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Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
3.0

That was the ending? Really? It felt more like a cliffhanger (well not quite), maybe a better book two than the real book two (which had seemed, I'd hoped, like a placeholder to get to the interesting stuff in book three).

Book three does get more interesting, but what I wanted more of, what book 1 drew me in with the ideas around distributed personalities. But we only see that from Breq in it's absence, and Anander Mianai is hardly around (though more than book 2). And in the end we learn something tantalizing about her that I really wanted to hear more about.

Then's the ghost gate and the ship on the other side. Plenty of interesting potential there, not of it fulfilled.