Finally I got my hands on the third and final installment in the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie. I wrote about the first two novels here, today I’ll delve deeper into the grand finale. Although “grand” might not be the most appropriate word…
The first book, Ancillary Justice, was great. Intriguing, mysterious, deeply engaging. A tragedy hidden beneath the flurry of clandestine activities of Breq – a mysterious, powerful stranger living in a world like no other, filled with intelligent AIs, memories of terrible genocides, slavery, sentient alien races and a multi-person evil emperor. Sounds cool or what?
The second part, Ancillary Sword, was not so good, but still decent enough to give me hopes for the third installment. Since it was supposed to be a trilogy, and no change of plans had been announced, I waited to see the grand resolution of the multiple story arcs, all converging in the overarching conflict between Breq and Anaander Mianaai. Unfortunately, I waited in vain.