I’m not sure how this review is going to go. It may just turn into incoherent rambling and sobbing. Ancillary Justice introduces a vast empire through the life of a spaceship now contained to a single person and bent on an impossible revenge. Ancillary Sword, rather than up the stakes, deepens the...
Writing a sequel that doesn't bewilder newcomers or people who haven't picked up the previous book in a while is always hard. It's not easy, but it can be done well. This wasn't one of those cases. Furthermore, imho a sense of suspense cannot be maintained by leaving crucial information out by cutti...
Just as brilliant, mind-bending, and paradigm busting as its predecessor Ancillary Justice (my review here ), this second book of the trilogy has a social justice theme running through it that felt heavy handed to me at times and a main character who came a little too close to being an AI version of...
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...
Last year I read and loved Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, and felt very smug and vindicated when it ended up winning almost every science fiction award there is, including the Hugo for Best Novel. (Which is silly since I had nothing to do with it, but shows you my level of investment.) But someti...
It would be hard to live up to the first book of this series. It was something so different and exciting and with the awards and hype...it would have been easy to fail to live up to everyone's expectation. But I think this second book was almost as good as the first one. While it had less physical...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
