ancillary justice read: ch.1
Jan. 8th, 2020 04:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turgidwouldI was gonna mention the book's interesting-but-so-far-ambiguous treatment of gender as something that stood out, right up until I got to the last moment of the chapter, and by extension, the first sentences of the second.
And then I flipped the book over to read the blurb on the back cover. When a book gets recommended/gifted to me, I actively try to avoid back cover/dust jacket material, and that seems to have worked out for me in this case, because I had no idea the POV character was a starship AI in a human body.
Anyway, the narrator is interesting:
Seivarden Vendaai was no concern of mine anymore, wasn't my responsibility. And she had never been one of my favorite officers. [...] I had no reason to think badly of her. [...] But I had never particularly cared for her.
But then they spend a lot of money getting her food and medication. Dragging her inside from the cold. And so on.
And then I flipped the book over to read the blurb on the back cover. When a book gets recommended/gifted to me, I actively try to avoid back cover/dust jacket material, and that seems to have worked out for me in this case, because I had no idea the POV character was a starship AI in a human body.
Anyway, the narrator is interesting:
Seivarden Vendaai was no concern of mine anymore, wasn't my responsibility. And she had never been one of my favorite officers. [...] I had no reason to think badly of her. [...] But I had never particularly cared for her.
But then they spend a lot of money getting her food and medication. Dragging her inside from the cold. And so on.
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Date: 2020-01-08 11:35 am (UTC)Right? There’s what she says, and there’s what she does, and there’s this big distance between those two things. It’s so fascinating.