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Immensely satisfying
Well, I ended up quite enjoying this. I wasn't sure I would, partly because just from the summary I could tell it was one of those where they make up weird "alien" names that are hard to keep track of. But I pushed past that and really liked the world-building. I was particularly intrigued by the approach to gender of the Radch - with the main character defaulting to calling everyone "she", I really noticed my tendency to default to assuming people are male if their gender hasn't been specified.
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I’m rereading these because a new book set in this world is coming out soon! Plus they’re awesome! The central character here is a giant spaceship in the body of a human; once she was a big spaceship with all sorts of capabilities and a bunch of human bodies, but now this one is the last piece left. And she is on a QUEST. A quest that is complicated when she comes across a former officer on her ship who is on drugs a ...more
I loved this book.
Aug 21, 2013
keri.
marked it as to-read
Dec 04, 2014
Sharone
marked it as to-read
Mar 10, 2015
Andrea Crain
marked it as to-read
Jun 25, 2017
Flora
rated it
it was amazing
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