A review by katebrarian
The Liberation by Ian Tregillis

5.0

I liked this one more than the second one, though I did miss Hugo. I agree with most of the negative reviews that macguffins abound and the ending was much too tidy, but there's just something about the writing and the world and the characters that makes me really not care about that. I love Berenice, I love watching her spectacular fuck-ups. I liked seeing things from Anastasia's perspective. I definitely have some biological bias because all the descriptions in this series of human beings with pineal glass implanted in their brains, with their free will stripped away and the pain of geasa on their faces, really made me feel sick. Even knowing that the clakkers have consciousness, are people, I couldn't muster the same sort of empathy for them. Hopefully our future robot overlords will forgive my fleshy brain for such things.