Ancillary Sword

eBook, 391 pages

English language

Published Oct. 11, 2014 by Orbit.

ISBN:: 978-0-316-24664-4

Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.

With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.

6 editions

jay reviewed Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #2)

3 stars

I found this a bit weaker than the first. Maybe because as a middle book in a series, the plot resolution wasn't as satisfying as in the first. Still, suspense and pacing were good.

Also I found the critique of colonialism a bit too on the nose, and even going wrong sometimes.

(I wish I had more to say about it, but I listened to this on low spoons/bad brain days.)

I found this a bit weaker than the first. Maybe because as a middle book in a series, the plot resolution wasn't as satisfying as in the first. Still, suspense and pacing were good.

Also I found the critique of colonialism a bit too on the nose, and even going wrong sometimes.

(I wish I had more to say about it, but I listened to this on low spoons/bad brain days.)

gabe. reviewed Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #2)

Way different from the first book, but still good

4 stars

While the first book had Justice of Torren right in the middle of all the action, this book has her in command of a ship and is much more focused on the political side of her character. I found it slower, but just as entertaining as the first.