Provenance
Ratings86
Average rating3.7
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Ratings86
Average rating3.7
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people: she must free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
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3 primary books4 released booksImperial Radch is a 4-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Ann Leckie.
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I quite enjoy it when authors take you into there previously established worlds from another angle. Ann Leckie is doing exactly that in Provenance. Here we enter the universe that was established in the original Imperial Radch trilogy, but we have new characters, new worlds, new politics. The events told previously are obliquely referenced and seem to be occurring somewhat concurrently, but we follow the goings on in a minor backwater system with its own petty squabbles on a different scale.
Here we follow Ingray, minor scion of an important family trying to secure her status and inheritance by rescuing a con artist from prison. But when she does so she ends up engaging the services of a captain running from a reclusive species and dragged into a conflict between her home world and one of its neighbours. Full of the same clever political machinations that typified the earlier Imperial Radch stories this is an intriguing companion novel. Separate but interlinked, sharing all the same DNA and telling a pretty enjoyable tale in the process
It was ok, but it it didn't thrill me. I can see how it's a good book and others may enjoy it, but for me the world didn't hold much interest.
A story with great ideas, yet told in a manner I found strangely flat and unengaging.
I've got to say, I did like the Geck Ambassador.
Free infamous thief
make friends with a secret one
fail to plan a heist.
