![]() ![]() ![]() The second one, Ancillary Sword, didn’t quite have the same magic and did that thing that sequels have often done and often done badly: raised the stakes exponentially without raising the emotion or the drama. ![]() The first book in this trilogy – Ancillary Justice – was brilliant and exactly that: a dual-timelined masterpiece that neatly wove narrative twists, high stakes, questions about sentience and explorations of disconnectedness into a cracking piece of science fiction high adventure. I picked it because, as you can imagine, the holidays are not a great time for me (I lack sufficient people in my life to make any supposedly group or community geared experience hold anything but sorrow #boohoohoo) and I wanted to read something exciting, something frothy, something not too demanding and something that would keep me nicely distracted from the fact that I don’t really exist in any meaningful way. I read this book – the finale of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy, over Christmas. ![]()
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