Ancillary Sword

I feel REALLY conflicted about this book. I enjoyed it through and through, but it was slow as hell and there really isn't much payoff to the many story threads.

I'll probably read the third in the series because I love the world that Leckie has created, but this book was a swing and a miss for me.

Random thoughts:

- A main protagonist I liked is still around but... Wasn't really used in the plot much at all?

- This book is all about how imperialism is bad but it also leans on the “white saviour” trope HEAVILY. Braq is just too perfect and solves everyone's problems. Blah.

- What was the point of this book? It really felt like a long setup for a final chapter in the trilogy.

- I honestly like all the tea drinking and politics but it's a bit much at times.

- “Baby lieutenants” are aborable little imperialists.