OK I have finished reading the trilogy that I started a while ago. I don’t usually bother reviewing anything on the website but in this case, I’m going to make an exception. I have given all 3 books a 5-star rating on Goodreads & Amazon. I didn’t bother with a review because the author already has over 18,000 reviews just on Book 1.
I fell in love with Ann’s characters in these novels, even the prickly ones. In case you’ve forgotten the plot from my initial post, the troop ship Justice of Toren was destroyed nearly 20 years ago, after a career spanning over two thousand years. Only one part of her remains, an ancillary unit or “corpse soldier,” artificially enhanced to perform as a mobile part of the ship. One Esk Nineteen knows exactly what happened to the ship, and she wants revenge.
The various characters throughout the book include a drug-addicted ship’s captain who once served on Justice of Toren before being frozen in an escape pod for a thousand years, a green lieutenant who probably isn’t what she seems, an alien diplomat who enjoys eating more than almost anything else, and the ancillary unit of another ship that has been lost in another dimension for longer than Justice of Toren has been alive. The ancillary, Breq, finds herself leaping from frying pan to frying pan to frying pan, even though she tells herself she doesn’t care if she lives or dies. Somehow, things just seem to work out in the end. But what happens when the emperor of all Radch space shows up on the space station they’re guarding, looking for the ancillary that has been destroying her clones?
If you like hard sci-fi, with sentient spaceships and space stations, aliens, battles, and lots of unspoken backstory, you’ll love these books. Get a copy of Ancillary Justice and get started!
