Provenance

Hmmmmm I dunno. I liked the Imperial Radch trilogy so much but this one was just kinda meh. Aside from nb folks / gender-neutral pronouns being a thing (cool!) and taking place in the same universe as the prior trilogy, I found the political nuances hard to follow, the plot meandering, and the main character an annoyingly passive nothing (she seriously spends the whole book crying a lot and saying/doing things without realizing she was about to say/do them, but then the things always turn out to be the right things to have said/done, which as a narrative trick gets old pretty fast). It's hard to stay interested in someone who lets the whole story pretty much happen to them and can't really explain/examine their own motives for things.