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Ann Leckie
An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy. Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingrid is determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She hatches an audacious plan -- free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a priceless artifact. But Ingray and her charge return to her home to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future and her world, before they are lost to her for good.
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Author
Ann Leckie
Pages
448
Publisher
Orbit
Published Date
2017-09-26
ISBN
0316388637 9780316388634
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I was a little hesitant to start this book because I haven't read any of the other Imperial Radch books, but I found that it stands pretty well on its own. I'm sure some of the references about what was going on in the wider universe probably have more meaning to people familiar with the series, but this book is still worth a read on its own.<br/><br/>It's a lovely exploration of family and identity, as well as history and what it means (the value of artifacts in terms of connecting people with their history as well as the possibility of having them subverted for political purposes was interesting to me as a museum professional). The characters are fun and Ingray is a great lead. It was fun to read about a relatively small moment, of little significance to a wider space opera setting, but so meaningful to the people caught up in it."
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