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The Raven Tower
by Ann Leckie
After finishing this book I looked up Leckie’s biography to see if she had been a lawyer. As a regulatory lawyer who also works on contracts, the almost obsessive interest in the details of how the gods of this world interact with humans and each other felt very familiar. And I liked it! But I would venture to say that this book is not for everyone. There is a lot of minutiae and frankly not that much actually happens. Like in Ancillary Justice, the sections (I guess they’re not really chapters) of the book flip between the backstory of how a very powerful being saw it’s circumstances change and something of a quest in the present. Unlike AJ, I felt like there was too much of the history and it developed too slowly to be engaging. Eolo did remind me a fair amount of Breq, but ultimately I found him less compelling.
I feel like the world Leckie built here was tailor made to appeal to me, and it did, but the book didn’t do a whole lot more for me than build an interesting world. Definitely not going to be shoving this one into people’s hands the way I did with the Ancillary books.
I feel like the world Leckie built here was tailor made to appeal to me, and it did, but the book didn’t do a whole lot more for me than build an interesting world. Definitely not going to be shoving this one into people’s hands the way I did with the Ancillary books.