigious awards and has many glorious reviews, so my negative opinion isn’t likely to damage its reputation. That’s why I feel free to rant. Here is what I didn’t like and why. The story structure The story is told in two timelines simultaneousl...
This novel won most of the major science fiction awards a couple of years ago, and is a very curious novel. I don't believe I've ever read a novel narrated by a spaceship AI before. Also, there are some interesting things going on with gendered pronouns - "she" is the default, and it can be hard...
Ancillary Justice has been on my TBR for a while, because books with prominent AI characters that aren't evil are my catnip. Then the whole thing with the Sad Puppies and the Hugo Awards blew up. Ancillary Justice was one of two works that kept coming up again and again as one of the works most hate...
On a random note, I finally figured out who Breq reminded me of - Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell - an androgynous AI. I found myself visualising the shifting perspectives and the setting as I would a pensive scifi anime. I need to re-read for a closer understanding of the politics but I lov...
I've been having a hell of a time deciding what I want to say about this book, and how I want to rate it. I'm still not certain, even after a good discussion with my book club and talking to a few friends. It's just one of those reads that ends up being very complicated for me to sort out my thought...
A definite favorite. The things that Leckie does with POV are interesting and the question of identity and self that the first-person-(semi)omniscient brings up are brilliant. The 1PO perspective is slightly reminiscent of some detective fiction (e.g. Tyler Dilts' narrator, Detective Beckett, who so...
I wanted to read a space opera and thought, why not the Hugo and Nebula award-winning ANCILLARY JUSTICE. I read it rather slowly, with a break of 2-3 weeks somewhere in the middle. In retrospect, because of the book's accolades I certainly went in with high expectations. While I enjoyed the first pe...
I read this engrossing, unsettling short story as the first step of my holiday refresher re-read of the rich, complex, mind-bending, Ancillary Justice in preparation for the joyful tackling of its sequel Ancillary Sword.I found the story on Tor.com, it doesn't seem to be available on Amazon or anywh...
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